On July 25th Microsoft released the first cumulative update (#1) for SQL Server 2016. This is a good reason to celebrate. Usually we are...

This is also called the natural logarithm, which is approximately equal to to 2.718281828459… I like numbers: many numbers, huge numbers...

About 3 years ago Matan Yungman contacted me and said he has an interesting proposition. We met and talked about all kinds of things,...

A month ago, my wife and I were in Barcelona for a short vacation. In one of the days, we entered a small place called Wok to Walk for...

I’m excited to say that I will be delivering a session in this year’s PASS Summit in Seattle later this year! The session is called...

This post is for T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by Michael Swart (blog | twitter). This month’s topic is all about SQL Server 2016 I’ve been...

24 Hours of PASS coming up on May 25-26 We have challenged our team to choose one MUST SEE session, a session that there is no chance...

Last week I attended SQLBits 2016 in Liverpool. I had such a great time, and I would like to share it with you. I arrived on Tuesday...

One of my most favorite technologies is Columnstore. Thankfully, the guys at Microsoft seem to agree with me, because they continue...

Suppose you have a partition function and a corresponding partition scheme in SQL Server. The partition scheme maps each partition to a...