If you are looking for one of the most awesome and most import conferences in Europe, then surely you need to take a deep look into SQLKonferenz in Germany. Organised by German PASS, this conference is taking place for the…
SQLKonferenz 2015


If you are looking for one of the most awesome and most import conferences in Europe, then surely you need to take a deep look into SQLKonferenz in Germany. Organised by German PASS, this conference is taking place for the…

Continuation from the previous 44 parts, starting from https://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ I have blogged a couple times (part 29 – “Data Loading for Better Segment Elimination”, part 34 – “Deleted Segments Elimination” ) about the importance of the Segment Elimination, I have…

Continuation from the previous 43 parts, starting from https://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ This post is dedicated to the monitoring aspects of the Columnstore Indexes, which should help you understanding what is going on with your production system. Columnstore Monitoring Options First of all…

It is official – since a couple of weeks I have become a co-leader of one of the newest Virtual Chapters of PASS – In-Memory Virtual Chapter. What is In-Memory? In-Memory describes a set of technologies which are intended to…

Continuation from the previous 42 parts, starting from https://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ This post is dedicated to the Transaction Log behaviour, which might explain some of the behaviours of the Columnstore Indexes, observed in the earlier posts in the series. I decided to…