I am not a fan of the awards & prizes (and there will be soon a blog post on this topic), but there is something important I wanted to share and for a good reason. There is a huge lack…
The Data Platform blog of the year 2017
Tuga IT 2018 Summer Edition
It is with a huge joy that we announce this years primary event – Tuga IT 2018 Summer Edition, that will take place between 19th and 21st of July 2018. Yes, the SUMMER EDITION and yes exactly in the middle-late…
100th SQLPort Meeting (8 Years of SQLPort)
It seems like a couple of months ago, I went to talk with a friend of mine working at Microsoft Portugal and asked for contacts with the “people responsible for the technical and marketing part of the SQL Server” In…
Presentations & Blogging of 2017 in Review
And here comes the 5th time I am reviewing what happened on the presentation an blogging side of my life, this time focusing on the past year of 2017. Like in the previous years (2016, 2015, for example), I am…
Columnstore Indexes – part 109 (“Trivial Plans in SQL Server 2017”)
Continuation from the previous 108 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. Do you remember one of the major problems in SQL Server 2014 using Columnstore Indexes ? It was the lack of the support for the Batch…