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New Course: “SQL Server 2012: Nonclustered Columnstore Indexes”

Yesterday Pluralsight published my new course, “SQL Server 2012: Nonclustered Columnstore Indexes”.

The intent behind this course was to provide a fast ramp-up on the aspects of this feature that you should consider when looking at whether or not this is a viable option for your SQL Server relational data warehouse workloads.  The course covers the nonclustered columnstore index feature fundamentals, batch-execution mode and segment elimination considerations, data modification techniques, and how to plan for deployment.

Even if you’re unsure of whether or not you’ll be using nonclustered columnstore indexes anytime soon, it is part of the database engine, so from a core SQL Server perspective it is a good idea to familiarize yourself with this topic. With vNext of SQL Server, Microsoft is introducing clustered columnstore indexes, so I think we’ll see a significant uptick in overall usage in the future. 

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