UPDATE: GIVEN THE CURRENT SITUATION WITH COVID-19 THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. This week seems like a line of announcements, but mostly because they have been in works hidden for quite some time – on the 6th of May in…
You might have heard about the wonders of Context functions (SESSION_CONTEXT, CONTEXT_INFO) – they can offer some interesting solutions for the access control, but do you know what it can mean for the integration with the high performing queries? Session…
Continuation from the previous 130 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. This blogpost will be about older SQL Server versions (2016, 2017) and some implications that I have found that people rather do not understand, until they…
There is a reasonably big paradox or it feels to me that there is one – scarcity leads a lot of times to better results then the abundance. The band Queen produced one of my favourite songs – “Too much…
UPDATE: GIVEN THE CURRENT SITUATION WITH COVID-19 THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. My first ever precon in the United States is already public and I am happy to share that on the 20th of March 2020 in the wonderful city…