• Koen Verbeeck (11/18/2013)


    Maybe - and just maybe - you might benefit from a (clustered) columnstore index - if you're using SQL Server 2012 or 2014 - because those indexes compress the data really efficient and you might get less IO.

    and whether the table is read only or not (SQL 2012).

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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