Warning: If during reading this post, you feel like a lot of bells started ringing – I might have written about something that is important & sensitive. And if it has not, then this blog post was not written for…
Jack of ALL Trades
Presentations & Blogging of 2017 in Review
And here comes the 5th time I am reviewing what happened on the presentation an blogging side of my life, this time focusing on the past year of 2017. Like in the previous years (2016, 2015, for example), I am…
We won vs They Lost
Competitive Sports is one of the incredible miracles to me and I love them greatly. I can watch almost any competition where the good sportsmanship is real (Feel free to imagine here your own doping/cheating/stupid exceptions), but there is one…
TSQL Tuesday #93: 2 Job Interviews
I decided to join the T-SQL Tuesday blog series that Kendra Little is leading this month, on the topic that is called “Interviewing Patterns & Anti-Patterns” The Job I HAD to skip Please, take this first part in the context…
Columnstore Indexes – part 105 (“Performance Counters”)
Continuation from the previous 104 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. For a very long time I was intending to write some of the unsung & almost hidden improvements of the SQL Server 2016 – the performance…