The clustered columnstore index and the nonclustered columnstore index function in a very similar way; they use the same columnar storage format, same query processing engine, and the same set of dynamic management views. The difference is primary versus secondary index types, and the nonclustered...
Virtual log file growth In previous versions of SQL Server, if the next growth is more than 1/8 of the current log size, and the growth is less than 64 MB, four VLFs were created. In SQL Server 2022 (16.x), this behavior is slightly different. Only one VLF is created if the grow...
Applies to: SQL Server Analysis Services Azure Analysis Services Fabric/Power BI PremiumThis article summarizes new features, improvements, deprecated and discontinued features, and behavior and breaking changes in the most recent versions of SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)....
Applies to: SQL Server Analysis Services Azure Analysis Services Fabric/Power BI PremiumThis article summarizes new features, improvements, deprecated and discontinued features, and behavior and breaking changes in the most recent versions of SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)....
Applies to: SQL Server Analysis Services Azure Analysis Services Fabric/Power BI PremiumThis article summarizes new features, improvements, deprecated and discontinued features, and behavior and breaking changes in the most recent versions of SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)....
SELECT ... WINDOW clauseDetermines the partitioning and ordering of a rowset before the window function, which uses the window in OVER clause is applied. SeeSELECT - WINDOW. IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROMDetermines whether two expressions when compared with each other evaluate to NULL, and guarantees ...
Applies to: SQL Server Analysis Services Azure Analysis Services Fabric/Power BI PremiumThis article summarizes new features, improvements, deprecated and discontinued features, and behavior and breaking changes in the most recent versions of SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)....
Relationships are like the rules that govern how data is connected in your database. In a well-normalized order-processing database, for example, most likely you’ll have customer information in one table and order information in another table. You want to make sure customers don’t get separ...
Learn about what's new in the latest version Power BI Report Server. This article covers the major feature areas and is updated as new versions are released.
The logic for change data capture process is embedded in the stored proceduresp_replcmds, an internal server function built as part of sqlservr.exe and also used by transactional replication to harvest changes from the transaction log. In SQL Server and Azure SQL Managed Instance, when change da...