Updated on the 10th of February after being pointed out by Dmitri Furman and Greg Low that as a matter of a fact a whole group of AAD users can be set as a Azure SQL Server administrators. The current…
Speaking at PASS Summit 2020
As you should have heard by now, PASS Summit 2020 is going fully virtual this year (the only possible solution for the current situation and the impossibility of traveling in good conditions around the world). With 4 major pillars: –…
Delivering a precon on Columnstore Indexes at SQLSaturday Israel 2020
UPDATE: GIVEN THE CURRENT SITUATION WITH COVID-19 THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. This week seems like a line of announcements, but mostly because they have been in works hidden for quite some time – on the 6th of May in…
Columnstore Indexes – part 131 (“Rebuilding Rowstore Indexes ONLINE”)
Continuation from the previous 130 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. This blogpost will be about older SQL Server versions (2016, 2017) and some implications that I have found that people rather do not understand, until they…
Delivering a precon on Columnstore Indexes at SQLSaturday Cincinnati 2020
UPDATE: GIVEN THE CURRENT SITUATION WITH COVID-19 THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. My first ever precon in the United States is already public and I am happy to share that on the 20th of March 2020 in the wonderful city…