It is with an incredible joy and gratitude that I am able to share that I will be delivering a full-day precon (workshop) at PASS Summit 2017: Columnstore Indexes – Practical Solutions & Techniques on 31st of October 2017 in…
This blog is a kick-off the series that will be dedicated to the graph databases and engines, being more specifically focused on the SQL Graph, that is the newest extension to the SQL Server engine, as well as the Azure…
Continuation from the previous 105 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. One of the most important and recurring topics for any type of indices is their Building/Rebuilding/Reorganzing processes – after all we do load more data into…
Continuation from the previous 104 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. For a very long time I was intending to write some of the unsung & almost hidden improvements of the SQL Server 2016 – the performance…
I have been fascinated with another new feature of the upcoming SQL Server release and so I decided to blog about it. The new version of SQL Server (2017) introduces a very exciting feature for the DBA’s – the Resumable…