Maria Zakourdaev

Maria Zakourdaev is a Data Platform Microsoft MVP and a technology expert with more than 20 years of experience, a community leader with a profound knowledge of Microsoft products and services, while also being able to bring together diverse platforms, products, and solutions to solve real-world problems. Maria has a hands-on experience managing various data management technologies in Azure, AWS and Google public cloud platforms, including SQL Server, Azure CosmosDB, AWS DynamoDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Postgresql, Snowflake, Redis, Amazon Redshift, Couchbase and Elasticsearch, Spark, Databricks, Big Query. Maria is an organiser of the annual conference "Data TLV" ( ex "SQL Saturday Israel"), a free training event for any data professionals: http://datatlv.com.
  • MSSQLTips Awards: Trendsetter (25+ tips) - 2022 | Author Contender - 2022 | Rookie Contender - 2018
Title Category Date
NoSQL Data Models – Embedded, Composite Key, Inverted Index, Table Big Data2026-05-20
Apache Iceberg vs Delta Lake – Similarities and Differences Cloud Strategy2025-04-18
5 Key Components for Efficient Cloud Management Cloud Strategy2022-12-05
Delta Live Tables Databricks Framework a Data Transformation Tool Azure Databricks2022-11-18
Azure Cloud Data Processing Strategy and Tools Selection Azure2022-09-15
Document Data Store Data Models and Proximity Queries Big Data2022-09-06
Pandas Dataframes Memory Error – MemoryError: unable to allocate Other Database Platforms2022-06-16
Setup and Configure Source Control with Azure Databricks Notebooks Azure Databricks2022-05-03
Document Database Modeling to Effectively Store and Access the Data Big Data2022-04-01
Web Scraping a Web Page using Azure Synapse Notebooks and Python Azure Synapse Analytics2022-03-17
Azure Cloud Cost Calculator General Purpose vs Business Critical Tier Azure2022-01-14
How to Send Emails from Azure SQL Database with Azure Logic Apps Azure SQL Database2021-11-22
Copy Data Between Cosmos DB Containers with PySpark Scripts Azure Cosmos DB2021-10-15
ADF Incremental Pipeline from Azure SQL Database to Databricks Azure Data Factory2021-08-04
Calculate Team Performance with LeadTime metric using JIRA and GitHub DevOps2021-04-16
AWS Cloud Costs and Usage Report Amazon AWS2020-01-09
Query AWS Athena Data from SQL Server Amazon AWS2019-11-06
SQL Server Insert Parent and Child Records with One Statement TSQL2019-08-15
Data Exploration with Python and SQL Server using Jupyter Notebooks Python2019-07-31
Read, Enrich and Transform Data with AWS Glue Service Amazon AWS2019-03-14
Import JSON files to AWS RDS SQL Server database using Glue service Amazon AWS RDS2019-02-28
Serverless ETL using AWS Glue for RDS databases Amazon AWS RDS2019-02-20
Compare SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL Features PostgreSQL2018-10-29
Discover how SQL Server can use Python to access any NoSQL engine Python2018-10-25
Deep dive into Python scripts execution in SQL Server Python2018-08-30
Importing JSON formatted data into SQL Server Import and Export2018-07-13
Receive SQL Server Alerts through Slack Monitoring2018-06-14