It is time. I have been thinking about this for about a year and playing with the idea for way too long, with the concrete plans for the January of 2018, than August 2018 … Anyway – here we go…
ETL Optimisation Workshop @ SQLBits 2019
The biggest in the Europe & the craziest (in the very best sense) in the World conference for the Microsoft Data Platform has always been the SQLBits. I can not deny that every year I can, I am delighted to…
Columnstore Indexes – part 127 (“Batch Mode on Rowstore – is it a Columnstore Killer?”)
Continuation from the previous 126 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. With the appearance of the Batch Mode on the Rowstore Indexes (FINALLY!), the big question (aka Elefant) is in the room – DO WE STILL NEED…
Azure SQL DB Readable Secondary
I would like to share a little secret with you. Well, that is not exactly a secret – it has been publicly available since a good number of months in preview (6 months, I believe to be more precise), and…