My last post was my thoughts
around SQL Server over the past 12 months and looking forward to 2017. This
post, the last one of 2016, is about what I am planning to be doing next year
and what direction I hope to be moving DTA towards.
Firstly there’s SQL Clarity, the humble little blog that
hit well over 20k views this year. OK, that number might seem insignificant compared
to some but for me it was a huge milestone; especially considering the amount of
time I spent away from writing.
So what about 2017? Well the first thing to spring to mind is the monitoring script series to conclude. It’s at a nice halfway point at the moment with a couple of
parts on wait statistics to publish very soon. Next year will see more series
posts as I have a couple of topics that I really want to put out there as soon
as I can! I’ll also be linking more to articles that I’ve been reading and really
getting a wide range of content out there.
There will be the welcome return of the Q&A sessions.
I had always hoped these would be much more of a regular feature, the feedback
was always positive and there were certainly a lot of awesome people interested
in doing them and once more, huge thanks to Kevin and Sergey for contributing!!
If you are interested then keep a look out as I will be reaching out to the SQL
community for volunteers very soon!
There is also an announcement which I am really excited
about that I could be making as early as the beginning of January so keep your
eyes peeled for that.
Then there is DTA; not to be confused with the tuning advisor by the way!
For those that don’t know I entered the world of consulting this year
finally fulfilling a long term ambition of mine. I’m delighted to have got to this
point and if I had to thank everyone who has helped me on the way we would be
here for a long time. Anyway, I hope you know who you are and how grateful I
am.
DTA itself will start to build next year. There are a
couple of areas that we will be focusing on to begin with but before anything
else happens the online presence needs to be put into place so that will be
happening very early on next year. It will be a very separate entity to the SQL Clarity blog; the latter will be much more from a personal perspective. Needless to say, there will be lots happening over the next couple of months as far as DTA is concerned.
As for technology, there is so much to be looking into
its difficult to pin down a specific plan at the moment (I am after all reading three books in parallel!). Obviously SQL2016 comes with lots of
bells and whistles to look into and get accustomed to using. vNext as well is
something I will be spending lots of time with, the adaptive query processing features are a particular area I want to keep a keen eye on.
There's also R. I've spent a little bit of time using R this year and already I'm hooked. My personal opinion is that there will be another BI explosion next year so it makes sense to hone those skills in that area.
All in all it has been an amazing year and a big personal
wish of mine is to be much more involved in the SQL community over the next
year, whilst it might seem that I have enough on my plate I’m sure that isn’t
the case, so I am looking forward to seeing what is in store on that front!
So all that is left is for me to say a huge thank to
everyone. I really hope you all have happy and successful 2017’s!
All the very best,
David.
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