This month we have a Data Platform MVP double bill. The first session is a lightning talk by Mohammad Darab, followed by our feature presentation with Taiob Ali.

This user group session is ONLINE ONLY. To participate, you will need to connect using this link on Microsoft Teams.

Agenda:

• 5:00pm - 5:10pm - Welcome and messages
• 5:10pm - 5:25pm - Lightning talk (Mohammad Darab)
• 5:40pm - 5:45pm - Break
• 5:45pm - 6:45pm - Feature session (Taiob Ali)
• 6:45pm - 6:55pm - Q & A with Taiob

A lightning talk on Kubernetes (15 minutes)

Are you a data professional and curious about Kubernetes but not quite sure what type of opportunities are available? Maybe you’re hesitant because you think Kubernetes is a “fad”? Or perhaps you’re just starting out in IT and don’t know what path to take? Whether you are new to IT or a seasoned IT professional, in this session I will go over the benefits of learning Kubernetes and how it can massively level up your career!

Speaker:

Mohammad Darab is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, speaker and blogger with over 20 years of IT professional experience. He is extremely passionate about SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters and its underlying technology framework Kubernetes.

New features in Management Studio - Performance Troubleshooting made easier (60 minutes)

Do you know that now you can see how many pages are spilled to disk for a sort, as well as the memory statistics for sort operator? Are you aware that you can see the top 10 waits for a single execution and what trace flags were active during compilation, including the scope of the trace flags? Have you ever analyzed a big plan and wished you could search for the table name, index name, or column name without opening the XML plan? When you see an index used, do you know for sure which statistics were used by the Query Optimizer to estimate the number of rows? In this demo-intensive session, I will show you how to find and use new features introduced into SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and ShowPlan. You will walk out of this session equipped to make Query Performance Troubleshooting easier, and ready to tackle those nasty, hard to solve query plans.

Speaker:

Taiob Ali, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, is an accomplished technical leader with a proven record of success. During his last 15 years, he has worked with the Microsoft Data Platform and MongoDB, both on-premises and cloud. His experience includes all three major business sectors: finance, e-commerce, and healthcare. Taiob has hands-on experience in managing large database projects, including massive data migration, intricate process design, testing and deployment, performance tuning, long term capacity planning. He is a regular speaker at local and virtual user groups, and Azure conferences. Taiob is a board member of New England SQL Server User Group and Database Professionals Virtual Meetup Group, and organizer of Boston Data Saturday.