Creating Columnstore indexes on Compressed table?

  • If I have a 500 million rows PAGE compressed table,

    should I/Can I be creating a Columnstore index on such compressed table?  Will it even work?

    Will it be beneficial.. ?

    Can't find much on web on correlation between regular data compression and Columnstore compression.

    thanks.

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  • should I/Can I be creating a Columnstore index on such compressed table?  Will it even work?

    Test it - easy enough for you to create a table with normal compression and then create a columnstore index on it - no need to ask anyone if it will work as you can do it yourself

    Will it be beneficial.. ?

    Maybe - as usual it depends - test test test - and have a search on this forum for recent threads regarding columnstore which will give you some ideas.

    regarding data vs columnstore - again there are no rules - some compress more, other compress less - again it depends.

    you can and should however read this series of articles from Nico Neugebauer - both available here and on http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/

     

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