Columnstore Indexes – part 74 (“Row Group Merging & Cleanup, SQL Server 2016...
Continuation from the previous 73 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. Row Group merging & cleanup is a very long waited improvement that came out in SQL...
View ArticleColumnstore Indexes – part 82 (“Extended Events in SQL Server 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 81 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. Previously, I have blogged about about the Extended Events in SQL Server 2014 3 times:...
View ArticleSpeaking at 24 Hours of PASS – The Evolution of Data Platform
As announced a couple of hours ago, a new edition of the famous online webinars 24 Hours of PASS will take place on 25th & 26th of May. This time its main topic is the evolution of Data Platform,...
View ArticleCISL 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 – Columnstore Indexes Scripts Library is finally public – the 1.3.0 version. The most...
View Article1 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 workshop on Columnstore Indexes. This public workshop will take place in Munich...
View ArticleCISL 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 not get confused by the small incremental of the build version – this release is...
View ArticleColumnstore & Memory-Optimised Workshop in Redmond (10.31-11.02 2016)
I am so happy that I can finally announce the very first Columnstore & Memory-Optimised Tables Workshop in the USA: on the 31st of October 2016 the Columnstore & Memory-Optimised Workshop will...
View ArticleMOSL – Memory Optimised Scripts Library
SQL Server 2014 was one amazing release, which had a very interesting codename – “Hekaton”, meaning that the principal news in that release were the Memory-Optimised tables (aka In-Memory, aka...
View ArticleColumnstore Indexes – part 88 (“Minimal Logging in SQL Server 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 87 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. Getting Data into the Database is one essential process, no matter if you are working...
View ArticleColumnstore Indexes – part 89 (“Memory-Optimised Columnstore Limitations 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 88 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. I would like to dedicate this blog post to the Memory-Optimised (also known and LOVED as...
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Co-Delivering a full-day precon on SQLBits
This week I have got some very exciting news – together with Andreas Wolter I will be delivering a full-day precon at the biggest European Microsoft Data Platform Conference – SQLBits. On 17th of July...
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Hekaton 2014 – The Saviour vs The Lost Cause
With the release of the SQL Server 2014, Microsoft has finally unleashed their long-time in work In-Memory solution (codenamed XTP for Extreme Transaction Processing, old codename Hekaton). Note: I...
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SQLKonferenz 2015
If you are looking for one of the most awesome and most import conferences in Europe, then surely you need to take a deep look into SQLKonferenz in Germany. Organised by German PASS, this conference is...
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Columnstore 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...
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Columnstore Indexes – part 72 (“InMemory Operational Analytics”)
Continuation from the previous 71 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. I have previously written on the Rowstore Operational Analytics, and now it is the time...
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CISL 1.4.0 is released
Another happy release of the CISL (Columnstore Indexes Script Library) is live – this time it is 1.4.0! This release is focusing on the addition of the Extended Events, so that a user of CISL can...
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Announcing Preview Release of MOSL
The MOSL – Memory Optimised Scripts Library has finally received a first public preview release – the version 0.2.0! This version introduces the initial support for Memory Optimised Objects on SQL...
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SQL Server 2016 SP1 – Programmability Surface for everyone!
This is the most important blog post about SQL Server that I have ever written. As far as I am concerned this is the most epic moment in the history of the SQL Server since its inception (yeah, you...
View ArticleSQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 – What’s New
With the release of the most epic Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2016, the biggest attention of everyone should be drawn to the programmability surface that was brought on the same level for Enterprise,...
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Columnstore Indexes – part 90 (“In-Memory Columnstore Improvements in Service...
Continuation from the previous 89 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. This blog post is focusing on a very important improvement to the limitation of the...
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Columnstore Indexes – part 92 (“Lobs”)
Continuation from the previous 91 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. Since the very first version of the Columnstore Indexes in 2012, there has been no...
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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 very important feature in the modern times of the real...
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Parallelism in Hekaton (In-Memory OLTP)
Recently I have made some very interesting discoveries about Hekaton (aka In-Memory OLTP) that I felt absolutely necessary to share with the world. I assume that the most people already know about this...
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Columnstore Indexes – part 119 (“In-Memory Columnstore Location”)
Continuation from the previous 118 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. This is a rather simple blog post that is dedicated to the theme of the In-Memory...
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Columnstore Indexes – part 121 (“Columnstore Indexes on Standard Tier of...
Continuation from the previous 120 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. Yesterday, Kevin Farlee (Program Manager for Columnstore Indexes) announced that...
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Batch Mode – part 4 (“Some of the limitations”)
This blog post is a part of the whole Batch Mode series, which can be found at the Nikoport Batch Mode page. This post will focus on some of the initial limitations of the Batch Execution Mode on the...
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ETL Optimisation Workshop @ SQLBits 2019
The biggest in the Europe & the craziest (in the very best sense) in the World conference for the Microsoft Data Platform has always been the SQLBits. I can not deny that every year I can, I am...
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Database Scoped Configurations in 2018
What would be a good candidate for the very first blog post in 2019? The blog post I started writing in 2018 and did not finish. To be more precise I was planning & opened a draft with some notes...
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