SQLPort in Aveiro
Its not a big secret that Microsoft Data Platform community in Portugal has not stopped its expansion – we are trying...
2016-09-11
433 reads
Niko's blog
CISL 1.3.1 is released
I am happy to share that the newest release of the CISL (Columnstore Indexes Script Library) – 1.3.1 is live!
Do...
2016-08-28
596 reads
Speaking at SQLSaturday #555, Munich 2016
I am very honoured to share that I have been picked up to speak at the German SQLSaturday in Munich...
2016-08-25
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1 Day Workshop – Columnstore Deep Dive (in German) on 6th of October 2016
To support more and more people jumping to Columnstore INdexes, OH22 have decided to open another public 1-day deep dive...
2016-08-24
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Columnstore Indexes – part 86 (“New Trace Flags in SQL Server 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 85 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/
With the release of SQL Server 2016,...
2016-07-29
967 reads
CISL 1.3.0 is released
I am extremely proud to share with everyone the news that the long-awaited and quite overdue release of the CISL...
2016-07-24
436 reads
Announcing Workshop for SQLSaturday Porto 2016
I am glad to share that finally today we have announced that a workshop for Sysadmins, DBAs & DevOps Engineers – called
SQL...
2016-06-27
457 reads
Speaking at PASS Summit 2016
There is a huge time for suspense for everyone in the Microsoft Data Platform space, whenever its time to submit...
2016-06-25
425 reads
Columnstore Indexes – part 85 (“Important Batch Mode Changes in SQL Server 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 84 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/
I wanted to write a blog post...
2016-06-21
499 reads
Columnstore Indexes – part 84 (“Practical Dictionary Cases”)
Continuation from the previous 83 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/
In this blog post I wanted to...
2016-06-20
616 reads
Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
How to change the FDLaunch Error log file location
The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Radius Latitude Longitude
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
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