Thus far, a compelling case has been presented to separate OLTP and OLAP workloads into unique data structures and optimize each for their respective use cases. Columnstore indexes are a SQL Server feature that provides native support for large analytic data. This chapter will dive into what they are and why they are an effective solution to analytic data challenges.
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