Today, almost 4 years after starting Portuguese SQL Server User Group I am happy to share that an official Entity is born and its name is TUGA, a non-profit society for knowledge sharing. You might wonder about the chosen name,…
Tribes by Seth Godin
Since in my personal plan I am trying to implement for 2014 is reading a book each month, so here is the book that I have read in January: Tribes by Seth Godin I have been following Seth Godin for…
Books I read in 2013
I decided to start publishing the literature I am reading and to kick it off, I want to revisit books that I have read in 2013. Unfortunately there were not many of them, but since I strongly believe in the…
Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 25 (“Faster Smaller Better Stronger”)
Continuation from the previous 24 parts, starting from https://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ I decided to take a simple OLTP table, make it bigger and to tear it apart with Clustered Columnstore & so this blog post is about this experiment. I picked up…
Statistics: Incremental (2014) – Part 2
This post is a continuation from the previous post on the new Incremental Statistics feature in SQL Server 2014: In this part lets see how the update of the partitioned table will work. To kick off, I decided to update…