I have always felt that there is no better way of learning and improving than by sharing the results and the processes. Let me share some info about SQLSaturday Lisbon, Portugal that me & my awesome team (Paulo Matos, Paulo…
Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 13 (“Dictionaries Analyzed”)
Continuation from the previous 12 parts, starting from https://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ This time I decided to play a little bit more with Clustered Columnstore dictionaries in order to understand them a little bit better. Continuing working with Contoso BI Database but this…
SQLSaturday #170, Munich Germany
I was amazingly happy and incredibly nervous when I have received a confirmation of being selected as a presenter for the first SQLSaturday in Germany. Happy – because of being selected and going back to Munich after so many years,…
SQLSaturday #162, Cambridge UK, part 2
Even though I have arrived late to Cambridge and stayed after even later hour drinking a couple of beers with the SQLSaturday organizers I was still capable to wake up very early because I wished to support the event organizers…
SQLSaturday #162, Cambridge UK, part 1
Cambridge, my Cambridge oh SQLSaturtday It was almost a regular friday morning at the office, on the 7th of September of 2013. I called it almost a regular because there were some little differences like starting the working day very…