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Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 44 (“Monitoring with Extended Events”)

Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 44 (“Monitoring with Extended Events”)

Continuation from the previous 43 parts, starting from https://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ This post is dedicated to the monitoring aspects of the Columnstore Indexes, which should help you understanding what is going on with your production system. Columnstore Monitoring Options First of all…

Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 43 (“Transaction Log Basics”)

Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 43 (“Transaction Log Basics”)

Continuation from the previous 42 parts, starting from https://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ This post is dedicated to the Transaction Log behaviour, which might explain some of the behaviours of the Columnstore Indexes, observed in the earlier posts in the series. I decided to…

Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 42 (“Materialisation”)

Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 42 (“Materialisation”)

Continuation from the previous 41 parts, starting from https://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ Important Disclaimer – I have started writing this blog post over 1 months ago, but because of all engagements such as SQLSaturday Portugal, only today at night managed to finally finish…

Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 41 (“Statistics”)

Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 41 (“Statistics”)

Continuation from the previous 40 parts, starting from https://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ Note: This article is in’s 2nd version, after correcting comments done by Hugo Kornelis Since I have started writing & doing presentations on Columnstore Indexes there have been a number of…

Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 40 (“Compression Algorithms”)

Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 40 (“Compression Algorithms”)

Continuation from the previous 39 parts, starting from https://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ It’s time to take a look into the algorithms that Microsoft is using to compress Columnstore Indexes. I have presenting on this topic for quite some time and especially during Workshops…