Installing Windows Server 2016 Nano on a Physical Server

Hey guys! So here's my adventure in deploying Windows Server 2016 Nano on a physical server. It was a hard...

Monday Coffee 2017-02-27

Ergh, not a fun weekend rugby wise. But anyway…
Last week Microsoft released an image for SQL Server 2016 SP1 Developer...

Red Gate SQL Clone (#1) - Initial Setup

Note this was during earlier beta usage, so some of the UI and other features will have been updated more....

Speaking at VS Live–Austin

I’ll be speaking at Visual Studio Live – Austin in May 2017. I was fortunate to be selected to speak again,...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

In the next few months I will be speaking at some awesome events around Europe.
 
SQLBits – April 5-8 

SQLBits is THE SQL...

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...

Friday Reading 2017-02-24

Wow that week absolutely flew by! Here’s what I’ve been reading…
Seatbelt learning with Uncle Buck

Buck Woody goes through how he...

Improve performance by replacing temp tables with memory optimized tables - Part 3

Welcome to the last part of this series, you can find the previous post here (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/denniss-sql-blog-1/2017/02/01/improve-performance-by-replacing-temp-tables-with-memory-optimized-tables-part-1/) and here (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/denniss-sql-blog-1/2017/02/08/improve-performance-by-replacing-temp-tables-with-memory-optimized-tables-part-2/).

Previously we...

Permanent Employment v Contracting: How the figures stack up

In my latest learning tree newsletter, I discussed analysing some of the salary survey data that the good folks over...

Adding a T-SQL Job Step to a SQL Agent Job with PowerShell

In my last post, I explained how to alter an existing job step across many servers. I also had cause...