Each compressed segment within a columnstore index not only stores analytic data, but through metadata can describe its contents with more precision than rowstore tables can.
This metadata resides in system views and allows SQL Server to make intelligent query processing decisions at runtime. This chapter dives into this metadata in detail, how SQL Server uses it, and how it can be used to improve the performance of columnstore indexes.
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