My Interview at Data Platform Geeks 2017

Dear All,

Earlier this year in August, I had the privilege of speaking at Data Platform Summit 2017 at Bangalore. As always a terrific experience to hangout, interact and learn from the best in the business. Here is my interview to DPS Team about my experience at the summit

R and SQL Server 2016

Yesterday, I delivered another session for Singapore SQL PASS Chapter. The session titled "R and SQL Server 2016" was giving an overview on "R" integration with SQL Server 2016 and also demonstrated how database administrators can apply "R" in their day to day operations. Video provided below. Thanks to Engineers.SG team for recording the same.

My Interview at SQL Server Geeks 2016

One of the biggest highlights of this year for me was speaking at SQL Server Geeks Annual Summit 2016. In the summit, I gave an interview to the SQL Server Geeks team on my summit experience. Video provided below

SQL Server 2016 SP1 – Rocking RELEASE!!!

Last week, I did a presentation titled "SQL Server 2016 SP1 – Rocking RELEASE!!!" to Singapore SQL User Group. The Presentation was about the things I covered over here and few more cool features released with SQL Server 2016 SP1. The best part of it was it was recorded :) This is my first presentation that has been recorded and uploaded in public platform. Obviously excited sharing it to all. Special thanks to Paul Lorret and engineers.sg team for recording it. 
On the presentation, it was certainly not my best as I had just 2 days to prepare. But still worth sharing and had fun doing it  :) Link provided below.



Slides and scripts can be downloaded from here

Technical Presentations - What happen's behind the scene

A while ago I wrote a piece on public speaking assignements over here and promised to write what it takes to do the same. While I started writing it, realized it can be made into a article for SQL Server Central. Link to the article provided below.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Public+Speaking/147748/

Do let me your thoughts over here or at SQL Server Central. Thanks!!!

 

Speaking at SQL Server Geeks Annual Summit 2016

I am very happy and proud to share the news that I will be speaking in SQL Server Geeks Annual Summit 2016 to be held in Bangalore from Aug 11 to 13th. SQL Server Geeks Annual Summit is the biggest Technical conference in Asia with 60+ speakers from across the globe speaking on SQL Server and Microsoft Data platform technologies.

Last year, I travelled more than 6000 KM with in a day, just to attend one day of the conference ( Read here for my last year's experience). And yes, it was worth the effort. From a attendee trying hard to attend the event last year to be a speaker, personally it is a big leap for me. It is indeed a great honor to be speaking at a event at which other speakers are the biggest stalwarts of SQL world like  Grant Fritchely, Sunil Agarwal, Bob Ward, Andreas Wolter and many more. I can't thank enough Amit Bansal ji, good friend Manohar Punna for the opportunity.

I will be giving 4 sessions in total - 1 Regular session ( 75 minutes ) and 3 open / chalk talk sessions ( 30 minutes each). 

• Regular Session on "The New Cardinality Estimator"
• Chalk talk and Open talks are on "CPU Performance troubleshooting", "In Memory OLTP Versioning", "Performance Monitoring n Troubleshooting"

Refer here for the session details.

As a attendee, I am super excited about the following sessions.

1) Bob ward's session on Query Store, R technologies

2) Ajay Jagannathan on Extended events, Tempdb

3) Joe Yong on Azure

4) Sunil Agarwal's sessions on In Memory and Column store indexes

5) Amit Bansal's session on Semaphore

6) Satya Jayanty's session on BI for DBAs

There are many more wonderful sessions ( in fact 127 in total !!! ) . So, I am pretty sure it is going to be 3 days deep dive technical content of top notch which you cant find anywhere else. So if you are anywhere in India and someway connected to SQL Server, August 10 - 13 is the place to be. I can assure you wont be disappointed for sure!! Don't miss it!!! 

SQL Community n Speaking Assignments

Dear All,

It has been a while since I became less active on this blog. Reason for the same being that, I have moved to other medium of SQL Server - Speaking / Organizing SQL Server Events.

It has been a year since I got associated with SQL Server User Group, Singapore. Since then, I have been managing the user group along with 3 others ( Dharmendra, Khilit n Sarbjit Singh ). In case you are wondering what SQL Server User Group is, it is a community for SQL Server enthusiasts, were we arrange knowledge sharing sessions on a monthly basis. Every month, usually on 3rd thursday we have atleast 2 excellent presentations done by MVP ( Microsoft
Valuable Professional ) or expert from Microsoft Singapore team or any other industrial expert. So, if you are someway related to Data Platform and keen on learning and networking, that is the place to be. Join our facebook page here for latest updates on the user group.

I have done close to 10 public speaking assignments in less than 1 year. Yes, I know for some of the SQL Community folks it is just a month's target :) But I didn't expect myself to be speaking at this rate. But no complaints as I enjoy it to the core. Looking back at the list of things I did

• July 2015 at SG SQL User Group on  "Hekaton - In memory tables - Overview"  - details provided here

•  Nov 2015 at SG SQL User Group on "Hekaton - In Memory tables - Transaction Logging and Checkpoint processes" - details provided here

•  Jan 2016 at SG SQL User Group on "SQL Server 2016 on Always Encrypted"  - details provided here

•  March 2016 at SQL Saturday Nepal 2016 on "Cardinality Estimator" -  details provided here

•  Apr 2016 at SG SQL User Group on "Optimizer's choice of Indexes"  - details provided here

•  May 2016 at SG SQL User Group on "SQL Server 2016 - Real Time Operational Analytics - "Real" Game changer" - details provided here

•  May 2016 at Data Immersion Event in Microsoft Singapore on Columnstore Indexes and In Memory OLTP.

 

•  May 2016 at SQL Saturday Brisbane on "SQL Server 2016 - Real Time Operational Analytics - "Real" Game changer" - details provided  here

•  May 2016 - "Moderated" Niko Neubauger's session in 24 Hours of PASS - details provided here

Besides these, couple of ones at work too. Speaking on Technology is fun. Picking a topic on which one has good knowledge, designing the scope, working on the subject for at least 2 months and then preparing the presentation n talk is a challenging but fun filled exercise. Grooms one's technical , presentation and communication skills for sure. What goes behind the scene in a technical presentation is a interesting post all together. Will do one on that soon.
I also have a few huge upcoming presentations as well. Will be blogging about it as well.  Hope to balance blogging n speaking in the rest of the year :)

Cheers,
Nagaraj