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SQL Server 2012 includes a lot of new and exciting features. One feature that has caught the imagination of many in the user community is the high-performance feature called Columnstore Indexes.

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 ...

As with everything, there are trade-offs when it comes to indexes. That said, this discussion focuses on query optimi­zation by looking at table indexes or the lack thereof. A sign of a good database ...