Tim Radney Tim@SQLskills.com SQLskills SQL Saturday Atlanta #392 16th May2015 Getting Involved and Getting Ahead Tim Radney Tim@SQLskills.com

Team of world-renowned SQL Server experts: Paul S. Randal (@PaulRandal) Glenn Berry (@GlennAlanBerry) Jonathan Kehayias (@SQLPoolBoy) Instructor-led training: Immersion Events (US, UK, and Australia) Online training: http://pluralsight.com/ Consulting: health checks, hardware, performance, upgrades Remote DBA: system monitoring and troubleshooting Conferences: PASS Summit, SQLintersection Become a SQLskills Insider https://www.sqlskills.com/Insider Kimberly L. Tripp (@KimberlyLTripp) Erin Stellato (@ErinStellato) Tim Radney (@TRadney)

2015 Immersion Events Classes in Chicago, Bellevue (WA), London, Dublin, Sydney (Australia) IE0: Immersion Event for Junior/Accidental DBA IEPTO1/2: Immersion Events on Performance Tuning – Parts 1 and 2 IEHADR: Immersion Event on High Availability and Disaster Recovery IEBI: Immersion Event on Business Intelligence In-depth, instructor-led, technical training for SQL Server Here’s our topic list for IEPTO2: Immersion Event on Performance Tuning, Part 2 For more information: https://www.sqlskills.com/training/ SQL Server I/O I/O Concepts for DBAs SANs for DBAs SQLOS Scheduling and CPU Performance Tuning SQLOS Memory Management and Memory Performance Tuning Data Collection and Baselining Wait and Latch Statistics Query Plan Analysis Extended Events Performance Issue Patterns Statement Execution, Stored Procedures, and the Plan Cache Deadlock Analysis Advanced Extended Events

Author/Instructor: Tim Radney Microsoft ASP.NET Connections Author/Instructor: Tim Radney Consultant/Trainer/Speaker/Author Principal Consultant, SQLskills.com Email: Tim@SQLskills.com Blog: https://www.SQLskills.com/blogs/Tim Blog: http://www.timradney.com Twitter: @TRadney SQL Server MVP Chapter Leader “Columbus GA SQL Users Group” PASS Regional Mentor “South East USA” Outstanding PASS Volunteer Regular presenter at worldwide conferences on administration, disaster recovery and performance tuning. Friend of Red Gate (I also like electronics, aquaponics, farming chickens and tilapia) Updates will be available at http://www.devconnections.com/updates/LasVegas _06/ASP_Connections

Email paul@SQLskills.com with the subject line: User Group Pluralsight code to get a FREE (no catches, no credit card) 30-day trial of our 120+ hours of SQLskills content on Pluralsight For example: http://www.pluralsight.com/training/Courses/TableOfContents/sqlserver-waits 4.5 hours on waits, latches, spinlocks http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/sqlserver-optimizing-stored-procedure-performance 7 hours on stored procedure performance tuning http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/sql-server-2014-dmv-diagnostic-queries-part1 Part one of a three part course on using DMVs for performance tuning

Overview What is PASS Paid events Online help/training Having a goal Getting involved Learn something new Have a plan Things to think about

What is PASS Professional Association for SQL Server Benefits of PASS SQL Saturday – www.sqlsaturday.com Local Chapters – www.sqlpass.org/passchapters Virtual Chapters – www.sqlpass.org/virtualchapters 24 Hours of PASS – www.sqlpass.org/24hours PASS Summit – www.sqlpass.org SQL Rally – www.sqlrally.com With the exception of PASS Summit and SQL Rally all are FREE Online training with 24 Hours of PASS and Virtual Chapters >>Congratulations, you are a member of PASSS<<

Paid Events Other paid training events SQL Intersection - www.sqlintersection.com SQL Bits – www.sqlbits.com SQL Cruise www.sqlcruise.com Dev Connections www.devconnections.com SQL Skills www.sqlskills.com/immersion Ignite www.ignite.microsoft.com

Online Help - Training Where do you turn to for online help? Twitter - #sqlhelp Forums SQL Server Central – www.sqlservercentral.com Stack Exchange – dba.stackexchange.com Stack Overflow – www.stackoverflow.com Websites MSSQL Tips www.mssqltips.com SQLskills www.sqlskills.com Pluralsight www.pluralsight.com BIDN www.bidn.com Free Books Simple Talk - www.simple-talk.com/books/

Having a Goal Are you living your dream? Get where you want to be in your career Do the kind of work you love doing Get an mentor Become a mentor to others Get the respect you deserve Do you need to correct any of the above?

Getting Involved Start getting involved Get on Twitter and participate #sqlhelp #sqlsat392 #sqlpass #sqlblog Participate online Q&A on SQL Server Central Q&A on Stack Overflow Q&A on Stack Exchange Blog Start your own blog and write about things that interest you Volunteer SQL Saturday Local Chapters

Learn Something New With all the free training, there is no excuse to not learn new skills Power Shell Reporting Services Policy Based Management Auditing SSIS SSAS Benchmarking Disaster Recovery High Availability Clustering database can lead to fragmentation. SAN/Storage Performance Tuning Development Public Speaking Best Practices Master Data Services Master Data Management Data Modeling Availability Groups Extended Events

Have a Plan What do you want to be doing in 1, 2, or 5 years? Plan the steps to get there Track your goals Set rewards for yourself Get a support system to help you #sqlfamily Promotion Advancement at work Projects Certifications Education Define your roadmap with your boss

Things to Think About Be forward thinking Manage your online brand Learn to interview well Go on interviews to practice Manage your online brand Manage your online brand, if I googled you what would I find Be mindful of how you are perceived using social media Twitter Facebook Resume Keep it up to date Have peers review it

Summary Getting involved can help move your career forward as well as help you learn more PASS Paid events to learn more Online help/training Having a goal Getting involved Learning something new Having a plan Things to think about

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