When our SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers book got published I ran to my grandma with a copy of the book for her blessings. Well, just like every grandma, she loves me, her grandson, unconditionally. She is not into the technology domain (obviously), but she loved the book. She read the first few pages where I was mentioned and read about my co-author Vinod Kumar. After reading the introduction she looked at me and said “When I was young we used to read books, now all those good books are converted into the movies, when do you think this book will be converted into a movie?“

Silence. A very long silence.

I just could not answer her right away.  As a matter of fact, I went into a deep thought. I never thought that she could actually ask me such question. It may be a very simple question, but I felt that it was very important to me. I was just stunned and speechless. I returned home from my grandma’s place, with her blessings and an interesting thought of a “Movie from the Book”. I just could not get this out of my mind.

Jan 24, 2012 - Movie from Book

I talked to my grandma very often, but since the last conversation my wife called her often and I did not talk to her at all. There was no reason to talk to her maybe because I constantly felt that she is with me. Her blessings were with me. I could not get her question out of my mind, still. I was extremely motivated and inspired from my last conversation with her. I called her early morning on January 24. Her very first questions were how I was doing and how was her great granddaughter. I told her that regarding our last conversation, there is actually a movie which is inspired from the book. Her very first reaction was that she knew this would happen as she was confident that my book would reach milestones. We talked for long hours.

Today – Fast Forward

Well, the book was an inspiration for the course, but the video course was developed using totally different angle. We made sure that we’d take the broader idea from the book but wanted present something unique and novel. Vinod Kumar and I thought about it for a long time. We wanted to decide on the format of our course. We spent hours talking about the course – how we could make it unique and give a different experience to every attendee. We wanted to keep the subject light enough to digest, yet deep enough to satisfy everyone’s learning eagerness. After spending some days and efforts for the preparation of the unique content and exceptional demos, the course has become a reality for us.

SQL Server Questions and Answers

This course is designed to help you have a better understanding on how to use SQL Server effectively. The course presents many of the common misconceptions about SQL Server, and then carefully debunks those misconceptions with clear explanations and short but compelling demos, showing you how SQL Server really works. This course is for anyone who works in SQL Server databases, and basically for those who want to improve their knowledge and understanding of this complex platform.

In this course, each topic starts with a question and ends with an answer which is supplemented with a demo. Every question has an exercise file and a demo associated with it. Additionally, in the very last session, we have covered lots of SSMS tips and tricks. Here are the topics we have covered in this course:

• Introduction
• Retrieving IDENTITY value using @@IDENTITY
• Concepts Related to Identity Values
• Difference between WHERE and HAVING
• Order in WHERE clause
• Concepts Around Temporary Tables and Table Variables
• Are stored procedures pre-compiled?
• UNIQUE INDEX and NULLs problem
• DELETE VS TRUNCATE
• Locks and Duration of Transactions
• Nested Transaction and Rollback
• Understanding Date/Time Datatypes
• Differences between VARCHAR and NVARCHAR datatypes
• Precedence of DENY and GRANT security permissions
• Identify Blocking Process
• NULLS usage with Dynamic SQL
• Appendix Tips and Tricks with Tools

Today we are very happy that our course is out. The journey from the book to the Training Course took 80 days and the experience was wonderful. In a future post, I will share the experience of writing book and building the training course.

In the end, we just want to thank YOU, our dear reader, who made this experience possible.

Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com)

• We can all learn about new feature of SQL Server 2012
• We can learn new feature of SQL Server 2012 while practicing on earlier version of SQL Server.

While I was creating question due to copy-paste error the question was not correctly created. In simple word – I made a mistake. This created some confusion and I feel bad about this. Here is what we will do. Please read the question again and attempt to answer the question which I have asked in the blog post.

Yesterday the give away was my SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers book. As the question was corrected after a while, the give away are now got sweeter.

• SQL Server Interview Questions and Answers book – 2 Copy
• 30 Days Online Training Material of Pluralsight. They have excellent learning resources – I have written my 6 hour learning experience over Learning SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services) Online in 6 Hours.

Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com)

My Learning

One weekend I decided to learn SQL Server Analysis Services. I woke up early in the morning at 6 AM and by 7 AM I was sitting with coffee at my dual screen monitor computer. I had a free subscription to Pluralsight so on one screen I turned on their Analysis Services Fundamentals course. This course is well organized and I attended first six modules by 1 PM. After having a quick lunch with my family, I reviewed all the tasks and lessons given in the course. As it was the weekend and I had properly digested all the concepts, I decided to continue the remaining four modules the next day. The next day, the same routine: I followed and finished all the remaining modules along with the exercises. At the end of six hours of video learning and practicing for more than 8 hours, I felt very comfortable with the subject. I re-discovered my knowledge of SSAS which I used to practice a few years ago, before I opted for performance tuning.

