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The PASS Performance Virtual Chapter has a tradition of yearly “Palooza events”, in which there are a few back-to-back online performance sessions by great speakers from all around the world. I have the honor to speak in this year’s Performance Palooza, which will take place this Thursday, July 23. I will speak about Columnstore, a technology that fascinates me and is a true game changer. The session is called Columnstore Indexes – Questions and Answers (click here to registe

Thanks to everyone who attended my 24 Hours of PASS session, The Data Loading Performance Presentation. It was a lot of fun taking part in such a special event. The slide deck and scripts I used in the session can be downloaded here. #sessions #performance #community #PASS

This past Wednesday, I delivered my session, “Query Progress Tracking in SQL Server” to the DBA Virtual Chapter. The session covers many techniques for tracking the progress of queries and processes. I also talked about very nice features that were added in SQL Server 2014 and SQL Server 2016. The slide deck and demos can be found here. #sessions #performancetuning #community

It’s been a great a busy week. On Wednesday, I presented my session, “Query Progress Tracking in SQL Server” at SQLRally in Copenhagen. On Thursday, I presented my session, “The Data Loading Performance Presentation”, at SQLBits in London. Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions. I had a lot of fun in both of them. Below are the download links for slides and demos: Query Progress Tracking in SQL Server The Data Loading Performance Presentation #sessions #community #confer

Next week, I’m going to visit London and Copenhagen for SQLBits and SQLRally Nordic. It’s going to be intense and fun. SQLRally On Wednesday, March 4, at 4:45PM, I’ll deliver my session “Query Progress Tracking in SQL Server” at SQLRally in Copenhagen. The session talks about a big pain in our job: How can we know when a certain process will finish its execution? It covers the ways SQL Server allows us to track the progress of processes and queries, and exposes some fun inter

Last week, Boris Hristov (b|t), the organizer of #SQLHangout, invited William Durkin (b|t) and me to a SQL Hangout about transitioning from being a DBA to being a consultant. We had a great conversation and covered a lot of issues. Among them: What skills are important as a consultant In what ways being a consultant is different, and in what ways it’s the same What complex situations you might face, and how to tackle them Interesting projects each of us currently works on Bod

I have been working with SQL Server for the past 17 years, and in the past few years I have been also very involved in the SQL Server community in Israel and around the world. I love SQL Server, and I also love the community around SQL Server, which is quite unique among technology groups. People in this community are really looking for ways to share with others and learn from others. This is why they call it the “SQL Family”. Last week I was informed by Microsoft that I have

I was invited to take part in a new initiative conceived by Boris Hristov (Blog|Twitter). Boris wants to start using the Google Hangouts video calls in the SQL Server community, and we had a nice chat about where and how this platform can fit between the other platforms and events taking part in the community. I’m not satisfied with my “performance” in the video, but I guess that’s how it is the first time you shoot a video and publish it. I wrote some notes down so my next v