Tag: clustered columnstore indexes

How to Create a Clustered Columnstore Index In my last post we looked at what are clustered columnstore indexes, their benefits and how they have changed in SQL Server 2014. Now, let’s learn how to create one.  Since we would like to make some performance measurements on a clustered columnstore index, we will use a sample […]

Clustered Columnstore Indexes – Enforcing Uniqueness and Creating Nonclustered Indexes We have seen that once a table has been physically implemented as a clustered columnstore index, further indexes are not supported. We shall now take a look at how to circumvent this limitation, albeit at the cost, perhaps substantial, of additional hard drive space. While […]

SQL Server Columnstore Indexes Columnstore indexes were introduced into SQL Server in 2012, but in a sense the columnstore index is older than that, since the fundamental structure was first used for the tabular storage model of Power Pivot (and then used in the Analysis Services tabular model). In SQL Server 2012, however, columnstore indexes were […]