Maria Zakourdaev
Maria Zakourdaev is the Director of Enterprise Data Solutions at Perion. Maria has been working with SQL Server for more than 15 years. She is an Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE) Data Platform and has experience managing enterprise-wide environments, both OLTP and data warehouse platforms. Currently, she is working with many database technologies including: MySQL, Redis, RedShift, CouchBase and ElasticSearch. However, her preferred technology is still SQL Server. She is one of the SQL Saturday Israel organizers and speaks at SQL Server events.
2018 Awards
2018 Awards

Amazon AWS
- AWS Cloud Costs and Usage Report (last update: 1/9/2020)
- Import JSON files to AWS RDS SQL Server database using Glue service (last update: 2/28/2019)
- Query AWS Athena Data from SQL Server (last update: 11/6/2019)
- Read, Enrich and Transform Data with AWS Glue Service (last update: 3/14/2019)
- Serverless ETL using AWS Glue for RDS databases (last update: 2/20/2019)
Import and Export
- Importing JSON formatted data into SQL Server (last update: 7/13/2018)
Monitoring
- Receive SQL Server Alerts through Slack (last update: 6/14/2018)
Other Database Platforms
- Compare SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL Features (last update: 10/29/2018)
Python
- Data Exploration with Python and SQL Server using Jupyter Notebooks (last update: 7/31/2019)
- Deep dive into Python scripts execution in SQL Server (last update: 8/30/2018)
- Discover how SQL Server can use Python to access any NoSQL engine (last update: 10/25/2018)
T-SQL
- SQL Server Insert Parent and Child Records with One Statement (last update: 8/15/2019)