Boris Hristov

Founder of 356labs

Founder of 356labs
and PowerPoint MVP.
Speaker, Trainer & Author.
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Hangout #26 BIML in the real world!

December 17, 2014 By Boris Hristov Leave a Comment

SQLHangout 26 is here and I suggest we call this “The Christmas SQLHangout”! This one is special and it’s special because of one simple reason – I had not one, not two, but 4 guests with me – Cathrine Wilhemsen(t|b|h), Regis Baccaro(t|b), Rasmus Reinholdt(t|b|h) and Joao Lopez(t|b)! Some of you may have already seen the hangouts with Cathrine and Rasmus, but trust me – you have to see this one. In number 26 we discussed BIML and how it was used in a real world projects. So enjoy watching and enjoy learning about BIML – a technology that will be part of every business intelligence project very soon…

Filed Under: SQL Server, SQLHangouts Tagged With: BIML, Business Intelligence, SQLHangouts, SSIS, XML

T-SQL Tuesday #61 –
Giving Back

December 9, 2014 By Boris Hristov 1 Comment

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Giving back. Community. Words that we in our SQLFamily use a lot. What’s more – we not just use them because they are cool, we fill them with meaning because I bet there is no other community that shares and helps each other that much. I know there are a lot who do that, but as much as we do – please show it to me.

This month’s #TSQL2SDAY is all about how each one of us plans to start or continue his contribution and here is how I see this aspect of my life(sounds serious, huh?) as there are a lot of things coming for the new year…

During 2014 I did amazing number of international presentations – around 20! I did all of those all on my expenses, but I regret NONE! I also did a lot of Twitter #sqlhelp stuff, blogging and of course – I continued the SQLHangouts videos. For 2015 I will keep it simple – I will just continue all of those above. I am just not completely sure whether or not I will be able to travel that much, but let’s hope I will be. “It depends” on a lot of stuff as we like to say. The cool thing is that if I am not able to travel, it will be because of a seriously cool reasons that I am keeping in secret for now.

So that’s my plan for 2015. SQLFamily will continue to be a priority in my list and let’s hope we will continue to see more and more amazing professionals joining, giving away and helping it too.

Thanks, Wayne for hosting and have a great holiday days, all! I have one more SQLSaturday to cover! Hope to see some of you there! 🙂

Filed Under: SQL Server, SQLHangouts Tagged With: Conferences, SQL Server Community, SQLFamily, SQLSaturday, T-SQL Tuesday

Hangout #25 SQL Server Indexing

November 18, 2014 By Boris Hristov Leave a Comment

SQLHangout #25 is a special one as I was joined by Tim Ford(b|t) who you may already know for one reason or another. If you don’t know him, however, Tim is the founder of SQLCruise, President of PASS and much, much more! In this hangout we talked about indexing strategies and Tim shared some really practical insights from his experience of troubleshooting and fixing performance problems. We also talked about 3rd party apps, filtered indexes and companies that are trying to make everything work with 2GB of RAM. Last, but not at least we discussed the fact that SQLCruise is actually coming to Europe! I really think you will enjoy the video, so free up 30 minutes from your busy day, watch and let me know what you think.

Filed Under: SQL Server, SQLHangouts Tagged With: Columnstore Index, Indexing Strategies, Performance Tuning, SQLHangouts, Teradata, Third-Party Software

T-SQL Tuesday #60 –
Learning…

November 11, 2014 By Boris Hristov 3 Comments

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At the moment of writing this blog post, I am at the MVP Summit in one of the hundreds of buildings of Microsoft in Redmond. I am listening to a very interesting session on how organisations collaborate with their partners and yes, I am learning some new things. However, I want to focus on something else in this blog post and not on what I have learned recently, even though I learned quite some stuff and quite interesting (some of which I cannot even talk about). So here’s the deal…

I am a trainer and a speaker and I have a lot of friends who are also doing both of those as either their hobby or as part of their work. We all, however, listen to or participate in various other events – be that seminars, webinars, podcasts or conference sessions. Most of the times we(bare with me – that post is also for you even if you are not trainer / speaker / both) go or enrol for one of those even if they are on a topic it is clear to us we know very well. And now the question is Why? Why are we spending our time(when no one nowadays have enough of it) and listen to something which we already know? Why!? And the answer is this:

Because we want to hear
another approach to the problem.

In other words:

We want to see if there is a more simplistic way of explaining the solution of a problem than ours.

And that’s the moment when this starts to apply to everyone because we all work in teams. We all collaborate. We all try (or at least we should try) to help each other. If you are able to communicate and explain something to someone in a way – the most simplistic one – that makes his life easier, than you are on the right track, let’s call it this way. So always, always, always try to search for a new approaches to a problem. Always strive to see and double check – is there a better way of explaining something because that is how you learn and that is one more way you advance your skills.

Thanks for hosting #60, Chris! Looking forward to the summary blog post already!

Filed Under: SQL Server, SQLHangouts Tagged With: Soft Skills, T-SQL Tuesday

Hangout #24 Unit Testing in SQL Server

October 30, 2014 By Boris Hristov 1 Comment

SQLHangout 24 is here and if you are a developer(or if you are a DBA too!) – listen and learn from it! I was joined by Ed Elliott(b|t) and he opened my eyes about what is and why do we need unit testing in SQL Server. Ed shared his experience on integration and unit tests and what is the difference between them and how we should approach the two. You will also learn about how you should handle your unit tests and what you can also do if you are a bit more advanced already in the subject. Last, but not at least, Ed recommended some great resources you can learn from. One of them (and I completely agree) is Simple Talk. The others are tSQLt(unit testing framework) and Microsoft’s recommendations on testing. Check them out and I hope you enjoy the video!

Filed Under: SQL Server, SQLHangouts Tagged With: SQLHangouts, T-SQL, Unit Testing

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