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”…
The last DJ (AI Remix)
NVTP
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
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…
Columnstore Indexes – part 135 (“JSON type and JSON Index with Columnstore Indexes”)
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…
Master Data Services in SQL Server 2025
I have worked with Master Data Services (aka MDS) extensively, especially during the engagement at OH22 around a decade ago, and I my interest in the area and that specific is documented in my blog – with the following examples:…