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To bring this conversation full circle, let’s create a columnstore index on the FactResellerSales table in AdventureWorksDW2012 (which corresponds to the Sales table in our model). Here are the necessary steps:

  • Connect to your SQL Server relational server in SSMS.

  • Drill down on the Datab`ases node.

  • Drill down on the child AdventureWorksDW2012 node.

  • Drill down on the child Tables node.

  • Drill down on the child dbo.FactResellerSales node.

  • Right-click the child Indexes node and select New Index | Non-Clustered Columnstore Index from the context menu.

  • In the New Index dialog, click the Add button.

The Select Columns dialog box will then come up. Click the select-all checkbox at the far left of the gray-backgrounded column headers bar, ...

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