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Being the top SQL Shack author again required double the effort and the time than I spent last year (2016) to achieve it, competing more professional authors with creative writing styles. Fortunately, I achieved it this year again, two years in a row. Let me tell you how I succeeded and what kept me motivated!

与我去年（2016年）相比，再次成为SQL Shack的顶级作者需要付出更多的努力和时间，用创意的写作风格与更多的专业作者竞争。 幸运的是，我今年已经连续两年再次实现这一目标。 让我告诉你我是如何成功的，是什么使我充满动力！

Me

我

My name is Ahmad Yaseen. I am a Data and BI Leader – Database Administrator at Aramex International Company for more than seven years, where I started my SQL Server Database and BI administration experience. I live in a small country, where I was born in, belong to, studied and grew in; The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

我叫艾哈迈德·亚辛。 我是Aramex International Company的数据和BI主管–数据库管理员，已有七年以上的经验，在那里我开始了我SQL Server数据库和BI管理经验。 我生活在一个小国家，在那里我出生，属于，研究和成长。 约旦哈希姆王国 。

My role

我的角色

The Database Administrator role in such huge international company is not an easy mission or relaxing job, due to the busy environment, the heavily transactional systems with tiny downtime tolerance, and various strange problems that you will face every day and need to be resolved under pressure, due to the high cost of any downtime or data unavailability. However, I like this kind of job.

在如此庞大的国际公司中，数据库管理员的角色不是轻松的任务，也不是轻松的工作，因为繁忙的环境，繁琐的事务处理系统以及极小的停机时间承受能力，以及您每天将要面对并需要在压力下解决的各种奇怪问题，因为任何停机时间或数据不可用的代价都很高。 但是，我喜欢这种工作。

The international companies, such as the one I am working at, are the best environment for me to have a very fast learning curve and apply what I learn practically. As a SQL Server Database Administrator, my acquired skills include:

跨国公司，例如我正在工作的公司，是我快速学习并实际应用所学知识的最佳环境。 作为一名SQL Server数据库管理员，我获得的技能包括：

My goals

我的目标

To be a successful professional person, you should have goals in your life. When your goal is achieved successfully, you should not stop; it will open new prospects that redraw your plans again, to keep you in the road of success.

要成为一个成功的专业人士，您应该在生活中有目标。 成功实现目标后，您不应停止； 它将打开新的前景，重新制定您的计划，使您走上成功之路。

When I won the PASS Summit 2016 trip last year, I met a huge number of professionals and experts in the different data and BI aspects, chatted with them, learned from their experiences and exchanged my experience with them. From my last trip, I realized how wide the Data and BI field is. I got back to my country with new plans to keep pace with the rapid changes on that field. I started digging deep in the big data and Business Intelligent fields and achieved a new MCP certificate in Designing BI Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server. I also started reading about the different choices of storing the data in the Cloud that is the main concern of all DBAs now.

去年，当我赢得2016年PASS峰会之行时 ，我遇到了许多不同数据和BI方面的专业人员和专家，与他们聊天，从他们的经验中学到并与他们交流了我的经验。 从上一次旅行中，我意识到Data and BI领域的范围。 我带着新计划回到我国，以跟上该领域的Swift变化。 我开始深入研究大数据和商业智能领域，并在使用Microsoft SQL Server设计BI解决方案中获得了新的MCP证书。 我还开始阅读有关将数据存储在云中的不同选择的信息，这是现在所有DBA的主要关注点。

Attending the PASS Summit last year also showed me that it is not an easy mission to satisfy all type of readers and meet their needs, especially with this huge number of database experts that we are competing, working with and feeding with knowledge. So that, I had one of two roads to follow: continue working to help narrow part of the readers, or manage my time to work harder and harder with the suitable pace to meet the needs of wide range of the database experts. The second choice that I required a big effort, I had to choose carefully the topics that most of the readers are interested in, to be an added value for their experience.

去年参加PASS峰会也向我表明，要满足所有类型的读者并满足他们的需求并不是一件容易的事，尤其是与我们竞争，合作并提供知识的众多数据库专家一起。 因此，我有两条路可走：继续努力帮助一小部分读者，或者管理我的时间以适当的速度越来越努力地工作，以满足广泛的数据库专家的需求。 我需要付出很大努力的第二个选择是我必须仔细选择大多数读者感兴趣的主题，以增加他们的体验价值。

My process

我的过程

Choosing new article subjects requires research by following the top active social media SQL Server related groups, pages and hashtags, trying to find all new announcements, test these new features and enhancements and find the best way to present them. To encourage readers to go through my articles, I have to write in very professional, but simple way, so that anyone with simple English language and the minimum article subject knowledge can take benefits. At the same time, I must provide very accurate tested scenarios and information.

要选择新的文章主题，需要进行研究，方法是关注与SQL Server相关的活跃社交媒体，组和页面，然后查找所有新的公告，测试这些新功能和增强功能以​​及找到最佳的呈现方式。 为了鼓励读者阅读我的文章，我必须以非常专业但简单的方式撰写文章，以便任何具有简单英语和最低限度的文章主题知识的人都能受益。 同时，我必须提供经过测试的非常准确的方案和信息。

In order to improve my technical writing skills and find the best simple way to describe the difficult topics, I read a large number of articles on writing.

