I have found the following link to be invaluable when working with and tuning SQL Server Spatial indexes:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb895265.aspx However, the link is not as clear as it could be about the Spatial index selections ...read more

Recently we got a customer who upgraded from SQL Server 2005 to 2008. But their performance degraded greatly. What happened was that they had an update query that was run many times in a batch. The query was submitted as ad hoc by the application with ...read more