SQL Saturday Albany (#sqlsat386) – Look Who’s Speaking!

So on June 3rd I got this email from Edward Pollack.

I had submitted a few weeks earlier and had been...

SQL Saturday Sioux Falls – July 18

If you live in the Midwest region around Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota, you should consider attending the first-ever...

Talking TypeScript on the .NET Rocks! Podcast

I appeared on the .NET Rocks podcast show #1149 this week.  I had a blast talking about TypeScript, the new...

The #1 Enemy of Data Loading in SQL Server

Let’s look at the following script:
CREATE TABLE LoadMeFast (Id INT NOT NULL,
InsertDate DATETIME NOT NULL,
ABunchOfLetters NVARCHAR(100)
)
GO
SET NOCOUNT ON
GO
DECLARE...

Columnstore Indexes – part 55 (“New Architecture Elements in SQL Server 2016”)

Continuation from the previous 54 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/
The architectural changes in the upcoming SQL...

HealthySQL - A Comprehensive Guide to Healthy SQL Server Performance Now Available - 10% off

Announcing my new book available in hard copy and eBook, HealthySQL -
A Comprehensive Guide to Healthy SQL Server Performance, by...

Multiple Windows Groups with different default databases

A question came up at work the other day, mostly as a mind game, but you never know it might...

Sysmail_help_profileaccount_sp – SQL Server Database Mail Stored Procedure – Part 8

Hi folks, in our previous blog of SQL Server Database Mail stored procedure we added database mail account to database...

Animated Graphics Depict The Fallen of World War II

In an amazing application of visualization techniques, this production is a depiction of the casualties and affects of war.  Starting...

Animated Graphics Depict The Fallen of World War II

In an amazing application of visualization techniques, this production is a depiction of the casualties and affects of war.  Starting...