Depending on its usage, a columnstore index may require no maintenance at all, infrequent maintenance, or regular maintenance to ensure optimal storage, resource consumption, and performance.
Understanding how and when to use index maintenance will ensure that analytic queries continue to perform well both when a columnstore index is first created and years into the future.
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