Hugo Kornelis has passed away:
Unfortunately, this will be the final post on my father’s blog. Yesterday, Hugo passed away peacefully, on November 3rd at 9:45 AM. He really wanted to prepare this final blog himself, but time caught up to him. I cannot write as eloquently as he could, but I will try my best to share his final two weeks here. I will write openly about what was going on with Hugo, as that is how he would have written it. I want to repeat the earlier warning my father used to add to all posts about his leukemia, especially these final moments may be hard to read.
It’s sad that we lost such a great man in the SQL Server world. I am glad that Hugo was able to complete his masterpiece before then, and that it will continue beyond him.
Hugo presented for our SQL Server user group (the Triangle Area SQL Server Users Group) twice, in 2024. One talk was on the internals of a hash spill, and the other was about debugging without a debugger.
Thank you for all you ever did, Hugo.