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 ...

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I would probably create an index on each, and then add whatever columns they need to *return* from their search as "included columns." (covering indexes)<BR><BR>In other words, if they're going to ...

Hopefully the title isn't too confusing, but I'm having a hard time trying to describe what I'm trying to do. I have done running total calculations before on a set of data and haven't had too much ...