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Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Unleashed
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Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Unleashed

by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1800 pages
70h 6m
English
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Queries Using Columnstore Indexes

xVelocity columnstore indexes, first introduced in SQL Server 2012, group and store data for each column in the table and then join all the columns to complete the whole index. This type of index differs from traditional indexes, which group and store data for each row of data and then join all the rows to complete the whole index. For certain types of queries, such as data warehousing types of queries that access large amounts of data, the SQL Server query processor can take advantage of the columnstore index to significantly improve query execution times.

When the optimizer identifies a columnstore index and generates a query plan that makes use of the columnstore index, you’ll see the Columnstore Index Scan ...

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