SQLServer

ColumnStore Segment Elimination

ColumnStore Indexes are great! They are a real performance booster for Data Warehousing and Reporting workloads. In combination with Clustered ColumnStore Indexes you get a huge compression benefit over regular RowStore Indexes (Clustered Indexes, Non-Clustered Indexes). And creating a Clustered ColumnStore Index is quite easy: CREATE CLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE INDEX ccsi ON TableName GO But is …

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Join the SQLBits Disco, and learn about Performance Troubleshooting

I’m delighted to announce that I have been chosen to present my precon about Practical SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting at SQLBits on April 6 in Telford/United Kingdom. As you might know I really enjoy talking about Performance Troubleshooting, because it’s one of my specialities. And I’m also already a veteran (with almost no hair left) …

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