I will not even try to hide my secret wish to deliver a full-day precon in the city where I have made my studies, in Vienna – and since this year (2019) the fine gentlemen running this event have organised…
Precon at SQLSaturday Vienna 2020
Columnstore Indexes – part 129 (“Compatibility with the New Features of Sql Server 2019”)
Continuation from the previous 128 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. In this blog post I would like to point the compatibilities with the immediately upcoming release of Sql Server 2019 and the Columnstore Indexes. In the…
Columnstore Indexes – part 128 (“Ordering Columnstore Indexes in Azure SQL Datawarehouse”)
Continuation from the previous 127 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. First of all and before everything else, I would like to extend my gratitude to Xiaoyu Li (Microsoft PM) for taking her time and exchanging long…
Giving Back to the Community: 12 Hours of Columnstore Knowledge in 2019
I have always loved the idea of giving back. I can’t even describe how much I have learned and keep on learning from the community, through the blog posts, videos, lectures & conversations at the conferences. I am forever indebted…
Announcing “Columnstore & Batch Execution Mode” Channel
It is time. I have been thinking about this for about a year and playing with the idea for way too long, with the concrete plans for the January of 2018, than August 2018 … Anyway – here we go…