Speaking In Kansas City At #SQLSatKC

On Saturday, September 13th, I’ll be presenting my 10 Ways To Abuse T-SQL session in Kansas City. If you haven’t...

SQL Server 2005 || Database backup failed because Full Text catalog files are OFFLINE

Error : Database backup is getting fail with below reason. The backup of full-text catalog ‘FullTextCatalog’ is not permitted because it is not online. Check errorlog file for the...

Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 33

More notes, hopefully not repeating any from previous posts!
Karla has used the chart showing registration growth as a way to...

The Murder train chugs into Raleigh

You know, these 1 hour sessions that are at most SQL Saturdays are just too short sometimes – you just get...

New website

As you can see the webpage has changed!
New features are:

– Syntax highlighting on code snippets (and easy copy/paste)

– Better readability

–...

Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #96

It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up.  If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...

Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 32

I just paused our first LinkedIn campaign, the one that was based on a functional area of IT in the...

Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 38 (“Memory Structures”)

Continuation from the previous 37 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/
In the past I have been writing quite a lot on the...

Guest Editorial Live on SSC

My guest editorial is live on SQLServerCentral.com. My argument is a simple one: we don’t care about data and IT...

SQL Server 2005 || Database backup failed because Full Text catalog files are OFFLINE

Error : Database backup is getting fail with below reason.
The backup of full-text catalog ‘FullTextCatalog’ is not permitted because it is...