I am not sure how many books by Seth Godin I do own, I guess that it is somewhere around 6 or 7, that I have managed to buy as a paperback editions previously and digital Ibooks editions as of…
Linchpin by Seth Godin
Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 34 (“Deleted Segments Elimination”)
Continuation from the previous 33 parts, starting from https://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ Segment Elimination for Deleted Row Groups After some very interesting and inspiring conversations during SQLBits, I came to an idea of testing a Segment Elimination while working with a fully deleted…
Hekaton 2014 – The Saviour vs The Lost Cause
With the release of the SQL Server 2014, Microsoft has finally unleashed their long-time in work In-Memory solution (codenamed XTP for Extreme Transaction Processing, old codename Hekaton). Note: I will be keep on using the name Hekaton since Dr Devitt…
Modern DataWarehouse: The Weakest Link
It has been quite some time, that the term Modern Data Warehouse has appeared on the horizon of so many data professionals and publications around the world. Some people describe this term as a conjunction of many different types of…
PASSCamp 2013
Have you ever heard about PASSCamp ? Organized by German PASS, this is a 3 full days hands-on event, organized somewhere near the end of the calendar year (typically in December). This is a quite expensive event, but it has…