Continuing the discussion on VLDBs and SQL Server we need to look at the daily load of millions of rows. As stated before, doing this to an existing table with indexes will force the system to do a ...
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Just to wrap up this week’s discussion on VLDBs we need to look at the new features of SQL Server 2008 as it improves the Data Partitioning features introduced in 2005. Let’s take a look. First of all ...
First introduced in SQL Server 2012, columnstore indexes can give you major performance gains -- provided you have the right workloads. Here's how columnstore indexes work and what types of data work ...