Between 19th-21st of May 2016, we (TUGA Association) are organising a major IT event in Portugal – TUGA IT. Targeting Microsoft Data Platform, BizTalk, SharePoint, Office365, Azure Infrastructure & much more, this event will be one of the biggest IT…
SQLSaturday Portugal – I am not the principal organiser anymore
Unless you have been sleeping under the rock in the past 5 days, if you are a twitter user, you should have definitely seen some of the reactions and pictures from the passed SQLSaturday Portugal Port-Wine edition 2015. Our second…
Columnstore Indexes – part 67 (“Clustered Columstore Isolation Levels & Transactional Locking”)
Continuation from the previous 66 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. Continuing from the last couple of blog posts on the improvements for the DataWarehouse scenario with Clustered Columnstore Indexes, I want to turn this time to…
Speaking at SQLSaturday #446, Oregon 2015
I have spoken a number of times at different SQLSaturdays around the world, including some rather rare editions, such as Shanghai or Trinidad & Tobago, but there is one of the biggest countries in the world, where even though I…
Ryan Adams For PASS 2016-2018 Board
Ladies and Gentlemen, I would love to announce my support for Ryan Adams running for the PASS Board in 2016-2018. You can read in detail about Ryan’s application at the PASS Election Site. I you want to find more details,…