Its the right time & the right moment of the year to announce the 2nd edition of the ultimate portuguese IT conference – Tuga IT 2017, that will take place between 18th and 20th of May in Microsoft Headquarters in…
Announcing Tuga IT 2017
Delivering workshop at SQLBits 17
Its the end of the another great year (2016) and I already have received an incredible news for the next year – in 2017 I will be coming back to the most amazing data platform conference – the SQLBits, to…
CISL 1.4.1 is released
Just one month later after the 1.4.0 release of CISL, I am here again blogging about the new release 1.4.1 which besides bug-fixes and small improvements introduces support for Columnstore Indexes on any edition of SQL Server starting with SQL…
Columnstore Indexes – part 92 (“Lobs”)
Continuation from the previous 91 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. Since the very first version of the Columnstore Indexes in 2012, there has been no support for LOB (large objects binaries). The reason behind not focusing…
Columnstore Indexes – part 91 (“SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition Limitations”)
Continuation from the previous 90 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. Given the improvements and the availability of the of the programability surface for every edition (with some insignificant & logical limitations) that I have blogged about…