Continuation from the previous 125 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. I have a huge love for the DBCC CLONEDATABASE command – it has been made available (backported) to every SQL Server version starting with SQL Server…
Columnstore Indexes – part 125 (“Estimate Columnstore Compression as a System Stored Proc”)
Continuation from the previous 124 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. It is quite emblematic that this blog post is following the number 124 in the series – Columnstore Indexes – part 124 (“Estimate Columnstore Compression”), because…
MBD – Marketing B* Distance
I have been waiting for a couple of years to write on this topic, but there were always other topics that gained priority and only at SQLSaturday Cambridge where I did a part of the Keynote, did I dedicated some…
Brand Yourself
Brace Yourself! Almost everyone will tell you that you have got to Brand Yourself! But ain’t nobody’s telling about HOW TO actually brand yourself. Or why, for that matter. :) In the past 2 years I have started feeling very…
T-Shirts & Community Events
Do you speak at a lot of conferences? How many t-shirts do you collect per year? How many of them are you wearing and how many of them stay in the closets / given away right after the end of…