In case I needed a reminder of how cool columnstore indexes are for analytic queries, I made this example to jog my memory. I used the StackOverflow 180 GB sized database you can download from Brent Ozar's site. I have it running in VMWare Workstation pro, but these days you can run your SQL Server … Continue reading Columnstore Index Goodness
Tag: Data Warehouse
Setup a Simple Transactional Replication lab
At my former employer, one of the key components of our Business Intelligence environment was transactional replication of data between production and the Data Warehouse. Because this replication was critical to our reporting/BI pipeline, not to mention my livelihood, I wanted to dig into to how transactional replication works. As usual for me, the first … Continue reading Setup a Simple Transactional Replication lab