Columnstore Index

Considerations when tuning your queries with columnstore indexes on clone databases

As discussed in my previous blog post, one of the primary scenario for DBCC CLONEDATABASE is to assist dbas, developers and support teams in troubleshooting sub-optimal query plans by creating fast, minimally invasive and transaction ally consistent database clones of their production databases. The database clone created using DBCC CLONEDATABASE contains the copy of schema…

Columnstore Index | Performance

Columnstore Indexes and Statistics

Until the introduction of Columnstore indexes, most DBAs didn’t care much about the creation of statistics on the indexed columns as the statistics are auto created on the indexed columns when the index is created. With Auto Create Statistics turned ON for the database, the optimizer will automatically trigger the creation of statistics when it…