Hi, everyone! It's been a while since I've posted here, but I wanted to take the time to do a brief writeup about some of the huge performance benefits I've achieved by moving from SQL Server 2008R2 to SQL Server 2016 and utilizing columnstore indexing.
Our home office users rely heavily on our Business Intelligence system. Right now, it's powered by a data warehouse running on SQL Server 2008R2 Enterprise. We have been holding off on upgrading for various reasons, but at this point, our user base is growing incredibly fast, and I wanted to find a way to increase performance without simply throwing additional hardware at the problem. After spending a lot of time researching the new 2014/2016 features and extensively reading blogs (a huge shout out to Niko Neugebauer whose posts on Columnstore Indexes are nothing short of amazing), I was...