I am not a fan of the awards & prizes (and there will be soon a blog post on this topic), but there is something important I wanted to share and for a good reason. There is a huge lack…
The Data Platform blog of the year 2017
45º
A lot has been written on the efforts and the respective necessary amounts of it to be applied, and I wanted to contribute with my own thoughts. Mostly because I keep on passing the tipping point of what is reasonable…
Error Messages
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,…
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 https://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…