There is something very special about the error messages. The quality of the error messages is the most direct reflection about the internal state of the product. It is a kind of an external image of the inner product quality,…
Error Messages
Mentors
Mentor became quite a popular word to use in the world of business in the past 40-50 years, with most of the big companies using & abusing this role for anything and everything – mentors for the new company hire,…
Columnstore Indexes – part 122 (“Wait Types”)
Continuation from the previous 121 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. First of all, I would love to express deep gratitude to Vassilis Papadimos (Software Engineer @ Microsoft) and Joe Sack (Principal Program Manager @ Microsoft) for…
Lifehack
“When everyone is a superhero – noone is.” It seems that humanity desperately expects some magic trick to exist, a magic “Turbo” button on the Hardware, “FASTER” hint, some specific shortcut that will bring us in front of the crowd.…
Columnstore Indexes – part 121 (“Columnstore Indexes on Standard Tier of Azure SQL DB”)
Continuation from the previous 120 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/. Yesterday, Kevin Farlee (Program Manager for Columnstore Indexes) announced that Columnstore Indexes have finally found their way into Standard Tier of the Azure SQL Database, I…