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SQL Pass Summit 2018: SQL Server 2019 features coming soon!

It’s the 20th anniversary of the event and the keynote today was amazing (see the blog from Christophe) for different reasons but the more important is that is every time better people. Not(…)

Pass Summit – dbi visit day 4 (2)

Power BI 5 top custom visuals The development of Power BI itself is fast. But, the means to represent data is too. I mean there are constantly new Power BI custom visuals developed by the community and Microsoft. You(…)

Pass summit – day 4

Optimizing Multi-Billion Row Tables in Tabular in 2018   I wanted to attend the session moderated by Marco Russo to see his approach of optimizing performance in Tabular model The first thing to understand is how the data is(…)

Pass summit – dbi visit day 3

The Microsoft data platform is evolving The third day began with the Keynote help by Rohan Kumar the Corporate Vice President of Azure Data by Microsoft The main message was “Hybrid data platform is the way for the(…)

SQL server security pre-conference @SQL Pass Summit 2018 in Seattle

After long hours of flights, Christophe Cosme and I finally arrived in Seattle at the SQL PASS Summit 2018. We picked up our badge and bag and now we are ready to begin… This first day for me(…)

Pass summit – dbi visit day 2

  The Art and Science of Designing Smart Data story This pre-conference session was moderated by Mico Yuk CEO and founder of BI Brainz Mico drove us through the path of BI data visual storytelling and the importance it(…)

Pass summit – dbi visit day 1

Designing Modern Data and Analytic Solution in Azure After having explained the pros and cons of Azure and the decision drivers for going to an Azure Architecture, some interesting messages were delivered like the decoupling of the storage(…)

A Graphical Overview of a Repository

As the saying goes, “A Picture Is Worth A Thousands Words”. I’d add “And A Simple Graph Is Worth A Long, Abstruse List of Numbers”. And of words too, so let’s show off a little bit:(…)

Some more zheap testing

Hervé already did some tests with zheap and documented his results yesterday. After some more discussions with Amit who did the session about zHeap at the conference here in Lisbon (you can(…)

5 mistakes you should avoid with Oracle Database Appliance

Introduction It has been 5 years I’m working on ODA and I now have a quite good overview of the pros and the cons of such a solution. On one hand, ODA can greatly streamline your Oracle Database environment if(…)