Course Details

You can read the official details of the course here yourself. Here is my view on this course. This course is very well structured. I have found many books and attended SSAS training where the training starts with Bottom Up Designing methodology. I have never had any course where the instructor started from Top Down Designing methodology. This course really got my attention as it covers the all the core concepts in a very reasonable time with crisp and clear instructions. After that it jumps to very easy to understand and follow-along demos where one can practice their skills. I am personally a big fan of the AdventureWorks database as that makes our life much easier and everybody has access to that database for free. Thanks to the instructor, Stacia, for using the same database for every single demonstration and exercise.

I have seen many demonstrations where someone takes an already-built cube and imports that into the system and starts explaining various concepts of the cube. I personally do the same when I have to demonstrate some cool new feature of the SSAS in a one hour presentation. However for in-depth learning, the whole game is different and I prefer to learn from the beginning. I prefer to learn how dimensions are built, how measures are categorized and how cubes are built from nothing. One always learns properly when the lesson is explained in structured manner. In this course Stacia has done the same thing – starting from no elements on screen and very quickly building all the modules from scratch. A perfect experience for beginners and experts.

Course Content

This course covers various topics and you can read all the documentations on the official course page. However, as an outline, here are the module names. I am also attaching the image which demonstrates that I have attended every single module of the course. If you stop the course any place during the lesson, when you come back the course content page tracks your progress; this is very convenient.

• Introduction to Analysis Services
• Dimensional Model Development
• Dimension Development I
• Dimension Development 2
• Cube Development I
• Cube Development 2
• Calculations 1
• Calculations 2
• Database Processing
• Security

Future Expectations

The title of the course says this is an Introduction to Analysis Services. However, I thought this was quite a comprehensive course. I am assuming that there will be another version of this course. Stacia  also hinted couple of times during the course what will be in the advanced course. Well, what I expect in the advanced course is that the quality and presentation stays the same.

One Last Thing

Well, when I watched this course – I only had an annual subscription. Since then I have upgraded to the Pluralsight Annual Plus subscription, which gives me complete access to all the files, exercises and downloadable videos. I just wish I had changed before I started this course as it changes the experience.

Win A 30 Day Subscription

I have one 30 day Pluralsight OnDemand learning subscription to give away. To win you just need to leave a comment to this blog post suggesting which course you want to take and why. One person will be randomly picked as a winner for this 30 day subscription.

Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com) 

You can watch the most popular SQL Server – TSQL course on Pluralsight On-Demand for FREE for the next 48 hours. It starts NOW!

The Story

Learning is always difficult. After learning how to apply your knowledge, learning in real life is even more difficult. Technology is moving faster than the speed of light and new technologies are always emerging – this is now the reality of the new technology world. Between all of this, I personally have very little time to learn new technology. I do not like eBooks (this statement warrants a whole new blog posts – some other time), I prefer regular books. It is becoming more and more difficult to carry around the books and read them with passion. It happened to me once that by the time I finished the book, there was a new version of the product out in the market.

Recently I noticed that I am reading more blogs than books. Blogs are great but they are not structured. Structured learning is the key when one wants to understand technology properly. From experience I have learned that watching videos at my convenience (on-demand) and following the labs along with the video is way easier. A good teacher cannot be replaced by 1,000 books. I find that I can learn fastest using online tutorial videos that are well structured.

All the attendees of the technology mega-event in India got free passes from Pluralsight On-Demand training. I watched two Pluralsight courses online and I found they are well structured and have lots of supporting material (lab, scripts, ppts). When I reported my good feedback to Pluralsight, they offered 48 hours free access to their MOST popular SQL Server – TSQL course, exclusively for SQLAuthority.com readers. I cannot let this offer pass when it can help so many of my readers.

The Beginning of the Real World

Try out the SQL Server – TSQL course right away as it is freely available for the next 48 hours only. Let me know your feedback about the course. This course is for every developer who uses SQL Server in their applications. It covers the fundamentals of using SQL Server from T-SQL to the CLR, to automating processing with SQL Server Integration services.

UPDATE: You do not need login or create account to watch T-SQL course. Just go to SQL Server – TSQL and click on links.

Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com)

I was just talking to my wife, Nupur – she manages my logistics and administration related activities – and she pointed out that this year I have done 62% consultations and 38% trainings. I was bit surprised as I thought the numbers would be reversed. Every time I review the year, I think of training done at organizations. Well, I cannot argue with reality, I have done more consultations (some would call them projects) than training.

I told my wife that I enjoy consultations more than training. She promptly asked me a question which was not directly related but made me think for long time, and in the end resulted in this blog post. Nupur asked me: what do I enjoy the most, public training or private training? I had a long conversation with her on this subject.

