SQLSaturday Portugal Porto 2014 Recap
Incredibly as it sounds, it took us 2 years of work to get the 18th of October. It took a...
2014-11-04
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Niko's blog
Porto.Data
I am extremely excited to share that the first event of Porto.Data is all set for the 20th of November...
2014-10-29
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Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 42 (“Materialisation”)
Continuation from the previous 41 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/
Important Disclaimer – I have started writing this blog post over 1 months...
2014-10-23
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SSIS ReportGenerator Task
Did you ever faced a situation when needing to generate dynamically a SQL Server Reporting Services Report on-demand, at some...
2014-09-22
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Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 41 (“Statistics”)
Continuation from the previous 40 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/
Note: This article is in’s 2nd version, after correcting comments done by...
2014-09-13
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Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 40 (“Compression Algorithms”)
Continuation from the previous 39 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/
It’s time to take a look into the algorithms that Microsoft is...
2014-09-09
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Speaking at SQLSaturday Barcelona, Spain 2014
A couple of days ago, when I was in Germany – I have received some extremely exciting news that I was...
2014-09-05
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24 Horas de PASS em Português – Edição 2014
Este ano (2014) a 3ª edição do “24 Horas de PASS” em Português será realizada nos dias 7 e 8...
2014-09-05
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SSIS GoogleAnalyticsSource 1.7
A couple of days ago, Tillmann has released a new version of his amazing SSIS data source for Google Analytics...
2014-08-27
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Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 39 (“Memory in Action”)
Continuation from the previous 38 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/
In this post I shall try to discover more interesting information about...
2014-08-26
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The Long Name
I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?