UPDATE: The event has been moved to 29th of September to 3rd of October 2020 My love for the SQLBits is long (and so far I can be sure it was – how can one not admire the group who…
SQLBits 20 Workshop – Migrating & Running SQL Server on Azure VMs
Columnstore Indexes – part 128 (“Ordering Columnstore Indexes in Azure SQL Datawarehouse”)
Continuation from the previous 127 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. First of all and before everything else, I would like to extend my gratitude to Xiaoyu Li (Microsoft PM) for taking her time and exchanging long…
ETL Optimisation Workshop @ SQLBits 2019
The biggest in the Europe & the craziest (in the very best sense) in the World conference for the Microsoft Data Platform has always been the SQLBits. I can not deny that every year I can, I am delighted to…
CloudProPT – The New Cloud/Azure Community in Portugal
I am so happy to share the news that as of today, the new community CloudProPT (as in Cloud for Portugal) is born. This new community will focus on the Cloud and on Microsoft Azure in particular. This new community…
Announcing SQLSaturday Portugal Lisbon-Edition 2017
With just 1 week until SQLSaturday Portugal Porto 2016, I am glad to share that we have SQLSaturday Lisbon 2017 already live! Between 9th and 11th of March 2017 at Microsoft Portugal in Lisbon, the 7th edition of the SQLSaturday…