I am not going to write long blog post which can change your life here. This is rather a small post condensing my one hour discussion into 200 words.

Public Training is fun because…

• There are lots of different kinds of attendees
• There are always vivid questions
• Lots of questions on questions
• Less interest in theory and more interest in demos
• Good opportunity of future business

Private Training is fun because…

• There is a focused interest
• One question is discussed deeply because of existing company issues
• More interest in “how it happened” concepts – under the hood operations
• Good connection with attendees
• This is also a good opportunity of future business

Here I will stop my monologue and I want to open up this question to all of you:

Question to Attendees -

Which one do you enjoy the most – Public Training or Private Training?

Question to Trainers -

What do you enjoy the most – Public Training or Private Training?

Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com)

During my recent performance tuning seminar in Hyderabad, I presented on the subject of Views. During the seminar, one of the attendees asked a question:

We create a table and create a View on the top of it. On the same view, if we create Index, when querying View, will that index be used?

The answer is NOT Always!

(There is only one specific condition when it will be used. We will write about that later in the next post).

Let us see the test case for the same. In our script we will do following:

USE tempdb
GO
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.views WHERE OBJECT_ID = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[SampleView]'))
DROP VIEW [dbo].[SampleView]
GO
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE OBJECT_ID = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[mySampleTable]') AND TYPE IN (N'U'))
DROP TABLE [dbo].[mySampleTable]
GO
-- Create SampleTable
CREATE TABLE mySampleTable (ID1 INT, ID2 INT, SomeData VARCHAR(100))
INSERT INTO mySampleTable (ID1,ID2,SomeData)
SELECT TOP 100000 ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY o1.name),
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY o2.name),
o2.name
FROM sys.all_objects o1
CROSS JOIN sys.all_objects o2
GO
-- Create View
CREATE VIEW SampleView
WITH SCHEMABINDING
AS
SELECT ID1,ID2,SomeData
FROM dbo.mySampleTable
GO
-- Create Index on View
CREATE UNIQUE CLUSTERED INDEX [IX_ViewSample] ON [dbo].[SampleView]
(
ID2 ASC
)
GO
-- Select from view
SELECT ID1,ID2,SomeData
FROM SampleView
GO

Let us check the execution plan for the last SELECT statement.

You can see from the execution plan. That even though we are querying View and the View has index, it is not really using that index.

In the next post, we will see the significance of this View and where it can be helpful.

Meanwhile, I encourage you to read my View series: SQL SERVER – The Limitations of the Views – Eleven and more….

Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com)

SQL Server Performance Tuning Seminar in Colombo was oversubscribed with total of 35 attendees. You can read the details over here SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Performance Optimizations Seminar – Grand Success – Colombo, Sri Lanka – Oct 4 – 5, 2010.

SQL Server Performance Tuning Seminar in Hyderabad was oversubscribed with total of 25 attendees. You can read the details over here SQL SERVER – A Successful Performance Tuning Seminar – Hyderabad – Nov 27-28, 2010.

The same Seminar was offered in Pune on December 4,-5, 2010. We had another successful seminar with lots of performance talk. This seminar was attended by 30 attendees.

The best part of the seminar was that along with the our agenda, we have talked about following very interesting concepts.

• Deadlocks Detection and Removal
• Dynamic SQL and Inline Code SQL Optimizations
• Multiple OR conditions and performance tuning
• Dynamic Search Condition Building and Improvement
• Memory Cache and Improvement
• Bottleneck Detections – Memory, CPU and IO
• Beginning Performance Tuning on Production
• Parametrization
• Improving already Super Fast Queries
• Convenience vs. Performance
• Proper way to create Indexes
• Hints and Disadvantages

I had great time doing the seminar and sharing my performance tricks with all. The highlight of this seminar was I have explained the attendees, how I begin doing performance tuning when I go for Performance Tuning Consultations.

This seminar series are 100% demo oriented and no usual PowerPoint talk. They are created from my experiences of various organizations for performance tuning.

I am not planning any more seminar this year as it was great but I am booked currently for next 60 days at various performance tuning engagements.

Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com)

There is one thing very different between usual class room training and this seminar series. In this seminar series we go 100% demo oriented and real world scenario deep down. We do not talk usual theory talk-talk. The goal of this seminar to give anybody who attends a jump start and deep dive on the performance tuning subject. I will share many different examples and scenarios from my years of experience of performance tuning.

The beginning of the second day is always interesting as I take attendees the server as example of the talk, and together we will attempt to identify the bottleneck and see if we can resolve the same. So far I have got excellent feedback on this unique session, where we pick database of the attendees and address the issues. I plan to do the same again in next sessions.

