Thank You SQLBits!

Just a very quick post to say thank you to all the organisers, speakers, helpers, sponsors, venue staff, caterers, party...

Webinar Q&A: Getting Started with Change Data Capture

Yesterday I presented about Change Data Capture for the Pragmatic Works Free Training on the T’s. I covered the basics...

Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 35 (“Trace Flags & Query Optimiser Rules”)

Continuation from the previous 34 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2014/07/20/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-34-deleted-segments-elimination/
This blog post is about controlling some of the Columnstore Indexes behaviours...

My Visit to WPC 2014

Last week I attended WPC. This is an annual event organized by Microsoft for its partners around the world. WPC...

Quick Tips–SQL Prompt Aliases for Every Table

I love SQL Prompt, and think it’s a great productivity tool. Even before I worked at Red Gate, I love...

SQL PASS Performance Palooza 2014 Wrap-Up

Today I presented a fun session for the SQL PASSPerformance Virtual Chapter’s “Summer Performance Palooza 2014” entitled “Infrastructure Tuning for...

T-SQL Window Functions – Part 4: Analytic Functions

This is a reprint with some revisions of a series I originally published on LessThanDot. You can find the links...

5 Tips for Finding SQL Server System Data

Regardless of the type of development (application or reporting) that you are performing on SQL Server.  There are 5 items...

Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 25

Just the chart today. We’re considerably ahead of previous year registrations for the same number of weeks out. I’m looking...

Challenge Accepted

There seemed to be some question whether my comfort level with my own masculinity would prevent me from wearing these:

Oh...