Convert a rowstore table to a clustered columnstore index or create a nonclustered columnstore index. Use a columnstore index to efficiently run real-time operational analytics on an OLTP workload or ...

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.

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Columnstore indexes are available in CTP 3 of SQL Server Code Name “Denali.” You can create a columnstore index on your table by using a slight variation on existing syntax for creating indexes.

In SQL Server 2012, we introduced the memory optimized columnstore index. This resulted in huge query performance improvements but columnstore indexes had one significant disadvantage – they couldn’t ...

SQL Server 2014 will offer Clustered Columnstore Indexes. These will offer the performance and compression benefits of column-oriented storage without the need to restrict the underlying table to ...

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.