MSDN Webcast Series Wrap-up Resources

Hey there everyone! I know I still owe you a few Q&A entries (for sessions 7, 8 and 9) but I wanted to get this blog entry out there so that you can play a bit with some of the resources. This series was targeted at developers but really helps to "bridge the gap" between development and administration by always remembering the impacts of what you implement (and techniques to help you to see if you do). More specifically, everything you do and/or design, has the potential for a negative impact to something else – there's no free lunch, eh?

So, this series focused more on Scalability but always remembered the impact to availability and/or reliability. This last session brought together the three primary areas to remember while developing a scalable and reliable architecture:

  1. Know your data
    • Design for Performance – Sessions 1, 2, 3, 6, and 8
  2. Know your users
    • Indexing for Performance – Sessions 4, 5 and 9
    • Optimizing Procedural Code – Session 7
    • Controlling Mixed Workloads and Concurrency – Session 6
  3. Users lie
    • Profile – to make sure that you're tuning what's really happening as opposed to what you think was going to happen! – Session 9

This last session had some great questions and as a result, a few new resources were used. Here are a few of the things we talked about:

Event Notifications and DDL Triggers

DMVs

Webcast links for the entire series!

Part 1: Creating a Recoverable Database
For the MSDN Download for Part 1, click here.
For the SQLskills Blog Entry for Part 1, click here.

Part 2: Creating a Reliable and Automated Backup Strategy
For the MSDN Download for Part 2, click here.
For the SQLskills Blog Entry for Part 2, click here.

Part 3: Designing Tables that Scale, Best Practices in Data Types and Initial Table Structures
For the MSDN Download for Part 3, click here.
For the SQLskills Blog Entry for Part 3, click here.

Part 4: SQL Server Indexing Best Practices
For the MSDN Download for Part 4, click here.
For the SQLskills Blog Entries for Part 4
Resource links blog entry, click here.
Q&A blog entry, click here.

Part 5: SQL Server Index Defrag Best Practices
For the MSDN Download for Part 5, click here.
For the SQLskills Blog entry, click here.

Part 6: Mixed Workloads, Secondary Databases, Locking and Isolation
For the MSDN Download for Part 6, click here.
For the SQLskills Blog Entry for Part 6, click here.

Part 7: Understanding Plan Caching and Optimizing Procedure Performance
For the MSDN Download for Part 7, click here.

Part 8: Data Loading and Aging Strategies – Table and Index Partitioning
For the MSDN Download for Part 8, click here.

Part 9: Profiling for Better Performance
For the MSDN Download for Part 9, click here.

Part 10: Session Summary – Common Roadblocks to Scalability
For the MSDN Download for Part 10, click here.
Transcript can be found here.

So, the series comes to an end (even though I still have more work to do). I have to say that it was a lot of fun and I enjoyed everyone's questions. And /start shameless plug here/ starting in March, SQLskills will begin a 10-12 part series on TechNet. The series will include sessions from my colleague Bob Beauchemin as well as me. This will definitely be more Operations and DBA focused but for all of you developers – it may help you better understand the system, High Availability and a myriad of New Features in SQL Server 2005.

I hope to see you there – or at least your DBA… ;-)

Thanks again everyone,

Kimberly

6 thoughts on “MSDN Webcast Series Wrap-up Resources

  1. Have been looking for MSDN Webcast Series Wrap-up Resources link!! it seems they are dead..Could u please share the updated one

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