William Assaf
Senior Content Developer, Database Docs, Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
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William Assaf is a senior content developer on the Database Docs team at Microsoft and lead of Azure SQL docs. Formerly a Data Platform MVP and a consultant, and before that a .NET developer, William currently works with Microsoft product groups on content related to Microsoft SQL offerings, specifically over Azure SQL Database and Microsoft Fabric. As a consultant for 13 years he worked with clients on SQL Server and Azure SQL platform optimization, management, disaster recovery, and high availability, and led a multi-city team of senior consulting SQL DBA's. William has written for Microsoft SQL certification exams since 2011 and was the team lead author of the 2017, 2019, 2022 editions of "SQL Server Administration Inside Out" by Microsoft Press.
William is a past lead of the annual SQLSaturday Baton Rouge Planning Committee and is a big fan of data platform communities far and wide.
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SQL Saturday Jeopardy! A Quiz Show for Devs and Data Pros
Join your game show host William Assaf for a rousing hour of SQL and .NET trivia and high stakes where the audience is a 4th contestant!
Tabletop Role-playing Games at Work for Fun & Profit
Tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons are co-operative storytelling games. How can these games help us at work? What can we learn about writing, professional communication, teamwork, and diversity? How can we bravely practice design thinking and build on the success of others? What are the parallels between TTRPGs and professional interactions, and how can they help our career journey and personal growth? Join a panel of creative Microsoft employees and experienced DMs who do actually play TTRPGs at work. We are members of an officially recognized Microsoft employee organization called the Storytellers Guild that uses TTRPGs to improve our communication, improvisation, storytelling, and to practice empathy. All panelists are accomplished DMs.
How to Think Like a Certification Exam
Preparing for Microsoft certification? Do you want insight into how certification exams are written, how questions are designed, and how to follow a logical process of elimination? We'll go through the process of item creation from an item writer's viewpoint, what rules item writers must follow, and why questions sometimes have strange phrasing. For any technical skillset pursuing certification, we'll review non-technical sample questions and walk through the process of using information at your disposal. You'll better understand how to deconstruct the problem statement. We'll leave time for Q&A with a veteran of the Microsoft certification exam writing process.
Contributing to open source Microsoft Docs
How does Microsoft publish open source Docs on GitHub? Join content developers from the Database Docs content team for an informative call to action on modern Microsoft docs. Learn about the Docs publishing process in GitHub, and the best ways to add content and fixes to Docs that are read by the entire customer community. How can you be an effective part of that process and get contributor credit to a doc? What can contribution to Microsoft Learn mean for your Microsoft MVP status, your career, or your personal brand? Members of the Microsoft Database Docs team will answer these questions.
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