Niko Neugebauer

Niko Neugebauer works as Tech Leader at Finsolutia. With over 20 years of experience in IT, he is passionate about Data Platform and Community. Founder of the Portuguese SQL Server User Group, the main organizer of the first SQLSaturday outside of North America – #78 Portugal, Niko presented at a lot of events such as PASS Summit, SQLRally, SQLBits, SQLSaturdays around the world. He loves sharing and is an author of blog series with 120+ posts on the Columnstore Indexes, plus the free & open-sourced CISL library helping everyone to work with Columnstore Indexes.

Niko Neugebauer's Sessions

Copiloting an ETL solutionSQLBits 2026

Discover how Github Copilot can help you not just solving a simple problem, but rather write a complete ETL solution while not requiring you writing much of the T-SQL code. Starting with the very basics of the structure definition, going through the ETL process, delivering data quality checks - we got it all! This presentation is based on the real-world case, delivered successfully in production.

What's new in Columnstore for SQL Server 2022/2025SQLBits 2026

Discover what is new in SQL Server 2022 / 2025 for the Columnstore Indexes and Batch Execution Mode. Driven by the examples let's review the latest improvements in the Columnstore technology and its integration with the new data types such as JSON and VECTOR, new math functions and much more.