Sometimes one receives amazing gifts at the most unexpected moment. I was beyond thrilled to find out that I was selected to present a precon (workshop) at the biggest, the most important and the most celebrated Microsoft Data Platform Conference…
Another year is coming to an end and I am doing a review of which goals I have managed to achieve. Most of my goals are not public and I am intending to keep them that way, but in the…
Continuation from the previous 74 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. This blog post focuses on one of the newest additions to SQL Server 2016, the feature that most probably has gained a universal appraisal since the…
Continuation from the previous 73 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. Row Group merging & cleanup is a very long waited improvement that came out in SQL Server 2016. Once Microsoft has announced this functionality, everyone who…
The year 2015 is coming to an end and I wanted to publish my currently planned roadmap for the CISL – Columnstore Indexes Scripts Library in 2016. The current version is 1.0.4 but here you can already see what I…