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Bleeding Edge 2012 – session material

Hugo Kornelis — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:46:00 GMT

As promised, here are the slide deck and demo code I used for my presentation at the Bleeding Edge 2012 conference in Laško, Slovenia. Okay, I promised to have them up by Tuesday or Wednesday at worst, and it is now Saturday – my apologies for the delay....(read more)

SQLRally Nordic 2012 – session material

Hugo Kornelis — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:49:00 GMT

As some of you might know, I have been to SQLRally Nordic 2012 in Copenhagen earlier this week. I was able to attend many interesting sessions, I had a great time catching up with old friends and meeting new people, and I was allowed to present a session...(read more)

Upcoming speaking engagements – want to meet me?

Hugo Kornelis — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:28:00 GMT

I have a very busy time ahead of me, with lots of travel, lots of speaking engagements, and hence lots of opportunity to meet and catch up with what has become known as the SQL Family. (An excellent term, by the way – it describes exactly how it has always...(read more)

Slides and demo code for Columnstore Index session

Hugo Kornelis — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:58:00 GMT

Almost a week has passed after SQLBits X in London , so I guess it’s about time for me to share the slides and demo code of my session on columnstore indexes. After all, I promised people I would do that – especially when I found out that I had enough...(read more)

Busy months ahead

Hugo Kornelis — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:48:01 GMT

Almost two months have passed since my last blog post. And while it’s true that I’ve had (much) longer breaks, I do have a good reason now. All the time that I would normally at least in part spend on preparing new blog posts is now reserved for preparing...(read more)

Principles of Modeling: the Reproducibility Principle

Hugo Kornelis — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:48:07 GMT

A year or so ago, I watched a few episodes of a Dutch television program that had an interesting format. The name of the series was (or is, I have no idea if it still runs) “Sterren op het doek” (“Stars on Canvas”). Every episode featured a Dutch celebrity,...(read more)

Speaking at PASS

Hugo Kornelis — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:22:51 GMT

Are you planning to attend this year’s PASS Community Summit? There’s only three weeks left before the pre-conference seminars kick off, so if you’re not registered yet, now is the time to act!

The session schedule shows two days with seven full-day pre-conference seminars each, followed by three days packed full of high-quality sessions – with four time slots per day, over three days, and twelve sessions in parallel at each time slot, you problem will not be finding sessions that are of interest to you, but rather choosing between them.

And you will be able to see and hear me speaking at two of those sessions.

On Wednesday, I will be one of the participants in Much Ado: A Panel Discussion About “Nothing”, a debate between several MVPs and SQLBloggers about the always heated subject of NULL.
On Thursday, I’ll present “Cursors or setbased? Why not both?”. In this session, I’ll show that using cursors or a set-based query is not an either or decision; but that there are ways to combine the strengths of both approaches into a (sometimes!) winning strategy.

(Please note that I’m not sure if the session schedule is final or still subject to change)

So if you are at PASS, I hope that you’ll decide to drop in on either or both of those sessions. But even if you don’t, I still look forward to meeting you – so if you see me passing by and want to shake hands or exchange some opinions, don’t hesitate to catch me!

Upcoming speaking events

Hugo Kornelis — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:54:12 GMT

I know I’ve been neglecting my blog lately, but I at least have a valid excuse this time. Four weeks ago, I received two emails on a single day, both inviting me to speak at two different Dutch events that will be held in the same week.

I replied “yes” to both mails, and since have been preparing my sessions. For those readers who would like to catch me speaking, I’ll give the details below.

For the “Software Developer Conference 2007”, to be held in Arnhem, the Netherlands on the 17^th and 18^th of September, I’ll deliver two sessions:

“Verbeter de performance van je database in zeven simpele stappen” (Seven simple steps toward improving performance of your database).
“CLR User-defined types in SQL Server 2005”

And for the meeting of the Dutch PASS chapter, to be held in Amsterdam in the evening of the 20^th of September, I’ll deliver a single session:

“Aan de slag met SQL Server Service Broker” (Getting started with SQL Server Service Broker).

Note that all sessions will be held in Dutch, so if you don’t speak Dutch, you’d probably better go to Denver instead.

Going to Dublin

Hugo Kornelis — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:38:00 GMT

I still lack the time to blog about proper hardcore SQL stuff, but I do want to make a quick post to let you all know about a great conference that I’ll be attending and speaking at.

I’m talking about the Irish Microsoft Technology Conference, to be held in Dublin, Ireland later this week (June 7^th, to be precise). I am particularly excited about this conference, not only because it marks my first speaking engagement outside the Netherlands, but also because (unlike some other conferences I have attended) there is actually a pretty decent number of SQL Server related sessions.

Simon Sabin (SQL Server MVP) will deliver a talk on using Service Broker to process work asynchronously,
Alan Crowley has a presentation on Visual Studio for Database Professionals (The Artist Formerly Known As Datadude)
And I even get the stage twice; my first session tries to help you understand how indexes can speed up (or slow down) query execution, and my other sessions explores the possibilities and impossibilities of CLR User-Defined Types.

The conference will be held in three rooms, so there are plenty of other sessions to choose from. But even if you are only interested in SQL Server, this conference is pretty good value for money – for only € 50, you have the chance to attend no less than four SQL Server oriented sessions (in the preliminary version of the agenda I received, none of them overlap). Plus, you get to experience the great weather of the British Isles! J

If you want to attend, book now – I have no idea how long you have left until they’re sold out!