20+ years ago I have discovered something something important about how I see people giving permissions to other people being themselves (André Hamaoka, if you are reading this post – this is a logical continuation of our long conversation last…
Talent vs Hard Work (80×20 vs 20×80)
This post is about the impact of the talent versus the impact of the hard work. There has been a lot of conversations about how talented some people are (and some direct pointing to some exceptional athletes), and how no…
Modern Engineer & Scientist (are they at all?)
Talking to the parents of my daughter friends a couple of weeks ago (one of them is a principal researcher for a well-known organisation and the other one is a successful entrepreneur), we have touched on something that was dear…
Columnstore Indexes – part 128 (“Ordering Columnstore Indexes in Azure SQL Datawarehouse”)
Continuation from the previous 127 parts, the whole series can be found at https://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. First of all and before everything else, I would like to extend my gratitude to Xiaoyu Li (Microsoft PM) for taking her time and exchanging long…