SQL Saturday Nepal 2017
- Madeira Team
- Dec 23, 2017
- 2 min read
I had the honor to visit Nepal and participate in SQL Saturday Nepal 2017. You can visit the event website here. I presented a session about “How to Use Parameters Like a Pro and Boost Performance”. From my experience, one of the common reasons for poor performance is the wrong use of parameters in queries. In this session, I demonstrated how to identify these cases and how to correctly use parameters in order to boost application performance.
The Nepali people are very kind. I had a great audience – around 100 people – and I enjoyed presenting this session very much. I would like to thank my wonderful audience for participating in my session. If you attended my session (and also if you didn’t), you can download all the session materials from here.
In addition to my session, there were several other excellent sessions. Gogula Aryalingam presented a session about the “Why, What and How of Power BI”. Virendra Yaduvanshi presented a session about the SQL Server transaction log. Jonathan Stewart (whom I had the pleasure to spend some quality time with) presented a session about “Performance Tuning for the BI Professional”. Anil Maharjan presented a session about data visualization with R in Power BI. And finally, Shree Khanal, who did an excellent job in organizing this event, presented a session about “SQL Server 2016 Advanced Security”.
But even before the event itself, which took place on Saturday, I had the honor to deliver two full day pre-conference sessions. The first was about big data and Hadoop fundamentals. The second was about SQL Server best practices. I had a wonderful time, and I enjoyed the interaction with the audience.
Special thanks to the organizers of SQL Saturday Nepal 2017 – Shree Khanal, Dibya Tara Shakya, and all the others. Thank you for inviting me and for the wonderful hospitality. Now that the event is over, I look forward to another week in Nepal. I’m going to do some trekking with Shree, Jonathan and others.
I liked how you emphasized the collaborative aspects of the event, which really paints a clear picture for readers who couldn’t attend. I recently came across a discussion on a similar tech-focused review blog, and it offered an interesting perspective, reminiscent of the insights shared on https://southerndry.com/. This post is a great resource for anyone in the data community.
This post about SQL Saturday Nepal 2017 is really engaging! I enjoyed reading about your experience presenting on parameter usage and performance optimization — the way you shared both the technical insights and your interaction with the audience made it very relatable. The personal touches about the Nepali people and trekking afterward made it feel like a full experience, not just a technical report. I recently came across a similar discussion on a shrimpupaquatics blog https://shrimpupaquatics.com/, which highlighted learning through hands-on experiences, and it offered another interesting perspective on community-driven events.
Really enjoyed this post — it’s inspiring to see such a well-organized tech event bringing together SQL Server professionals and enthusiasts in Nepal. I especially appreciated the focus on practical sessions like parameter optimization and performance tuning, which are so useful for real-world applications. I recently came across a discussion on https://www.sherwaytrilliumdental.ca/ about community learning events, and it offered some interesting perspectives on knowledge sharing too.