Publications

Building a Professional Development Plan

Sergio Govoni

Sul canale SQLPASS TV, continua la pubblicazione delle sessioni erogate al PASS Summit 2011. Questa settimana è stata pubblicata la sessione Building a Professional Development Plan tenuta da Andy Warren.

Abstract

Ready to take the next step in your career? Ready to build a plan that will get you there? This session will show you a process for building a comprehensive professional development plan - a road map to get to where you want to go! This session is designed to help you build a professional development plan using the same techniques that are used for building business plans. We’ll talk about obtaining and managing resources, setting realistic goals, tracking progress, and what to do when you get off plan. We’re going to look at more than pure technical learning. We’ll discuss how and when to modify your plan to include networking, writing, social engagement, and managing and leadership skills - and talk about the most effective ways to do it. We’ll touch lightly on the value of a mentor and ways to find a good mentor. We will also discuss changing how you look at your career, adopting the mindset of the consultant even if you prefer to retain your status as an employee. It’s not an easy change, but it’s a powerful one, and that is an important component of a professional development plan. At the end of this session you should be ready to spend a day building a plan that will help you move your career forward to a goal that you’ve selected.

Microsoft Community Wiki in Italiano

Sergio Govoni

Il termine “Wiki” deriva dalla lingua hawaiana e significa “veloce”, “efficiente”, “rapido”. Mantenendo il suo significato originale, nel corso degli anni questo termine è entrato a far parte del mondo informativo dove viene utilizzato per caratterizzare contenuti “efficienti”, che permettono di risolvere rapidamente un problema, e che sono aggiornati anche dagli utilizzatori stessi.

Query Tuning Mastery

Sergio Govoni

Sul canale SQLPASS TV, continua la pubblicazione delle sessioni erogate al PASS Summit 2011. Questa settimana è stata pubblicata la sessione “Query Tuning Mastery: Zen and the Art of Workspace Memory” tenuta da Adam Machanic.

Abstract

As SQL Server professionals, we often think of memory in vague, instance-level terms: buffer pool, procedure cache, Virtual Address Space, and so on. But certain tasks require a more in-depth focus, and query tuning is one of them. Large, complex queries need memory in which to work –workspace memory– and understanding the how’s, when’s, and why’s of this memory can help you create queries that run in seconds rather than minutes. This session will teach you how to guide the query processor to grant enough memory for top performance, while also keeping things balanced for the sake of concurrency. You will learn advanced monitoring techniques, expert-level application of specialized query hints, and the memory internals needed to put it all together. If you work with large queries and are serious about achieving scalability and consistently great performance, you owe it to yourself to attend this session.

No More Bad Dates

Sergio Govoni

Sul canale SQLPASS TV, continua la pubblicazione delle sessioni erogate al PASS Summit 2011. Questa settimana è stata pubblicata la sessione No More Bad Dates: Best Practices for Working with Dates and Times tenuta da Kendra Little (Managing Director, Brent Ozar Unlimited).

Abstract

Dates and times seem simple at first. Kendra Little will show you there’s more to it than you think. She’ll give you five best practices that will help you select the right temporal data type, avoid common issues, and use the most effective techniques to aggregate data. She’ll also explain painful problems with query performance and how to avoid them. Choose wisely: the correct types and high performing data access logic will scale like magic.

Libreria MSDN Italia: Articoli Tecnici (Maggio/Giugno 2013)

Sergio Govoni

Ogni mese, la libreria MSDN Italia si arricchisce di nuovi articoli tecnici scritti da esperti ed MVP Italiani, di seguito trovate i link degli articoli pubblicati nei mesi di Maggio e Giugno 2013.

Per la categoria SQL Server, segnalo l’articolo CREATE e DROP di colonne temporanee dedicato al problema che sta alla base del Messaggio di Errore 1714: