Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 34 (“Deleted Segments Elimination”)
Continuation from the previous 33 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ Segment Elimination for Deleted Row Groups After some very...
View ArticleClustered Columnstore Indexes – part 35 (“Trace Flags & Query Optimiser Rules”)
Continuation from the previous 34 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2014/07/20/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-34-deleted-segments-elimination/ This blog post is about controlling some of...
View ArticleClustered Columnstore Indexes – part 36 (“Maintenance Solutions for...
Continuation from the previous 35 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ At the 12th Edition of SQLBits around 1 week ago I have had a short...
View ArticleBatch Mode – part 1 (“The Beginning”)
This is the very first blog post in a new series on the Batch Mode, welcome & enjoy! I will be going into every detail of Batch Mode that I know off in the upcoming blog posts (yes, there will…
View ArticleClustered Columnstore Indexes – part 37 (“Deleted Bitmap & Delta-Store Sizes”)
Continuation from the previous 36 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ Since the very first CTP beta, I have been asking for some kind of...
View ArticleClustered 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 matter of the...
View ArticleClustered Columnstore Indexes – part 39 (“Memory in Action”)
Continuation from the previous 38 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ In this post I shall try to discover more interesting information...
View ArticleClustered Columnstore Indexes – part 40 (“Compression Algorithms”)
Continuation from the previous 39 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ It’s time to take a look into the algorithms that Microsoft is...
View ArticleClustered Columnstore Indexes – part 41 (“Statistics”)
Continuation from the previous 40 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ Note: This article is in’s 2nd version, after correcting comments...
View ArticleClustered Columnstore Indexes – part 42 (“Materialisation”)
Continuation from the previous 41 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ Important Disclaimer – I have started writing this blog post over 1...
View ArticleClustered Columnstore Indexes – part 43 (“Transaction Log Basics”)
Continuation from the previous 42 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ This post is dedicated to the Transaction Log behaviour, which...
View ArticleClustered Columnstore Indexes – part 44 (“Monitoring with Extended Events”)
Continuation from the previous 43 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ This post is dedicated to the monitoring aspects of the Columnstore...
View ArticleClustered Columnstore Indexes – part 45 (“Multi-Dimensional Clustering”)
Continuation from the previous 44 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ I have blogged a couple times (part 29 – “Data Loading for Better...
View ArticleAzure Columnstore, part 1 – The initial preview offering
With today’s announcement on the availability and support of the Columnstore indexes in the Preview version of Azure SQLDatabase, I am opening a new subseries in my Columnstore – Azure Columnstore. If...
View ArticleAzure Columnstore, part 2 – Snapshot Isolation & Batch Mode DOP
Welcome to the 2nd blog post in the Azure Columnstore series, as previously mentioned in the Azure Columnstore, part 1 – The initial preview offering. If you are interested in all the articles, feel...
View ArticleClustered Columnstore Indexes – part 46 (“DateTime compression and performance”)
Continuation from the previous 45 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ At the last SQLPort event in December 2014, I have listened to a...
View ArticleAttending and Speaking at SQLBits XIV
The SQLBits conference has a special place in my heart – as I have written before, the previous edition of SQLBits was the best conference I have ever attended. I have already publicly declared that I...
View ArticleClustered Columnstore Indexes – part 47 (“Practical Monitoring with Extended...
Continuation from the previous 46 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ This post is a continuation from the the post 44, where I have...
View ArticleClustered Columnstore Indexes – part 48 (“Improving Dictionary Pressure”)
Continuation from the previous 47 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ This post is dedicated to one of the most complex problems in...
View ArticleClustered Columnstore Indexes – part 49 (“Data Types & Predicate Pushdown”)
Continuation from the previous 48 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/ Having blogged a couple of times on the matters of Segment...
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