The next Seminar is in Pune.I am very excited for the same.

Date and Time: December 4-5, 2010. 10 AM to 6 PM

The Pride Hotel
05, University Road,
Shivaji Nagar,
Pune – 411 005
Tel: 020 255 34567

Click here for the agenda of the seminar.

Instead of writing more details, I will let the photos do the talk for latest Hyderabad Seminar.

Hotel Amrutha Castle

King Arthur's Court

Pinal Presenting Seminar

Pinal Presenting Seminar

Seminar Attendees

Pinal Presenting Seminar

Group Photo of Hyderabad Seminar Attendees

Seminar Support Staff - Nupur and Shaivi

Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com)

Warm Welcome

The event was very much welcomed and I received a lot of good feedback. In this event, only few slides were presented – the rule of thumb I had was that I will show only one slide per hour and remaining time I will spend with attendees with real world scenarios and examples. During the two day sessions, we went through many examples, nearly 30 different performance tuning tricks, and tools and understood how performance is often misunderstood with scalability.

What really caught my attention is that many of the attendees thought creating Indexes is the way to improve performance. I had fun time to bust the myth of indexes, and later on, we learned the real trick of how we can improve the performance using indexes.

SQL Horoscope

As attendees were really interested in their current scenario, we did something very interesting during the training. I provided them a couple of queries on the very first day. On the second day, they brought the query results back to me. Based on these query results, we tried to play game where I told them what their server’s bottleneck is and what is it used as. The game went for nearly 10 minutes and we had fun time talking to attendees regarding their server.

 

Pinal presenting SQL Server Seminar

Real World Scenario

The real world is often quite different from the theoretical world. The issues which we learn in classroom are not the same when we deal with the live production server. I focused on real world scenario and asked attendees to bring their valuable queries and configurations. Together, we discussed about their server and tried to help them out with the next logical steps to improve their server. This was a learning experience for me as well. Every server is new and every server has its own tale to share.

Excellent Participants

No matter how good sessions are, without proper interactive conversations and questions, any session can become boring. As I said earlier, the attendees were very much interested in the subject itself and they really wanted to learn the tricks. Well, I wanted to share my tricks too. It was perfect match – which lead to overall great feedback of the event. I received many emails after the session, I would like to share one here.

Feedback

Here are some of the feedbacks received on my training in Sri Lanka.

“Many thanks for the email – your seminar was one of the best sessions I attended in my life. You made it so attractive and kept us at the edge of the seat every minute.”

“A BIG THANKS to your training, we all are at office and just experienced the first great benefit of your training right now. There was a major issue for almost a month which we discussed with you yesterday where the Java program and the SP tried to access the same table and Java program get stuck. Based on your training we have done some changes to Index & where clause and the problem is sorted out now. Juts now, we have completed. No more table lock and the Java program works fine. Once again thank you very much.”

Well, what else I can say, I am overwhelmed with this interest.

Next Seminar

My next seminar will be conducted in Hyderabad on Nov 27 to Nov 28 (Saturday, Sunday). The location of the seminar is at Best Western Amrutha Castle, 5-9-16, Opp. Secretriat, Saifabad, Khairatabad, Hyderabad. The fee for attending the seminar is Rs. 5,000. If you specify the code ‘SQLAuthority.com,‘ you will quality for 20% discount. Send email to indiainfo@solidq.com and pinal ‘at’ sqlauthority.com to register for the seminar.

You can click here to read more details about seminar.

Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com)

This whole exercise can be done remotely as well on site. The advantage of on site is that I am more involved with local DBAs and the training part is much more enjoyable. I have often got very good relations with the local DBA and we still talk when they have issues with server. There is no replacement of the human connections. The advantage of the remote is there is no travel involved and can be economic when the location is very remote or there is urgent need of performance.

Please read more about this service over here

SQL Server Health Check Service

SQL Server Health Check is a very challenging subject that requires expertise in Database Administration and Database Development. Solid Quality Mentors provides specialized health check service where we dive deep into your SQL Server configurations and potential issues and propose solutions to resolve your issues. We also provide maintenance scripts and train your team on few of the key areas in order to empower them to understand and tune the systems in the future. We also provide Hands-On sessions for tuning your queries and propose solutions for your deadlock situations.

Download the HealthCheck PDF details from here

If you need this service drop me an email at pinal “at” SQLAuthority.com and IndiaInfo “at” SolidQ.com. If you specify SQLAuthority.com in Title, you will avail special discount in overall rates.

Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com)

Filed under: About Me, Best Practices, Database, Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Index, SQL Optimization, SQL Performance, SQL Query, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL Training, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology ]]> http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/09/02/sqlauthority-news-sql-server-health-check-service-speed-up-sql-server/feed/ 5 pinaldave http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/08/30/sqlauthority-news-sql-server-performance-optimization-seminar-series/ http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/08/30/sqlauthority-news-sql-server-performance-optimization-seminar-series/#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:30:11 +0000 pinaldave http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=10000 ]]> I am very glad that I will be presenting my very first seminar training series worldwide. This event is called the Solid Quality DIRECTIONS Seminar Series. I am very fortunate that I am given this opportunity to work under prestigious organizations. I have been with Solid Quality Mentors for more than a year now. I have learned a lot and I have grown a lot through this group. While working for Solid Quality, I have conducted many training events and various consultations projects. I can say that I have collected and kept with me all the wisdom and knowledge related to my passion, SQL. In one of my recent conversations with Rushabh Mehta (Solid Quality India CEO), I realized that I have a chance to share with everybody this wisdom I have learned. For the very same reason, I will present all the things I learned throughout these many years and  compress them into this one major seminar.

The quick schedule for registering here is listed below:

• Chennai, India: Sep 24-25, 2010
• Colombo, Sri Lanka: Oct 4-5, 2010
• TBD, USA: Nov 15-16, 2010
• TBD, USA: Nov 17-18, 2010
• Hyderabad, India: Nov 27-28, 2010
• Pune, India: Dec 4-5, 2010

The very first seminar will occur in Chennai. The detailed agenda of this event you can find over here.

The venue for the first training is as follows:

SAVERA HOTEL
146, Dr. Radhakrishnan Road,
Chennai – 600004, India
Phone: +91-44-2811-4700

Agenda of the event

This 2-day seminar will cover the best of the best concepts and practices from popular courses offered by Solid Quality Mentors. Instead of learning theory only, the seminar focuses on providing real world experience by using demos and scenarios derived from customer engagements. The seminar is uniquely structured and well-thought-out. Sessions are discussion- based and are designed to be an interactive gateway between the instructor and the participants for an optimal learning experience. The seminar is intended to be immersion-based where participants will have plenty of opportunities to get deeply involved in the concepts presented by the instructor. The best participants will receive special educational materials from the instructor, as well as further follow ups.

3 Free Registrations

Solid Quality India has announced three free give-away registrations for the first event. To win the free registrations, you have to write a blog post or comment on social media (facebook, twitter etc) as to why you should win the free registrations. If your entry is chosen to be the best one, you will win the free registrations. Once you write your blog post or spread the word in social networking, please leave a comment with the name of the city where you want to win free registrations.

To join the seminars, please drop me an email. My email address is pinal “at” SQLAuthority.com and IndiaInfo “at” SolidQ.com. If you specify SQLAuthority.com in the Title of your email, you will avail a special discount in overall rates on specified price. Yes, a more than 20%, I promise.

Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.sqlauthority.com)

Those who know me and read my blog know that I make my living by doing the following:

• SQL Server Consultation (Primary Domain – Performance Tuning and Query Optimizations)
• SQL Server Training (Wide Ranges of classes – Primary Subject – Performance Tuning and Query Optimizations)

If I have empty weekend, I usually travel anywhere in Asia-Pacific to deliver an SQL Session and I absolutely make NO Money there. However, by God’s grace, my SQL Sessions and travels for sure have gave me a good name in local community, and it gives me great satisfaction that I am able to help people as many people have helped me.

Everybody always look for an experienced person as a trainer or consultant. As I have written on SQLAuthority.com for almost 4 years, many people also know me from this blog as well.

Before committing for any consultancy project or training, I usually talk to project leader or technical head. These conversations are very helpful and help me to understand the project requirements early on hand.

Recently, I came across a strange situation, which showed me that a good reputation doesn’t count every time. I had already talked to the project manager and project was all finalized. They wanted a custom training course for the first one week, followed by consultation in the second week and a live project with the client. The client had already delivered advance payment, and my travel agent had made the flight and hotel booking as well. Just an hour before my flight, I received a phone call from the HR person, who said that they have a strict requirement that every trainer who comes to their organization must be a Microsoft Certified Trainer. The HR person also told me that they overlooked this detail during their initial process, and because of this, they are willing to pay my cancellation charges if I am unable to produce my MCT certification.

In fact, I was a bit taken aback by this phone call as I have never had such an experience before. I have tremendous respect for Microsoft Certifications, and I do have many of them. However, I was never asked in my entire career – or at least after establishing myself in this career – to prove that I am a certified trainer. I politely told the HR person that I do have a MCT certification, but it will take a time for me to find it as I have kept it somewhere safe and I have only one hour to leave for the airport. The HR person again insisted that without the proof of my certification, they will not be allowing me to conduct training.

