Columnstore Indexes – part 58 (“String Predicate Pushdown”)
Continuation from the previous 57 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
I have previously blogged on the predicate...
2015-07-05
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Announcing Columnstore Indexes Script Library
Today, the 3rd of July 2015 marks the 2rd anniversary of my very first Columnstore Indexes blog post in the...
2015-07-05
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Columnstore Indexes – part 57 (“Segment Alignment Maintenance”)
Continuation from the previous 56 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/
In this post I want to focus...
2015-06-28
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Speaking at PASS Summit 2015
I will reveal no big secret that on the night when email notifications of PASS Summit selection are sent, I...
2015-06-28
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Announcing Workshops – Columnstore Deep Dive
After 2 year of active blogging and almost 60 blog posts (56 + 3 on Azure) we have decided that it...
2015-06-16
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Columnstore Indexes – part 56 (“New DMV’s in SQL Server 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 55 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/
Before starting to dive into the specific...
2015-06-15
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Columnstore Indexes – part 55 (“New Architecture Elements in SQL Server 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 54 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/
The architectural changes in the upcoming SQL...
2015-06-08
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Columnstore Indexes – part 54 (“Thoughts on upcoming improvements in SQL Server 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 53 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/
This is a not very deep technical...
2015-05-27
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Azure Columnstore, part 3 – Modern Segment Elimination and Set Statistics IO
Welcome to the 3rd blog post in the Azure Columnstore series, this one is dedicated to one very important improvement...
2015-05-24
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Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 53 (“What’s new for Columnstore in SQL Server 2014 SP1”)
Continuation from the previous 52 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/
This is a very small blog post...
2015-05-22
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