encoded-by-column-def.md

A comma-delimited list of columns from the source table, where each column is qualified by one or both of the following encoding options:

  • ACCESSRANK integer: Overrides the default access rank for a column, useful for prioritizing access to a column. See Prioritizing column access speed.

  • ENCODING encoding-type: Specifies the type of encoding to use on the column. The default encoding type is AUTO.

This option and *column-name-list *are mutually exclusive. This option is invalid for external tables.