[OT] Alive and kicking

16 years ago

Wow! Would you believe that it’s almost five months since my last blog post? How time flies.

No, I have not forgotten about you. I know you’ve all been faithfully checking the site (or your feed) each day, maybe even each hour, to get my next post. What can I say? I’m sorry for keeping you waiting so long.

The truth is, that I have been very, very busy. Lots of time has been spent on work (for without work, there will be no salary and hence no way to feed the family) and family (for why bother working hard to feed them if I can’t enjoy my time with them). And out of the remaining spare time, large chunks have been allocated to tech editing the next edition of Paul Nielsen’s SQL Server Bible. And apart from that, there are also a few hobby’s and interests that have nothing to do with SQL Server and that I will therefore not share with you J.

I hope to be able to post a bit more in the future. I plan to publish some of my thoughts on database design. But I have not forgotten about the unfinished “bin packing” series I started late last year – at least two more installments are planned there. And apart from that, I have various ideas and snippets collected. So if time permits, you can expect to see a bit more from me in the future.

Hugo Kornelis

Hugo Kornelis is an established SQL Server Community expert. He writes, blogs, speaks, tech edits, and researches, focusing mostly on SQL Server performance and execution plans. He was the technical editor for the third edition of Grant Fritchey's "SQL Server Execution Plans". In 2018 he started a project to document all behaviour of SQL Server execution plans at his website, "the SQL Server Execution Plan Reference" (https://sqlserverfast.com/epr) When not working for the community, Hugo is busy at his day job: freelance database developer/consultant. Hugo has over 20 years of experience on SQL Server in various roles. He has a strong database design background but has since specialized into query tuning and execution plans.