Continuation from the previous 43 parts, starting from https://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ This post is dedicated to the monitoring aspects of the Columnstore Indexes, which should help you understanding what is going on with your production system. Columnstore Monitoring Options First of all…
In-Memory Virtual Chapter Co-Lead
It is official – since a couple of weeks I have become a co-leader of one of the newest Virtual Chapters of PASS – In-Memory Virtual Chapter. What is In-Memory? In-Memory describes a set of technologies which are intended to…
Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 43 (“Transaction Log Basics”)
Continuation from the previous 42 parts, starting from https://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ This post is dedicated to the Transaction Log behaviour, which might explain some of the behaviours of the Columnstore Indexes, observed in the earlier posts in the series. I decided to…
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
While on my trip to PASS Summit 2014, I have selected one more book to read on the long flights and this time it was Essentialism: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, written by Greg McKeown. This book is all…
PASS Summit 2014 Recap
Every autumn one can observe the pilgrimage of almost all Microsoft Data Platform specialists (SQL Server, Excel, Azure Platform) for one of the cities in the USA and most of the times to Seattle. The reason behind it is the…