Convert a rowstore table to a clustered columnstore index, or create a nonclustered columnstore index. Use a columnstore index to efficiently run real-time operational analytics on an OLTP workload, ...

[!INCLUDE sql-asdb-asdbmi-asa-pdw] Convert a rowstore table to a clustered columnstore index or create a nonclustered columnstore index. Use a columnstore index to efficiently run real-time ...

In article number 19, I explained some of the options that are available in creating or altering an index and I gave a demo for some of them. In this article a want to introduce the rest of them.

In the previous articles, I explained Clustered and nonclustered indexes, in this article I want to compare costs(Execution plans) in these two types of indexes. To ...

In a SQL Server, two types of indexes exist; Clustered and non-clustered indexes. Both clustered indexes and non-clustered indexes have the same physical structure. Moreover, both of them are stored ...

Mary writes for the programming section and has been doing so for the past two years. Her educational background is in Computer Science and Physics. An index helps SQL Server retrieve data from rows ...

SQL Server 2014 CTP1 introduced hash indexes for memory-optimized tables. Hash indexes are very efficient for point lookups, when you know exactly the value you are looking for. However, they do not ...

Do you have a data warehouse? Do you wish your queries would run faster? If your answers are yes, check out the new columnstore index (aka Project “Apollo”) in SQL Server Code Name “Denali” today! SQL ...