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…
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…

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…

Another happy release of the CISL (Columnstore Indexes Script Library) is live – this time it is 1.4.0! This release is focusing on the addition of the Extended Events, so that a user of CISL can easily set up the…