Thanks to my wife Nupur, I could find the certification in few minutes, and additionally, I had proof that I was teaching a 500 level course at the University of Southern California to PhD students. The HR person was glad after receiving the scanned copies of the same and finally gave me the green signal to fly to the client’s office.

This whole experience made me think how important these certifications are to a trainer and consultant. Maybe I should have made a loud announcement earlier, but I think it is still not late: I am MCT and really take pride in being one!

Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com)

There are two different courses are offered by Solid Quality Mentors

1) Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 Query Optimization & Performance Tuning – Pinal Dave
Date: May 12-14, 2010
Price: Rs. 14,000/person for 3 days
Discount Code: ‘SQLAuthority.com’
Effective Price: Rs. 11,000/person for 3 days

2) SharePoint 2010 – Joy Rathnayake
Date: May 10-11, 2010
Price: Rs. 11,000/person for 3 days
Discount Code: ‘SQLAuthority.com’
Effective Price: Rs. 8,000/person for 2 days

Download the complete PDF brochure.

To register, either send an email to IndiaInfo@SolidQ.com or call +91 95940 43399. Feel free to drop me an email at pinal “at” SQLAuthority.com for any additional information and clarification.

Training Venue:
Abridge Solutions, #90/B/C/3/1,
Ganesh GHR & MSY Plaza,
Vittalrao Nagar,
Near Image Hospital,
Madhapur, Hyderabad – 500 081.

Additionally there is special program of SolidQ India Insider. This is only available to first few registrants of the courses only.

Read more details about the course here.

Read my TechEd India 2010 experience here.

Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com)

There are two different courses are offered by Solid Quality Mentors

1) Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 Query Optimization & Performance Tuning – Pinal Dave
Date: May 12-14, 2010
Price: Rs. 14,000/person for 3 days
Discount Code: ‘SQLAuthority.com‘
Effective Price: Rs. 11,000/person for 3 days

2) SharePoint 2010 – Joy Rathnayake
Date: May 10-11, 2010
Price: Rs. 11,000/person for 3 days
Discount Code: ‘SQLAuthority.com’
Effective Price: Rs. 8,000/person for 2 days

Download the complete PDF brochure.

Additionally there is special program of SolidQ India Insider. I will provide the details for the same very soon.

Please do send me email if you need any additional details.

Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com)

Filed under: Pinal Dave, SQL, SQL Authority, SQL Optimization, SQL Performance, SQL Query, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQL Training, SQLAuthority News, T SQL, Technology ]]> http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/04/27/sqlauthority-news-public-training-classes-in-hyderabad-12-14-may-microsoft-sql-server-20052008-query-optimization-performance-tuning-2/feed/ 1 pinaldave http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/04/26/sqlauthority-news-public-training-classes-in-hyderabad-12-14-may-microsoft-sql-server-20052008-query-optimization-performance-tuning/ http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/04/26/sqlauthority-news-public-training-classes-in-hyderabad-12-14-may-microsoft-sql-server-20052008-query-optimization-performance-tuning/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:30:42 +0000 pinaldave http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=8750 ]]> After successfully delivering many corporate trainings as well as the private training Solid Quality Mentors, India is launching the Public Training in Hyderabad for SQL Server 2008 and SharePoint 2010. This is going to be one of the most unique and one-of-a-kind events in India where Solid Quality Mentors are offering public classes. I will be leading the training on Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 Query Optimization & Performance Tuning. This intensive, 3-day course intends to give attendees an in-depth look at Query Optimization and Performance Tuning in SQL Server 2005 and 2008. Designed to prepare SQL Server developers and administrators for a transition into SQL Server 2005 or 2008, the course covers the best practices for a variety of essential tasks in order to maximize the performance. At the end of the course, there would be daily discussions about your real-world problems and find appropriate solutions.

Note: Scroll down for course fees, discount, dates and location. Do not forget to take advantage of Discount code ‘SQLAuthority‘.

The training premises are very well-equipped as they will be having 1:1 computers. Every participant will be provided with printed course materials. I will pick up your entire lunch tab and we will have lots of SQL talk together. The best participant will receive a special gift at the end of the course.

Even though the quality of the material to be delivered together with the course will be of extremely high standard, the course fees are set at a very moderate rate.

The fee for the course is INR 14,000/person for the whole 3-day convention. At the rate of 1 USD = 44 INR, this fee converts to less than USD 300. At this rate, it is totally possible to fly from anywhere from the world to India and take the training and still save handsome pocket money. It would be even better if you register using the discount code “SQLAuthority“, for you will instantly get an INR 3000 discount, reducing the total cost of the training to INR 11,000/person for whole 3 days course. This is a onetime offer and will not be available in the future. Please note that there will be a 10.3% service tax on course fees.

