You

have a customer who has several SQL Server 2012 database servers. You are designing a data warehouse for the customer. The data warehouse will use columnstore indexes.

The customer identifies that the following must be supported for the column store index

es.

Data manipulation language (DML) statements

Nonclustered columnstore indexes

Clustered columnstore indexes – Partitioning

You need to identify which technology requires the customer to implement an SQL Server 2014 database. What should you identify?

A. clustered columnstore indexes

B. nonclustered columnstore indexes

C. data manipulation language (DML) statements

D. partitioning

Explanation:

SQL Server 2014 has the features of SQL Server 2012 plus updateable clustered columnstore indexes.

This feature is required here as DML statements must be supported in the warehouse.

References: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg492088(v=sql.120).aspx