Tag Archives: Data Warehouse

Clustered Columnstore Index in SQL Server 2014

Posted on November 4, 2015 by

The clustered columnstore index which shipped with SQL Server 2014 is busy revolutionizing the Data Warehousing landscape in SQL Server. When creating a Fact Table in a data warehouse you will almost without question put a Clustered Columnstore (CCI) on … Continue reading →

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Best Practices for Building a Large Scale Data Warehouse

Posted on April 17, 2015 by

You walk into the office today and your client, or your boss, asks you to build a warehouse. All seems fine and dandy, right. You are the developer and this should be easy. “O, and by the way, our 5 OLTP systems … Continue reading →

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SQL Server data warehouse performance settings

Posted on January 30, 2015 by

This is the checklist you need to ensure your SQL Server environment is optimally setup for Data Warehouse loads. I have compiled it based on experience and the FastTrack data warehouse reference architecture. Confirm that Windows Server 2012 Application Server … Continue reading →

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Partition Switching for Large Data Loads

Posted on January 21, 2015 by

This is the first in a four-part series of blog posts explaining my journey using SQL Server’s partition switching functionality to load a very large Fact tables. Partition switching is a Microsoft best practice data loading technique as described in … Continue reading →

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