First introduced in SQL Server 2012, columnstore indexes can give you major performance gains -- provided you have the right workloads. Here's how columnstore indexes work and what types of data ...

New for SQL Server 2016 is the ability to place a Columnstore Index on an In-Memory Table.

The data is on SQL Server 2008 R2. I thought I could do with with some of the built in analytic functions and "OVER" statement, but this version of SQL Server is rather limited in that department.