SQL Server 2012 includes a lot of new and exciting features. One feature that has caught the imagination of many in the user community is the high-performance feature called Columnstore Indexes.

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Columnstore indexes give great performance to queries that scan large sets of rows (millions of rows typically), and also provides huge savings in storage space. Typical compression rates can be 90%.

While SQL Server 2008 was little more than a service-pack level upgrade, the 2012 version of Microsoft’s database has a boatload of new features and delivers solid performance improvements.

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Running index optimize and I'm seeing that the nonclustered columnstore indexes are getting rebuilt with maxdop = 1 instead of maxdop = 8 as i would expect. Microsoft SQL Server 2019 (RTM-CU32-GDR) ...