This week I have got some very exciting news – together with Andreas Wolter I will be delivering a full-day precon at the biggest European Microsoft Data Platform Conference – SQLBits. On 17th of July 2014 we shall be delivering…
After 2 years in making, a couple of days ago Microsoft has announced RTM (Released to Manufacture) of SQL Server 2014 will happen on 1st of April of 2014. Choosing 1st of April as a GA date sounds like a…
I am very honored to be invited to present a session for Spanish Community at the Microsoft MVP OpenSessions 2014 this upcoming Saturday, 22nd of March in Barcelona. My session will be just 45 minutes and it is called “*Hidden*…
Continuation from the previous 27 parts, starting from https://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ This blog post is all about the architectural specifics & performance optimizations for the Clustered Columnstore Indexes. It is known that Inserts are mostly faster than pure Update operations, since we…
I was writing about a number of different SQLSaturday events in the previous months, without even mentioning the most important of them all for me. The one that I have been working for months (actually since July of the 2013),…