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…
Announcing “Columnstore & Batch Execution Mode” Channel
Columnstore Indexes – part 126 (“Extracting Columnstore Statistics to Cloned Database”)
Continuation from the previous 125 parts, the whole series can be found at http://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…
Resumable Online Index Creation
It is quite strange to write an article about Resumable Online Index Creation 14 months after writing about Resumable Online Index Rebuild operation, because from the physical world logic there should be first the initial creation and then rebuild process,…
CosmosDB: NOSQL – faster than relational databases
This blog post is a continuation in the little series about CosmosDB, that is started with the post CosmosDB: NoSQL, NoDBA & NoProblem? In this blog post I am going to research some common way of viewing about the default…
CosmosDB: NoSQL, NoDBA & NoProblem?
Welcome to my series on the CosmosDB, you might enjoy them, or you might not. :) This represents my current opinion and view on this platform at this very moment and it might change in the future (given that I…