Its the end of the another great year (2016) and I already have received an incredible news for the next year – in 2017 I will be coming back to the most amazing data platform conference – the SQLBits, to…
Delivering workshop at SQLBits 17
CISL 1.4.1 is released
Just one month later after the 1.4.0 release of CISL, I am here again blogging about the new release 1.4.1 which besides bug-fixes and small improvements introduces support for Columnstore Indexes on any edition of SQL Server starting with SQL…
Columnstore Indexes – part 92 (“Lobs”)
Continuation from the previous 91 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. Since the very first version of the Columnstore Indexes in 2012, there has been no support for LOB (large objects binaries). The reason behind not focusing…
Columnstore Indexes – part 91 (“SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition Limitations”)
Continuation from the previous 90 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. Given the improvements and the availability of the of the programability surface for every edition (with some insignificant & logical limitations) that I have blogged about…
Columnstore Indexes – part 90 (“In-Memory Columnstore Improvements in Service Pack 1 of SQL Server 2016 “)
Continuation from the previous 89 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. This blog post is focusing on a very important improvement to the limitation of the In-Memory Columnstore Indexes that was existing in SQL Server 2016, but…