Nov 22, 2024 · Learn about designing efficient indexes in SQL Server and Azure SQL to achieve good database and application performance. Read about index architecture and best practices.

Apr 9, 2025 · In this article, learn how to configure an indexer that imports content from Azure SQL Database or an Azure SQL managed instance and makes it searchable in Azure AI Search. This article supplements Create an indexer with information that's specific to Azure SQL.

Creates a relational index on a table or view. Also called a rowstore index because it is either a clustered or nonclustered B-tree index. You can create a rowstore index before there is data in the table.

Oct 26, 2021 · This article will explore automatic index advisor (CREATE_INDEX, DROP_INDEX) for Azure SQL Database. Introduction. Azure SQL Database enables its users to focus on database objects, tuning queries without managing the underlying infrastructure resources.

Nov 9, 2020 · If you cannot identify and monitor your indexes, you can let the Azure SQL database do index management for you, tune your database, and ensure that your data structures dynamically adapts to your workload.

We describe the challenges, architecture, design choices, implementation, and learnings from building an industrial-strength auto-indexing service for Microsoft Azure SQL Database, a relational data-base service.

Sep 23, 2016 · If you store your images in blobs, and reference them via URI in your database, you will be able to query against your database, find the image's URI, and then read from blob storage appropriately.

Apr 23, 2023 · First upload your image in blob storage. Then create external DataSource for that blob storage and insert the image from blob storage to Azure sql. Sample Code: WITH IDENTITY = 'SHARED ACCESS SIGNATURE', SECRET = 'SAS Token'; LOCATION = 'https://StorageAccountName.blob.core.windows.net' , CREDENTIAL= sampleblobcred1.

Jun 25, 2019 · This article provides an overview of indexing tables in Azure SQL database using Azure Automation and how to schedule indexing jobs to run at specific intervals. There are different ways to schedule jobs in Azure.

Feb 23, 2022 · We’ve recently updated the SQL Server and Azure SQL index architecture and design guide. This article is an in-depth guide to indexing in databases using the SQL Server engine, including SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and Azure Synapse Analytics.