Dinesh Asanka

Dinesh Asanka is a 10 time Data Platform MVP and frequent speaker at local and international conferences with more than 12 years of database experience.

Dinesh Asanka started his carrier in the software industry in 1993 as a trainee programmer. Then he has worked for many organizations as a Software Engineer, Data Warehouse Engineer, Database Designer, Data Architect, Senor Database Specialist and Senior Architect.

Dinesh has Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and an MBA in Information Technology, Masters of Science in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka. Currently, he is working towards a Masters on Fuzzy Data warehousing.

Dinesh is a visiting lecturer at Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa, University of Ruhuna, and the Institute of Information Technology for subjects such as Data Management, Data Science, Big Data Analytics and Database Administration.

Dinesh is also a presenter at Colombo Big Data Community, Sri Lanka Institute of Artificial Intelligence, sqlSaturday, DevDay, IEEE etc.

Dinesh Asanka is also a frequent columnist in many popular SQL Server web sites.

Dinesh is keen on research areas such as Databases, Data Mining, Data Science, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, etc.

2018 Awards MSSQLTips award

Category	Tip Title
Analysis Services Administration	SQL Server Analysis Services SSAS Hardware Configuration Recommendations
Analysis Services Development	Create Key Performance Indicators KPI in a SQL Server Analysis Service Cube
Azure	Migrating On-Premises Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence Solution to Azure
Database Administration	Infrastructure Planning for a SQL Server Data Warehouse
Database Administration	SQL Server Attach and Detach Database Examples
Database Design	Why Surrogate Keys are Needed for a SQL Server Data Warehouse
Dates	Create an Extended Date Dimension for a SQL Server Data Warehouse
Extended Events	Monitoring SQL Server Analysis Services with Extended Events
Import and Export	Loading Historical Data into a SQL Server Data Warehouse
Indexing	Script to Create and Update Missing SQL Server Columnstore Indexes
Indexing	SQL Server Clustered Index Behavior Explained via Execution Plans
Integration Services Control Flow Transformations	How to Retry SQL Server Integration Services Control Flow Tasks
Integration Services Development	SQL Server Integration Services CDC Tasks for Incremental Data Loading
Maintenance	SQL Server Maintenance Plan Index Rebuild and Reorganize Tasks
Recovery Models	Understanding SQL Server Recovery Models and Transaction Log Use
Resource Governor	SQL Server Resource Governor Configuration with T-SQL and SSMS
Temporal Tables	SQL Server Temporal Tables Overview
TSQL	Generic Approach to Identify Modified SQL Server Rows

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