From 10th to 12th of February of 2014 in Darmstadt (near Frankfurt) German PASS will be organizing the German SQL Server Conference. The agenda is already live, feel free to explore the awesome content that this conference is offering. Here…
PASSCamp 2013
Have you ever heard about PASSCamp ? Organized by German PASS, this is a 3 full days hands-on event, organized somewhere near the end of the calendar year (typically in December). This is a quite expensive event, but it has…
Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 22 (“Invisible Row Groups”)
Continuation from the previous 21 parts, starting from https://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ Last week on an amazing 2013 edition of PASSCamp in Germany one of the attendees has called my attention to the fact that during hands-on labs he has managed to get…
New Challenge Accepted – OH22
I am glad to share that I have accepted a new challenge and since 1st of November of 2013 have joined the OH22 Family. I have already started working as a BI Consultant together with Oliver Engels & Tillmann Eitelberg…
Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 21 (“DBCC CSIndex”)
Continuation from the previous 20 parts, starting from https://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ There is a new kid on the block for Columnstore Indexes (Clustered & Nonclustered), which allow us to take a deep look into the internal stuff of the Columnstore Indexes. This…