Datediff: We’ve Been Doing It Wrong

One of the most common mistakes people make when writing T-SQL is using a function in the where clause, and...

Bad Idea Jeans: Query Optimization Through Minification

SQL is pretty verbose compared to some languages. It's a pretty big disappointment that I have to type out select...

Using Extended Events Telemetry Session

You are probably wondering what this is, quite honestly I was wondering too. Well it is an extended events session...

Notes from the January 2017 oPASS/MagicPASS Meeting

This was a good meeting. About 50 attendees showed up at Nova (we use their space for joint meetings) to...

Professional SSRS 2016 Book Preview Posts

This page is a table of contents for for several new and forthcoming posts.  I’m posting a series of excerpts...

Columnstore Indexes – part 96 (“Nonclustered Columnstore Index Online Rebuild”)

Continuation from the previous 95 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blog post is focused on a...

MVP 2016!!!

Dear All,Very happy to share the news that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for my contributions to SQL Server Community in 2016!!!. This is an...

MVP 2016!!!

Dear All,Very happy to share the news that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for my contributions to SQL Server Community in 2016!!!. This is an...

How to Count the Total Number of Rows Across Multiple Tables

I have been working on SQL Server Consulting assignment,  a SQL Server 2014 migration for a new client over the...

MVP 2016!!!

Dear All,

Very happy to share the news that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for my contributions...