Continuation from the previous 29 parts, starting from https://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ It has been a long time (almost a year) since Microsoft revealed the public preview version of SQL Server with Clustered Columnstore Indexes available, and ever since there were hundreds of…
Announcing SQLSaturday #341 Porto-wine Edition

I am extremely proud to announce that we are officially working on the SQLSaturday in the second biggest city in Portugal – Oporto. We are unofficially baptising our event as SQLSaturday Porto-wine Edition, since as everyone knows Porto is home…
NodeXL – Accessible Network Graph Analysis, part 3 (Twitter)

This is the third blog post in the series dedicated to the Network Graph Analysis Tool – NodeXL. If you are interested, you may find the very first post at the first blog post of the NodeXL series and the…
NodeXL – Accessible Network Graph Analysis, part 2

This is the second blog post in the series dedicated to the Network Graph Analysis Tool – NodeXL. If you are interested, you may find the very first post at the first blog post of the NodeXL series. In this…
Useful Links for learning & using in Data Quality Projects in SQL Server

Data Quality Services in SQL Server is a component that is based around the concept of knowledge-driven quality. Here comes a small collection of useful links, tools, components and blogs to watch. I have compiled it for myself in the…