SQL SERVER – An Inspiring Personal Story – Movie from The Book – Video Course – SQL Server Questions and Answers – Pluralsight

Nov 3, 2011 – Visit to Grandma

SQL SERVER - An Inspiring Personal Story - Movie from The Book - Video Course - SQL Server Questions and Answers - Pluralsight grandma 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 herSQL SERVER - An Inspiring Personal Story - Movie from The Book - Video Course - SQL Server Questions and Answers - Pluralsight movie 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

SQL SERVER - An Inspiring Personal Story - Movie from The Book - Video Course - SQL Server Questions and Answers - Pluralsight ff 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

SQL SERVER - An Inspiring Personal Story - Movie from The Book - Video Course - SQL Server Questions and Answers - Pluralsight pinal-dave-v1 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.

SQL SERVER - An Inspiring Personal Story - Movie from The Book - Video Course - SQL Server Questions and Answers - Pluralsight vinod-kumar-v1

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 (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)

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  • What a lovely story behind your inspiration. Wish we all pay attention to what our elders say or expect out of us. Sometimes, it pushes us beyond our imagination. Congratulations!

    I have read your book and I am sure the course is as great as well. Keep up the writing. Your committment to writing everyday is inspirational.

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  • Hi pinal sir,
    Once again thank you for such a great commitment.
    Our best wishes are with you.

    Regard$
    Chirag Satasiya

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  • Gopalakrishnan Arthanarisamy
    February 3, 2012 6:57 am

    Hi Pinal,

    Such a good story and I loved it. Thank you once again for this wonderful Training Course.

    Gopalakrishnan Arthanarisamy
    Unisys, Bangalore.

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  • HI Sir,Thanks you so much and I will be thankful to you until my last breathe .

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  • What a great story! Congratulations on your accomplishment!

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  • How to get your Video Book

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  • Great story and narrative, sometimes i wish i had worked more on what my elders adviced, the question was spontaneous that did the trick.

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