SQL Server 2012 includes a lot of new and exciting features. One feature that has caught the imagination of many in the user community is the high-performance feature called Columnstore Indexes.

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 ...

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

Non-clustered Columnstore Indexes (NCC Index) 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 ...

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 ...

Columnstore A second part of operational analytics is the columnstore index. Introduced with SQL Server 2012, you could create a columnstore index. A good start, but limitations held back usage.

In SQL Server 2012, Microsoft introduced the Non-Clustered Columnstore index which was perfectly designed for large Fact tables in a Data Warehouse and provided an order of magnitude performance ...