Presentations & Blogging of 2016 in Review

For the 4th year in a row, I am keeping data on my professional engagements to help the others –

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Columnstore Indexes – part 93 (“Batch Mode Adaptive Memory Grant Feedback”)

Continuation from the previous 92 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
Given that currently the Batch Execution Mode...

Announcing Tuga IT 2017

Its the right time & the right moment of the year to announce the 2nd edition of the ultimate portuguese IT...

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...

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...

Columnstore Indexes – part 92 (“Lobs”)

Continuation from the previous 91 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
Since the very first version of the...

Columnstore Indexes – part 90 (“In-Memory Columnstore Improvements in Service Pack 1 of SQL Server 2016 “)

Continuation from the previous 89 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post is focusing on a...

Columnstore Indexes – part 91 (“SQL Server 2016 Standard Edition Limitations”)

Continuation from the previous 90 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
Given the improvements and the availability of...

SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 – What’s New

With the release of the most epic Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2016, the biggest attention of everyone should...

SQL Server 2016 SP1 – Programmability Surface for everyone!

This is the most important blog post about SQL Server that I have ever written. As far as I am...