Columnstore Indexes – part 100 (“Identity”)
Continuation from the previous 99 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
In Data Warehousing one will not be...
2017-03-25
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Columnstore Indexes – part 99 (“Merge”)
Continuation from the previous 98 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post is focused on the...
2017-02-26
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Columnstore Indexes – part 98 (“Null Expressions & String Aggregates”)
Continuation from the previous 97 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
Continuing with the spirit of the previous...
2017-02-15
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Columnstore Indexes – part 97 (“Working with Strings”)
Continuation from the previous 96 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
After many years of using & fighting the...
2017-02-01
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CloudProPT – The New Cloud/Azure Community in Portugal
I am so happy to share the news that as of today, the new community CloudProPT (as in Cloud for...
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Columnstore Indexes – part 96 (“Nonclustered Columnstore Index Online Rebuild”)
Continuation from the previous 95 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post is focused on a...
2017-01-22
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Columnstore Indexes – part 95 (“Basic Query Patterns”)
Continuation from the previous 94 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
In this blog post I am continuing...
2017-01-07
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Columnstore Indexes – part 94 (“Use Partitioning Wisely”)
Continuation from the previous 93 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post will talk about some...
2017-01-06
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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