为了提高我的技术写作技能并找到描述困难主题的最佳简单方法，我阅读了大量有关写作的文章。

Once one of my articles is published at the SQL Shack site, I start promoting it via different social networks, such as the Facebook groups and pages, the LinkedIn groups, the most active SQL Server twitter hashtags. In this way, we can guarantee that it will reach a larger number of potential readers in the SQL Server community.

一旦我的一篇文章在SQL Shack网站上发布，我便开始通过不同的社交网络进行推广，例如Facebook组和页面，LinkedIn组，最活跃SQL Server twitter标签。 通过这种方式，我们可以保证它将吸引到SQL Server社区中的大量潜在读者。

Motivation

动机

What always keeps me motivated at a high level is the feedback I receive from the most cooperative and supportive people I have met and worked with, the SQL Shack community. They encourage me with their nice words and valuable feedback when the submitted article is reviewed then published. What also makes my day is the readers’ interaction in the shape of number of views and comments received from them on the article itself, the different social media networks and personally by emailing me.

始终使我充满动力的是，我从与我见过并与之合作过的最合作，最支持的人（SQL Shack社区）那里得到的反馈。 当审阅并发表所提交的文章时，他们用他们的好话和有价值的反馈鼓励我。 让我感到高兴的是，读者的互动以从文章本身，不同的社交媒体网络以及通过电子邮件给我发送的个人意见和评论的形式出现。

PASS Summit 2017 allowed me to connect with Data and BI platform experts from all over the world in a unique learning environment that empowers me with the practical knowledge. This year, I could choose between more than 222 sessions and 2 keynotes that mainly concentrate in SQL Server 2017 new features and different choices of storing the data in the cloud. The Exhibit hall has allowed me to meet the top companies that provide integrated solutions to make the DBA and developers life easier. During the conference, the Microsoft Clinic was a magnificent stop between the sessions, in which I could ask the SQL Server creators about my SQL Server issues.

PASS Summit 2017使我能够在独特的学习环境中与来自世界各地的数据和BI平台专家联系，从而赋予我实用的知识。 今年，我可以在222个以上的会话和2个主题演讲之间进行选择，这些主题主要集中于SQL Server 2017的新功能以及将数据存储在云中的不同选择。 展览厅让我遇到了提供集成解决方案的顶级公司，这些解决方案使DBA和开发人员的生活更加轻松。 在会议期间，Microsoft Clinic在会议之间停了下来，我可以向SQL Server创建者询问我SQL Server问题。

Visiting the PASS Summit for the second time allowed me to make more professional friends working in companies from all over the word, with various experiences and opinions.

第二次访问PASS峰会使我结识了来自世界各地的更多专业朋友，这些公司拥有各种经验和看法。

During the Experience SQL Server 2017: The Fast and the Furious and Building a Graph Database Application with SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database sessions, I got valuable knowledge about the new features and enhancements in SQL Server 2017 version. I concentrated also in the different SQL Server Azure versions and options by attending the Migrating to Azure: Moving from On-premises SQL Server and Oracle Databases to Azure SQL Database, Comprehensive Guide for Monitoring SQL Server and Azure SQL DB, Cloud & Hybrid Data Storage Roadmap for Business Intelligence and Azure Cosmos DB: The Globally Distributed, Multi-model Database useful sessions. I also gave myself an opportunity to dive away from the Windows platform by attending the Monitoring Linux Performance for the SQL Server Admin session. I saw that the Strategies to Speed Up Data Load into Clustered Columnstore Index session deserved my time to learn better ways to deal with the data warehouse.

在体验SQL Server 2017： 速度与激情以及使用SQL Server 2017和Azure SQL Database会话构建图形数据库应用程序期间，我获得了有关SQL Server 2017版本的新功能和增强功能的宝贵知识。 我还参加了迁移到Azure的工作，也集中于不同SQL Server Azure版本和选项：从本地SQL Server和Oracle数据库迁移到Azure SQL数据库 ， 监控SQL Server 和Azure SQL DB的 综合指南 ， 云和混合数据存储商业智能和Azure Cosmos DB的 路线图 ：全球分布的多模型数据库有用的会话。 通过参加SQL Server Admin的Monitoring Linux Performance，我也给了自己一个脱离Windows平台的机会。 会议。 我发现加快将数据加载到群集的列存储索引会话的策略值得我花时间学习更好的方法来处理数据仓库。

Finally, I will go back home motivated by attending the Take Each Day and Work on Making it Better session. All these sessions were presented by very qualified professionals.

最后，我将参加“ 每天参加” 活动，并努力使它变得更好 ，从而回到家。 所有这些会议均由非常有资质的专业人员进行。

The PASS Summit 2017 also redraws my plans this year, motivated me while being an interactive attendee in most of the sessions. What surprised me is that the snapshot in which my face appeared, that is taken from the last year conference, was chosen in the welcome page of all PASS Summit 2017 presentations!

2017年PASS峰会今年也重新制定了我的计划，激励了我成为大多数会议的互动参与者。 令我惊讶的是，我的脸出现的快照是去年会议的照片，是在所有PASS Summit 2017演示文稿的欢迎页面中选择的！

The main thing is that the PASS Summit 2017 provided me with new good material to write about, as I will also work hard to win this contest again next year. Take my words seriously, my SQL Shack friends! 🙂

最主要的是，2017年PASS峰会为我提供了新的好资料，因为我明年还将努力赢得这次比赛。 认真对待我的话，我SQL Shack朋友！ 🙂

翻译自: https://www.sqlshack.com/top-sql-shack-author-attend-pass-summit-twice-row/

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