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 ...

Microsoft’s proscriptive guidance provides a lot more detail about how much memory is needed to create a columnstore index on any given table and column. On the other hand, columnstore indexes are ...

What Are Index Key Columns? An index key column is the column used in the index, and it is what the optimizer considers when deciding if the index should be used. As well as fulfilling the WHERE ...