Delivering a precon on Columnstore Indexes at SQLSaturday Cambridge
I am extremely happy to share that I shall be delivering a workshop at the amazing SQLSaturday Cambridge on 10th of September 2015 (Thursday). As you would expect, this whole day experience will focus...
View ArticleClustered Columnstore Indexes – part 53 (“What’s new for Columnstore in SQL...
Continuation from the previous 52 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/ This is a very small blog post which will focus on 1 essential change that happened in...
View ArticleAzure Columnstore, part 3 – Modern Segment Elimination and Set Statistics IO
Welcome to the 3rd blog post in the Azure Columnstore series, this one is dedicated to one very important improvement that Microsoft has added to Azure SQL Database v12 – the number of segments read...
View ArticleColumnstore Indexes – part 54 (“Thoughts on upcoming improvements in SQL...
Continuation from the previous 53 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/ This is a not very deep technical post, which is describing the upcoming news and changes...
View ArticleColumnstore Indexes – part 55 (“New Architecture Elements in SQL Server 2016″)
Continuation from the previous 54 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/ The architectural changes in the upcoming SQL Server 2016 are bringing some very important...
View ArticleColumnstore Indexes – part 56 (“New DMV’s in SQL Server 2016″)
Continuation from the previous 55 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/ Before starting to dive into the specific of all those great-sounding and juicy...
View ArticleAnnouncing Workshops – Columnstore Deep Dive
After 2 year of active blogging and almost 60 blog posts (56 + 3 on Azure) we have decided that it was the right moment to expand the ways of teaching & spreading information on the Columnstore...
View ArticleColumnstore Indexes – part 57 (“Segment Alignment Maintenance”)
Continuation from the previous 56 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/ In this post I want to focus on a very important aspect of Columnstore Indexes maintenance...
View ArticleAnnouncing Columnstore Indexes Script Library
Today, the 3rd of July 2015 marks the 2rd anniversary of my very first Columnstore Indexes blog post in the series that is going strong for 60 different posts (57 traditional + 3 azure-focused ones)...
View ArticleColumnstore Indexes – part 58 (“String Predicate Pushdown”)
Continuation from the previous 57 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. I have previously blogged on the predicate pushdown matter in the post Columnstore...
View ArticleColumnstore Indexes – part 59 (“Aggregate Pushdown”)
Continuation from the previous 58 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. SQL Server 2016 brings a number of significant improvements in the relation of...
View ArticleColumnstore Indexes – part 60 (“3 More Batch Mode Improvements in SQL Server...
Continuation from the previous 59 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. This blog post is dedicated to some of the major improvements in SQL Server 2016, related...
View ArticleColumnstore Indexes – part 61 (“Window aggregate functions”)
Continuation from the previous 60 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. A lot of financial calculations in the SQL world involves a number of analytical &...
View ArticlePower BI v2 is GA
I guess in the age of rapid development and releases the fact of General Availability of the Power BI v 2.0 on the last friday, 24th of July 2015 was something that anyone somehow connected to the...
View ArticleColumnstore Indexes – part 62 (“Row Groups Trimming”)
Continuation from the previous 61 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. I have spoken a lot of times on the aspect of the Columnstore Indexes maintenance during...
View ArticleColumnstore Indexes – part 63 (“Parallel Data Insertion”)
Continuation from the previous 62 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. Data Loading is one of the most important topics for any IT professional, no matter if...
View ArticleCISL – Columnstore Indexes Scripts Library, Release 1 (“Ortus”)
I am glad to announce the very first release of the CISL – Columnstore Indexes Scripts Library, with codename “Ortus”. Go on and download the very first release to find out what it is all about. This...
View ArticleColumnstore Indexes – part 64 (“T-SQL Improvements in SQL Server 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 63 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. I have decided to write a rather small blogpost, highlighting the T-SQL improvements...
View ArticleColumnstore Indexes – part 65 (“Clustered Columnstore Improvements in SQL...
Continuation from the previous 64 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. This article is dedicated to the improvements to Clustered Columnstore Index in SQL...
View ArticleColumnstore Indexes – part 66 (“More Clustered Columnstore Improvements in...
Continuation from the previous 65 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. Continuing writing about the improvements added to Clustered Columnstore Indexes...
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