The biggest in the Europe & the craziest (in the very best sense) in the World conference for the Microsoft Data Platform has always been the SQLBits. I can not deny that every year I can, I am delighted to…
ETL Optimisation Workshop @ SQLBits 2019
T-Shirts & Community Events
Do you speak at a lot of conferences? How many t-shirts do you collect per year? How many of them are you wearing and how many of them stay in the closets / given away right after the end of…
Columnstore Precon at SQLSaturday Madrid 2018
I am very honoured to share that I will be presenting a full day workshop at SQLSaturday Madrid 2018. The title of my workshop is set to “Optimised Analytics: Tune your Data Warehouse with Columnstore Indexes” and here is the…
Free Speaker
First of all – most speakers I know are incredibly generous and inspiring individuals, who share their knowledge at paid and/or free events, with courage and precision that I can only admire. I guess that over the years there is…
The Price of the Free Entrance
The Tale True Story: Some long months ago, I was talking to someone who is a frequent attendee of the community events and who is a presenter at them as well, who shocked me to the bone with the following…