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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Blogs
From SQL Saturday to Day of Data
By ReviewMyDB
A behind-the-scenes look at Day of Data Jacksonville 2026, the transition from SQL Saturday,...
PostgreSQL 18 Finally Makes BUFFERS the Default. Here Is Why That Matters
You run EXPLAIN ANALYZE on a slow query, stare at the plan, and something...
A New Word: La Guadière
By Steve Jones
la guadière – n. a glint of goodness you notice in something that you...
Forums
non ascii columns in a utf-8 .txt file
hi, we couldnt get our upstream data source developers to supply what is sometimes...
PolyBase Trace Flags
Are there any good articles on all the trace flags that are enabled on...
The Data Model Matters
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD I
I run the SQLCMD utility as follows:
lcmd -S localhost -EI then type this (the 1> is the prompt):
1> select @@version goIf I hit enter, what happens? See possible answers