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
430 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
594 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
481 reads
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
413 reads
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
966 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
434 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
456 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
424 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
498 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
615 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future
By DesertDBA
I haven’t posted in a while (well, not here at least since I’ve been...
Keeping MS Docs Up to Date
By Steve Jones
One of the things that I like about the SQL Server docs (MS Learn...
Patch Tuesday – Where to get more information
By Brian Kelley
For a number of years I have subscribed to Randy Franklin Smith's Patch Tuesday...
Forums
Change Tracking – Troubleshooting
I have change tracking configured in several databases, in QA and production environments, and...
is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to the 1st 21 rows?
is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to...
Pivot but preserve all rows on Aggregate column
Hello Need help in pivoting this data set, the Pivot takes MIN/MAX on a...
Question of the Day
What is the PRODUCT
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
CREATE TABLE Numbers ( n INT) GO INSERT dbo.Numbers ( n ) VALUES (1), (2), (3) GO SELECT PRODUCT(n) FROM dbo.NumbersSee possible answers