I guess in the age of rapid development and releases the fact of General Availability of the Power BI v 2.0 on the last friday, 24th of July 2015 was something that anyone somehow connected to the world of Business…
Power BI v2 is GA
Creative Schools by Sir Ken Robinson
Education. The key topics for everyone. In his incredibly famous TED Talk “Do Schools Kill Creativity“, which might be some of the most important 20 minutes that you will spend this year, Sir Ken Robinson argued about the current state…
Columnstore Indexes – part 61 (“Window aggregate functions”)
Continuation from the previous 60 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. A lot of financial calculations in the SQL world involves a number of analytical & statistical functions, such as CUME_DIST, LEAD, FIRST_VALUE, PERCENTILE_CONT, LAG, PERCENTILE_DISC, LAST_VALUE,…
Speaking at SQLServerDays 2015 in Belgium
There are a number of high quality events in Europe that are being run by the local volunteers or user groups. SQLServerDays in Belgium is one of those high-end payed events organised by the local user group that you will…
Columnstore Indexes – part 60 (“3 More Batch Mode Improvements in SQL Server 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 59 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. This blog post is dedicated to some of the major improvements in SQL Server 2016, related to the Batch Execution Mode. By all means this list…