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I am a Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence Architect, specializing in the SQL Server BI stack. I also am a DBA and have been for the last 15 years. I work for B.I. Voyage.-
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Category Archives: Project Apollo/Column-store indexes
SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Project Apollo/Columnstore Indexes
Project Apollo is a new feature in CTP3 of SQL Server 2012 (code name of “Denali”) that enables a new columnstore index that offers 10-100x performance improvements for a star join or similar query. Apollo brings together the in-memory columnstore … Continue reading