To register, either send an email to IndiaInfo@SolidQ.com or call +91 95940 43399. Feel free to drop me an email at pinal “at” SQLAuthority.com for any additional information and clarification.

Training Date and Time: May 12-14, 2010 10 AM- 6 PM.
Training Venue:
Abridge Solutions, #90/B/C/3/1,
Ganesh GHR & MSY Plaza,
Vittalrao Nagar,
Near Image Hospital,
Madhapur, Hyderabad – 500 081.

The details of the course is as listed below.

Day 1 : Strengthen the basics along with SQL Server 2005/2008 New Features

Module 01: Subqueries, Ranking Functions, Joins and Set Operations
Module 02: Table Expressions
Module 03: TOP and APPLY
Module 04: SQL Server 2008 Enhancements

Day 2: Query Optimization & Performance Tuning 1

Module 05: Logical Query Processing
Module 06: Query Tuning
Module 07:  Introduction to the Query Processor
Module 08:  Review of common query coding which causes poor performance

Day 3: Query Optimization & Performance Tuning 2

Module 09:  SQL Server Indexing and index maintenance
Module 10:  Plan Guides, query hints, UDFs, and Computed Columns
Module 11:  Understanding SQL Server Execution Plans
Module 12: Real World Index and Optimization Tips

Download the complete PDF brochure.

We are also going to have SharePoint 2010 training by Joy Rathnayake on 10-11 May. All the details for discount applies to the same as well.

Reference : Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com)

This week, I have delivered Extended Events session two times and attendees really liked the said course. They really think Extended Events is one of the most powerful tools available. Extended Events can do many things. I suggest that you read the white paper I mentioned to learn more about this tool. Instead of writing a long theory, I am going to write a very quick script for Extended Events. This event session captures all the longest running queries ever since the event session was started. One of the many advantages of the Extended Events is that it can be configured very easily and it is a robust method to collect necessary information in terms of troubleshooting. There are many targets where you can store the information, which include XML file target, which I really like.

In the following Events, we are writing the details of the event at two locations: 1) Ringer Buffer; and 2) XML file. It is not necessary to write at both places, either of the two will do.

-- Extended Event for finding *long running query*
IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM sys.server_event_sessions WHERE name='LongRunningQuery')
DROP EVENT SESSION LongRunningQuery ON SERVER
GO
-- Create Event
CREATE EVENT SESSION LongRunningQuery
ON SERVER
-- Add event to capture event
ADD EVENT sqlserver.sql_statement_completed
(
-- Add action - event property
ACTION (sqlserver.sql_text, sqlserver.tsql_stack)
-- Predicate - time 1000 milisecond
WHERE sqlserver.sql_statement_completed.duration > 1000
)
-- Add target for capturing the data - XML File
ADD TARGET package0.asynchronous_file_target(
SET filename='c:\LongRunningQuery.xet', metadatafile='c:\LongRunningQuery.xem'),
-- Add target for capturing the data - Ring Bugger
ADD TARGET package0.ring_buffer
(SET max_memory = 4096)
WITH (max_dispatch_latency = 1 seconds)
GO
-- Enable Event
ALTER EVENT SESSION LongRunningQuery ON SERVER
STATE=START
GO
-- Run long query (longer than 1000 ms)
SELECT *
FROM AdventureWorks.Sales.SalesOrderDetail
ORDER BY UnitPriceDiscount DESC
GO
-- Stop the event
ALTER EVENT SESSION LongRunningQuery ON SERVER
STATE=STOP
GO
-- Read the data from Ring Buffer
SELECT CAST(dt.target_data AS XML) AS xmlLockData
FROM sys.dm_xe_session_targets dt
JOIN sys.dm_xe_sessions ds ON ds.Address = dt.event_session_address
JOIN sys.server_event_sessions ss ON ds.Name = ss.Name
WHERE dt.target_name = 'ring_buffer'
AND ds.Name = 'LongRunningQuery'
GO
-- Read the data from XML File
SELECT event_data_XML.value('(event/data[1])[1]','VARCHAR(100)') AS Database_ID,
event_data_XML.value('(event/data[2])[1]','INT') AS OBJECT_ID,
event_data_XML.value('(event/data[3])[1]','INT') AS object_type,
event_data_XML.value('(event/data[4])[1]','INT') AS cpu,
event_data_XML.value('(event/data[5])[1]','INT') AS duration,
event_data_XML.value('(event/data[6])[1]','INT') AS reads,
event_data_XML.value('(event/data[7])[1]','INT') AS writes,
event_data_XML.value('(event/action[1])[1]','VARCHAR(512)') AS sql_text,
event_data_XML.value('(event/action[2])[1]','VARCHAR(512)') AS tsql_stack,
CAST(event_data_XML.value('(event/action[2])[1]','VARCHAR(512)') AS XML).value('(frame/@handle)[1]','VARCHAR(50)') AS handle
FROM
(
SELECT CAST(event_data AS XML) event_data_XML, *
FROM sys.fn_xe_file_target_read_file
('c:\LongRunningQuery*.xet',
'c:\LongRunningQuery*.xem',
NULL, NULL)) T
GO
-- Clean up. Drop the event
DROP EVENT SESSION LongRunningQuery
ON SERVER
GO

Just run the above query, afterwards you will find following result set.

