Ordered Clustered Columnstore Indexes for Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now in preview
Published date: May 08, 2019
Columnstore is a key enabler for storing and efficiently querying large amounts of data. For each table, it divides the incoming data into Row Groups and each column of a Row Group forms a Segment on a disk. Ordered clustered columnstore indexes further optimize query execution by enabling efficient segment elimination. For more information, see:
- CREATE TABLE (Azure SQL Data Warehouse)
- CREATE COLUMNSTORE INDEX (Transact-SQL).
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