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Thursday, May 1, 2014

"Clustered Columnstore Indexes" Limitations

Clustered Columnstore indexes is one of the best things that happened to SQL server for Data Warehousing applications. But having said that there are a few limitations that have to be kept in mind:

Columns that use any of the following data types cannot be included in a columnstore index.
  • ntext, text, and image
  • varchar(max) and nvarchar(max)
  • rowversion (and timestamp)
  • sql_variant
  • CLR types (hierarchyid and spatial types)
  • xml
Columnstore indexes cannot be combined with the following features:
  • Page and row compression, and vardecimal storage format (A columnstore index is already compressed in a different format.)
  • Replication
  • Change tracking
  • Change data capture
  • Filestream

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