Summary
This article describes an update that makes the following changes to the Columnstore Indexes feature in SQL Server 2016:
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Improves the ability to add a non uniqueidentifier column in a clustered Columnstore Index by assigning the default value of NEWID() or NEWSEQUENTIALID() expressions to it.
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Improves the ability to add a uniqueidentifier column in a clustered Columnstore Index by using an expression of NEWSEQUENTIALID() and NEWID().
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Fixes an issue that when you add a new uniqueidentifier column in a clustered Columnstore Index, and the new column has a NOT NULL or DEFAULT constraint, NULL values are added to the existing rows.
More Information
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Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
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