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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Extended T-SQL Collector includes a XEReader collector type that lets you collect data from Extended Events sessions. This is the easiest way around to save Extended Events to a table. SQL Server ...