As I’ve discussed in some of my previous posts, creating a non-clustered Columnstore index will make the index as well as the base table read-only. Which means you can’t insert, update, or delete any data until your drop the index. This may seem like a huge issue, but in reality it’s not that much of a problem. Keep in mind the Columnstore index feature is targeted at data warehouses that modify data infrequently. In the examples below, I go through two methods you can use to edit your read-only data. To get started, we need to create a test table...
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How to Remove (Undo) Table Partitioning
I have seen plenty of articles and blog posts out there for how to setup and implement table partitioning, but very few for removing or undoing it. So I thought I would cover a few ways to accomplish this while still preserving the data. There could be many reasons for removing partitioning: no longer needed, need to change partitioned tables, etc. But for our example, we just want to completely remove it from all tables. It would be nice if we could just drop the partition function and partition schema and SQL Server would handle all the rest, but it just...
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