Next week I am travelling to Cardiff to attend and present at my favorite major Data Platform conference – SQLBits 2026. SQLBits has always been the biggest data platform show on earth and my hopes and expectations are not getting…
I am a music lover. A good music lover. I love all kind of music, and I have just 2 criteria – either I love it or I do not. Tom Petty & he Heartbreakers 2002 album “The Last DJ”…
Technical incompetence has always existed. Leadership incompetence has always existed. People at the wrong places and positions at the wrong times – has always contributed to the deaths of the companies, and getting clueless people for the technical roles almost…
20 years of blogging. With interruptions (voluntary or forced – but all in my responsibility), with blocks of high activity and relatively low activity. I have started on the 13th of January 2006 and today, on the 18th of January…
Continuation from the previous 134 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. Not since SQL Server 2008 that Microsoft has added a new base data type to SQL Server, but in SQL Server 2025 they have added not…