Reducing the Disk Size of a Hyper-V Virtual Machine

Have you ever created a Hyper-V virtual machine and later needed to change the size of the disk on the...

SQL Server 2014 – How to add features to existing instance ?

SQL Server 2014 – How to add features to existing instance ? :-
1) Start installation center

2) Run Global Rule, You need to...

SSIS Parent-Child Architecture in Package Deployment Mode

This is the second in a series of posts about SSIS parent-child architecture.  You can find the index page here.
In...

T-SQL Window Functions – Part 1: The OVER() Clause

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

T-SQL Window Functions – Part 2: Ranking Functions

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

Why Is your datetime saved as a bigint anyway?

Yet another issue I had never seen before - thankfully this time I was able to find a relatively quick answer.

On...

Worst Day As A DBA

I remember the day pretty vividly, it was in the summer months and I was as green as green can...

“A good DBA is a lazy DBA”

I’m borrowing from Andy Leonard (blog | twitter) who says all the time, “Good engineers are lazy.”
If you’re thinking, “Why would I want (to...

5 Things to Know About Indexes for SQL Server

One of the first questions I got while interviewing for a potential position as a DBA was “If there is...

Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 32 (“Size Does Matter, but how ?”)

Continuation from the previous 31 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/

The Columnstore Row Group Size Question:
What is better for SQL Server performance:...