I want a new gadget with less features

Years ago I bought a Pebble smartwatch. I didn’t back the Kickstarter, but a few friends did and I liked...

PASS Summit 2017 Precon – Virtual SQL Servers: Right to Ludicrous Speed

PASS has continues to ramp up the plans for the PASS Summit in Seattle this October, and my precon session, “Virtual...

PASS Summit 2017 Precon – Virtual SQL Servers: Right to Ludicrous Speed

PASS has continues to ramp up the plans for the PASS Summit in Seattle this October, and my precon session, “Virtual...

The Code Coverage Report

I had someone that told me recently that they needed to find a way to get code coverage in T-SQL....

Friday Reading 2017-09-15

Excited for next week as I’m heading down to Cork to speak at the User Group there. Over 3 years...

Error Processing Tabular – Method Not Found

Very quick blog post today. While setting-up a development server at a client who is still using SQL Server 2012,...

Columnstore Indexes – part 112 (“Linked Servers”)

Continuation from the previous 111 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blogpost is focusing on the Server...

Multi Script Removes 25 Database Limit

I woke up to a Slack message that alerted me to a post in one of our channels. An engineer...

Come See Me in Minnesota in October!

The schedule for SQL Saturday #682 Minnesota 2017 is out, and I will be giving my talk on Extended Events:

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Getting...

Running for the PASS Board of Directors #PASSelections

This year I decided to take “someday” to heart and do something that has been on my mind for awhile...