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 ...

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.

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.

Key Features of Columnstore Indexes: Data Compression: By storing data by columns rather than rows, columnstore indexes can compress data more effectively, reducing storage costs and improving I/O ...

Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server 2014," will present the ins and outs of columnstore indexes, a feature introduced in SQL Server 2012. Unfortunately, the columnstore indexes feature has several ...

In SQL Server 2012, the columnstore indexes are non-clustered and cannot be updated other than by rebuilding the entire index. SQL Server 2014 introduces clustered columnstore indexes, which ...