CISL – Columnstore Indexes Scripts Library, Release 1 (“Ortus”)
I am glad to announce the very first release of the CISL – Columnstore Indexes Scripts Library, with codename “Ortus”.
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2015-09-01
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Niko's blog
Columnstore Indexes – part 63 (“Parallel Data Insertion”)
Continuation from the previous 62 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
Data Loading is one of the most...
2015-08-19
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Columnstore Indexes – part 62 (“Row Groups Trimming”)
Continuation from the previous 61 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
I have spoken a lot of times...
2015-08-12
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The Seven-Day Weekend by Ricardo Semler
This great book by Ricardo Semler is something that some of my friends have been recommending me to read for...
2015-08-04
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Power BI v2 is GA
I guess in the age of rapid development and releases the fact of General Availability of the Power BI v...
2015-07-29
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Creative Schools by Sir Ken Robinson
Education. The key topics for everyone.
In his incredibly famous TED Talk “Do Schools Kill Creativity“, which might be some of...
2015-07-28
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Columnstore Indexes – part 61 (“Window aggregate functions”)
Continuation from the previous 60 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
A lot of financial calculations in the...
2015-07-21
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Speaking at SQLServerDays 2015 in Belgium
There are a number of high quality events in Europe that are being run by the local volunteers or user...
2015-07-15
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Columnstore Indexes – part 60 (“3 More Batch Mode Improvements in SQL Server 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 59 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post is dedicated to some...
2015-07-14
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Columnstore Indexes – part 59 (“Aggregate Pushdown”)
Continuation from the previous 58 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
SQL Server 2016 brings a number of...
2015-07-11
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Creating a JSON Document II
I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:
TeamID TeamNameCity YearEstablished 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960If I run this code, what document(s) is/are returned?
SELECT json_objectagg( n.city : n.TeamName) FROM dbo.NFLTeams n;See possible answers