Speaking at SQLSaturday #459, Madrid 2015
Glad to share that I have been picked up to speak at Spanish SQLSaturday for the second time in a...
2015-10-14
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Niko's blog
Columnstore Indexes – part 68 (“Data Loading, Delta-Stores & Vertipaq Compression Optimisation”)
Continuation from the previous 67 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post is focusing on some...
2015-10-11
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TUGA IT Conference 19-21st of May 2016
Between 19th-21st of May 2016, we (TUGA Association) are organising a major IT event in Portugal – TUGA IT.
Targeting Microsoft Data...
2015-10-06
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SQLSaturday Portugal – I am not the principal organiser anymore
Unless you have been sleeping under the rock in the past 5 days, if you are a twitter user, you...
2015-10-06
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Columnstore Indexes – part 67 (“Clustered Columstore Isolation Levels & Transactional Locking”)
Continuation from the previous 66 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
Continuing from the last couple of blog...
2015-09-22
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Speaking at SQLSaturday #446, Oregon 2015
I have spoken a number of times at different SQLSaturdays around the world, including some rather rare editions, such as...
2015-09-21
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Ryan Adams For PASS 2016-2018 Board
Ladies and Gentlemen, I would love to announce my support for Ryan Adams running for the PASS Board in 2016-2018....
2015-09-16
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Columnstore Indexes – part 66 (“More Clustered Columnstore Improvements in SQL Server 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 65 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
Continuing writing about the improvements added to...
2015-09-15
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Columnstore Indexes – part 65 (“Clustered Columnstore Improvements in SQL Server 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 64 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This article is dedicated to the improvements...
2015-09-06
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Columnstore Indexes – part 64 (“T-SQL Improvements in SQL Server 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 63 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
I have decided to write a rather...
2015-09-02
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Blogs
Book Review – Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices
I was asked to do a review of the book Microsoft Power BI Performance...
SQL Server Distributed Availability Groups and Kubernetes
A while back I wrote about how to use a Cross Platform (or Clusterless)...
Introducing SQL Server 2025 - Enterprise Ready AI
Introducing SQL Server 2025 - Enterprise Ready AI SQL Server 2025 is an upcoming...
Forums
Stairway to Snowflake Level 5 - Using Snowflake with SnowSQL and Visual Studio Code
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Stairway to Snowflake Level 5...
A Strange Result
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Possible SQL 2014 to 2016 Issue - Some Application Functions Slow/Failing
First time here...hoping I can find some direction and answers so I can devise...
Question of the Day
A Strange Result
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers