Hugo:

I'm sorry for the delay in answering you; it's been an insane week.

The requested files are uploaded here.   My first observation from looking at the execution...

Hugo:

I'm running your demo scripts on a SQL 2016 server.  I noticed that when I rebuilt the column store index in Step 7 without using MAXDOP that I...

Gail:

Thanks for taking the time to explain this. I was unaware of this until now.

Andre

Thanks Gail - that's the route we are undertaking.