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Columnstore Index in SQL Server

May 28, 2014 by

Prerequisite

The discussion pertaining to SQL Server 2012 columnstore indexing is better explained through theoretical and practical measures. Thus, for the practical measure part – I will be using the AdventureWorksDW2012 sample database. The rest of the prerequisites for a comprehensive understanding of this topic are as follows:
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Milena Petrovic

Frequent query recompilations – a SQL query performance killer – detection

April 11, 2014 by
In the previous part of this article, we presented query recompilation basics. We explained when a query is compiled, when recompiled, and what preferred behavior is. We also showed the how to trigger a recompilation using T-SQL and provided examples. In this part, we will focus on detecting frequent query recompilations and frequently recompiled queries. Read more »