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…
While on my trip to PASS Summit 2014, I have selected one more book to read on the long flights and this time it was Essentialism: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, written by Greg McKeown. This book is all…
Every autumn one can observe the pilgrimage of almost all Microsoft Data Platform specialists (SQL Server, Excel, Azure Platform) for one of the cities in the USA and most of the times to Seattle. The reason behind it is the…
Incredibly as it sounds, it took us 2 years of work to get the 18th of October. It took a lot of sweat and hard work of a group of dedicated people. Besides the habitual team of previous editions of…