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 ...

What this means is that the best execution plan for a parameter value of 1 or 2 would be for SQL Server to do an index seek operation against the SupplierID column (which happens to be indexed ...

When NULLs need to be considered, we've always been forced to include this additional IS NULL or IS NOT NULL syntax. This not only clutters T-SQL code, but forces the execution plan to use an index ...

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.