Second batch of SQL MCM Readiness Videos now Released
We just added another 23 videos on Technet – making it a total of 56 videos available as of today. The new videos cover storage core concepts & guidelines, DAS vs SAN architecture, storage testing and monitoring, index internals, the clustered index debate, statistics, locking, restore internals, Waits and Queues, a clustering introduction, SQLOS concepts, database mirroring, multi-server management, PBM and Resource Governor.
A few things to be aware of:
· The main landing page shows a rotating random video, followed by 10 of the most recently posted videos.
· The “more” link leads to the full list of available videos (56 videos as of today). By the way - this link is an XML page – which is by design for Technet.
· Each individual video page has the option of streaming the page in the browser or downloading video or audio files in varying formats (typically about 10+ download links per video). Right now this means there are 560+ individual links that get updated by the Technet team. Although I do random checks upon publication, I definitely don’t test every link. There have been instances of broken links or other bugs – so if you find them, please ping me directly and I’ll investigate and submit a fix request to the Technet team. Depending on when an issue is found it can take a couple of days to fix, but it will get fixed.
I hope you find these videos to be valuable (whether or not you use them for SQL MCM readiness).
Comments
Anonymous
December 15, 2010
Absolutely find these videos helpful! Making them available for free is such a HUGE value to the SQL Server community. Thank you to all involved.Anonymous
December 16, 2010
Glad to hear it Brian - thanks for the feedback!Anonymous
December 18, 2010
We had to pay thousands of dollars to get to a SqlServer 2008 course where these lectures are taught. This is great thing from Microsoft.Anonymous
December 19, 2010
Thanks Prasad - glad to hear that these have been of value.Anonymous
December 20, 2010
Great videos and the numbering helps a lot... But the video for "Database Snapshots" lecture point to the demo video. Also, videos 8, 11, 17, 18,... are not yet published. Do you know when it will be avalaible ?Anonymous
December 20, 2010
Thanks Didier. The Database Snapshots lecture video pointer was fixed a few days ago. Can you validate again, please? I just checked and it looks correct - but you may have a different source that I didn't check. As for the next batch, those are coming in a few weeks. I'll post to my blog once the final batch is published.Anonymous
December 20, 2010
I use this page : "technet.microsoft.com/.../gg429800.aspx" and the WMV video points to : "download.microsoft.com/.../HDI-ITPro-TechNet-winvideo-MCM_16_DatabaseSnapshotsDemo.wmv". The size and lenght of the video is the same as on the Demo page. I can't watch the video as my work PC is XP without the WVC1 codec. Can't wait for the next batch... :)Anonymous
December 20, 2010
Thanks for the notification on this Didier. I'll submit a bug fix to Technet and reply on this thread when they have fixed it. Best Regards, JoeAnonymous
December 27, 2010
Hi Didier, the links are now fixed for the Database Snapshots page. ThanksAnonymous
December 27, 2010
Thanks for the link. Downloading right now. I will spend the next couple of days watching the videos. Can't wait for the missing ones. ;)