Tips for designing SQL Server 2017 tables (Part 2) Use varchar/nvarchar columns instead of text/ntext columns whenever possible. Because SQL Server 2017 stores text/ntext columns on the Text/Image pages separately from the other data, stored on the Data pages, it can take more time to get the text/ntext values. If you need to store integer data from -32,768 through 32,767,...
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Some tips for designing SQL Server 2014 tables
Some tips for designing SQL Server 2014 tables Create the table’s columns as narrow as possible. This can reduce the table’s size and improve performance of your queries as well as some maintenance tasks (such as backup, restore and so on). Try to reduce the number of columns in a table. The fewer the number of columns in a table,...