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 https://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…
Tuga IT 2017 Tickets are on sale
I am glad to announce thatTuga IT 2017 Tickets are finally on sale! Wait a second, you might think – on sale? How on earth and why in this galaxy (TM) are we asking for the money? What are we…
SQLPort V2
The new site of SQLPort is finally live. This is not just a redesign of the original site, published in April 2010. This is the start of the second approach that we shall start implementing right from the very next…