PASS Summit Precon – The Complete Primer to SQL Server Virtualization – UPDATE

I am very pleased to announce that Argenis Fernandez, (now including)Jimmy May, and I will be presenting a new precon...

SQL Prompt 7 by RedGate

RedGate unleashed their newest version of SQL Prompt recently. It is no secret to those of you who know me...

SQL Prompt 7 by RedGate

RedGate unleashed their newest version of SQL Prompt recently. It is no secret to those of you who know me...

Storing Event Data

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Using @@ROWCOUNT can be a bit tricky

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Columnstore Indexes – part 66 (“More Clustered Columnstore Improvements in SQL Server 2016”)

Continuation from the previous 65 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
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