This result set contains the query that was running over 1000 ms. In our example, I used the XML file, and it does not reset when SQL services or computers restarts (if you are using DMV, it will reset when SQL services restarts).

This event session can be very helpful for troubleshooting. Let me know if you want me to write more about Extended Events. I am totally fascinated with this feature, so I’m planning to acquire more knowledge about it so I can determine its other usages.

Reference : Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com)

Brief information on this session is given below:

The Other Side of SQL Server Index: Advanced Solutions to Ancient Problem
SQL Server Index is very powerful tool and when in hand of the less skilled expert, the same tool can pose a danger to its performance and kill server. This session touches the root base of the how incorrect usage of Index can reduce performance and what is the correct way to implement the indexing solution. A problem addressed in the session may be age old, but the solutions are looked into with the focus on the latest versions of SQL Server.

I really enjoyed presenting this session to group of people. Special thanks to Harish Ranganthan for arranging the venue in a very short notice. You can read the details of this event on Hima’s blog here.

I really had a great time with UG members in Hyderabad ‑ indeed, a bunch of very enthusiastic attendees.

Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com)

The course is scheduled to be delivered from 4th Jan, 2010 and 6th Jan, 2010 in Pune, India.

This three day course is an intensive course designed to give attendees an in-depth look at the query optimization and performance tuning concepts and methods found in SQL Server 2005/2008. This course is designed to prepare the SQL Server developers and administrators for a transition to SQL Server 2005/2008 while discussing best practices for a variety of topics.

Day 1 : Strengthen the basics along with SQL Server 2005/2008 New Features

Module 01: Subqueries, Ranking Functions, Joins and Set Operations
Module 02: Table Expressions
Module 03: TOP and APPLY
Module 04: SQL Server 2008 Enhancements

Day 2: Query Optimization & Performance Tuning 1

Module 05: Logical Query Processing
Module 06: Query Tuning
Module 07:  Introduction to the Query Processor
Module 08:  Review of common query coding which causes poor performance

Day 3: Query Optimization & Performance Tuning 2

Module 09:  SQL Server Indexing and index maintenance
Module 10:  Plan Guides, query hints, UDFs, and Computed Columns
Module 11:  Understanding SQL Server Execution Plans
Module 12: Real World Index and Optimization Tips

The space are limited and I encourage you to register as soon as possible.

Call to register – +91 98817 95739, +91 98508 43664, +91 99229 33319

Email to register – workshop “at” seedinfotech.com

If due to any reason, you can not attend this course, please call or email on details above for future schedule for the course and location.

If you call and find whole course is sold out do contact me and I will try to get you space for sure.

We do plan to offer this course in other cities. Keep checking this blog.

Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com)

The course is scheduled to be delivered from 19th Nov, 2009 and 21st Nov, 2009 in Pune, India.

This three day course is an intensive course designed to give attendees an in-depth look at the query optimization and performance tuning concepts and methods found in SQL Server 2005/2008. This course is designed to prepare the SQL Server developers and administrators for a transition to SQL Server 2005/2008 while discussing best practices for a variety of topics.

Day 1 : Strengthen the basics along with SQL Server 2005/2008 New Features

Module 01: Subqueries, Ranking Functions, Joins and Set Operations
Module 02: Table Expressions
Module 03: TOP and APPLY
Module 04: SQL Server 2008 Enhancements

Day 2: Query Optimization & Performance Tuning 1

Module 05: Logical Query Processing
Module 06: Query Tuning
Module 07:  Introduction to the Query Processor
Module 08:  Review of common query coding which causes poor performance

Day 3: Query Optimization & Performance Tuning 2

Module 09:  SQL Server Indexing and index maintenance
Module 10:  Plan Guides, query hints, UDFs, and Computed Columns
Module 11:  Understanding SQL Server Execution Plans
Module 12: Real World Index and Optimization Tips

The space are limited and I encourage you to register as soon as possible.

Call to register – +91 98817 95739, +91 98508 43664, +91 99229 33319

Email to register – workshop “at” seedinfotech.com

If due to any reason, you can not attend this course, please call or email on details above for future schedule for the course and location.

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Reference: Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com)