Technical documentation for Microsoft SQL Server, tools such as SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) , SQL Server Data Tools ... Unlike the distribution column, table partitions don't determine the ...

SQL Server 2012 introduced two innovations targeted for data warehousing workloads: column store indexes and batch (vectorized) processing mode. Together they greatly improve performance of typical ...

The data in a CCI is grouped and stored for every column in the table. Unlike the columnstore index, the CCI is the data – there is no other underlying data structure. (Short aside – this might be a ...

Additionally, users can create secondary indexes on partitioned column store tables. However, because these are local to each distribution and partition, implementing UNIQUE constraint is not an ...