Continuation from the previous 132 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. In the Columnstore Indexes space, there is a long-standing “tradition” in Microsoft to ignore the needs of the customers for data replication. It has started with…
Continuation from the previous 131 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. Note: the original post was written on the 3rd of December 2025 in a moment of inspiration and a significant rewrite was done on the 7th…
This post is inspired by many long conversations with a good friend over the past couple of years. I do hope he reads this post and chuckles, before continuing our discussion at my favorite restaurant. I was about to write…
I have lost the number of times I have stepped away from blogging in the past 19 years. At least 3 times I remember coming back here with the fresh mission of restarting and this time is no different. Starting…
SQLBits is my favorite Data Platform event and with the disappearance of PASS as an organization, a great adjectives describing it as the biggest Microsoft Data Platform event in the world should be quite correct. Besides being the biggest and…