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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...