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DP-203 · Question #161

You are designing a financial transactions table in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool. The table will have a clustered columnstore index and will include the following columns: Transaction

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Submitted by asante_acc· Mar 30, 2026Design and implement data storage

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You are designing a financial transactions table in an Azure Synapse Analytics dedicated SQL pool. The table will have a clustered columnstore index and will include the following columns:

TransactionType: 40 million rows per transaction type CustomerSegment: 4 million per customer segment TransactionMonth: 65 million rows per month AccountType: 500 million per account type You have the following query requirements:

Analysts will most commonly analyze transactions for a given month. Transactions analysis will typically summarize transactions by transaction type, customer segment, and/or account type You need to recommend a partition strategy for the table to minimize query times. On which column should you recommend partitioning the table?

Options

  • ACustomerSegment
  • BAccountType
  • CTransactionType
  • DTransactionMonth

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#clustered columnstore index#partition column selection#Synapse SQL pool#query performance
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