First introduced in SQL Server 2012, columnstore indexes can give you major performance gains -- provided you have the right workloads. Here's how columnstore indexes work and what types of data ...

A nonclustered columnstore index enables real-time operational analytics where the OLTP workload uses the underlying clustered index while analytics run concurrently on the columnstore index.

New for SQL Server 2016 is the ability to place a Columnstore Index on an In-Memory Table.

Non-clustered Columnstore Indexes are also getting some enhancements in SQL Server 2016. The most notable of these enhancements is the ability to be updated.

SQL Server 2012’s ColumnStore Index stores data for columns you designate and then joins those database columns to give you a read-only, column-based index into the data (traditional indexes are ...

SQL Server 2012’s ColumnStore Index stores data for columns you designate and then joins those database columns to give you a read-only, column-based index into the data (traditional indexes are ...

Columnstore index recommendations in Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA) [!INCLUDE SQL Server] Data warehousing and analytic workloads can greatly benefit from columnstore indexes as well as ...

Microsoft announced the latest preview of its next-gen SQL Server product at Ignite. Here's a rundown of everything the new release promises, from performance enhancements to security and ...