Sql Server Data

SQL SERVER DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR

Narsimha.konatham

*********.***@*****.*** Conatct: 408-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Over 8 years of Database Administration and Development experience on MS SQL Server 2014/2012/2008 R2/2008/2005/2000.

Expertise include Administration, Database Design, Performance Analysis of highly transactional servers and production support for Large (VLDB) Complex and Critical databases.

Good knowledge of MS SQL Server 2008 implementing new features like Row and Page compression mechanism, CDC,Data Compression, Backup compression, Resource Governor,Performance Data Collector and Transparent Data Encryption.

Extensive experitise with configuring High Availability and Disaster recovery scenarios like Always On, Clustering, Mirroring, Log shipping and Replication.

Documented Disaster Recovery plans and participated in disaster recovery drills.

Worked extensively on Multi-Subnet Clustering and Server consolidation. Troubleshooting Production issues, HA issues and AG alerts

Experience in implementing advanced features like Policy Based Management, Resource Governor, Data Collector sets, and Backup Compression Techniques.

Implemented the methodologies like Data partitioning,Snap shot isolation, database mirroring, database snapshot, DDL triggers, try-cache blocks, Online Indexing,

Experience in creating cubes using MS SQL Analysis Services. Developed star and snowflake schemas.Working in both MOLAP and HOLAP environments.

Worked extensively on DMV’s, DMF’s, Mail Setup, Jobs and Alerts, DTA, SQLCMD.

Experience in data migrating (using tools like DTS, BULK_INSERT, BCP) between different homogeneous/heterogeneous systems and SQL Server as a part of Data Migration and Data Maintenance.

Experience in working with Agile/SCRUM based product development teams, collect database requirements and provide solutions and recommendations for new schema, infrastructure or architecture.

Expertise in setting up High Availability and Disaster Recovery(HADR) solutions such as Active/Passive and Active/Active Clusters.

Performed Sharding and Vertical Partitioning in order to suffice the Application through put and good experience in resolving SQL Server blocking and Dead Lock Issues.

Expert in Performance Tuning by Index Defragmentation, Optimizing execution plans, Proper usage of indexes, Index Rebuild, Reorg.

Experience working with Profiler and Server side trace.

Expertise in reading and understanding Execution plan and fixing query to execute with low cost.

Expert in handling parameterized Reports, Drilldown Reports using SQL SERVER REPORTING SERVICES 2005

Designed effective Maintenance Plans for Backups (Full, Differential and Transactional Log) and RPO, RTO to recover point in time data in in case of disaster of server/center

Expert in AZURE Blob Storage Management and migrating blobs.

Thorough Understanding of different RAID levels implementation and Performed methologies such as Disk Striping with/without Parity.

Experience in configuring and managing Linked Servers. Data transfer between SQL Server and other heterogeneous relational databases such as Oracle and DB2.

Upgraded databases from MS SQL Server 2000 to 2005,2012 and MS SQL Server 2008 to 2012, 2014.

Expert in extracting from different sources, transforming and loading data using transformation services like data transformation services like Batch processes, Import/Export, SSIS, DTS, BCP and Bulk Insert.

Hands on Experience with using Data Modeling Tools such as Erwin and MS Visio.

Extensive experience in Capacity Planning, Performance Tuning, Disaster Recovery, Troubleshooting, Backup and Restore Procedures.

Experience in SQL Server Reporting Services(SSRS) and Crystal Reports.

Overall database design that involves creating normalized databases, user authentication, query tuning, assigning proper indexes, creating stored procedures, functions, triggers and data types.

Explicit expertise in installation and configuration of SCO(System Center Orchestrator 2012) and SCOM(System Center Operations Manager 2012).

Performed both single server and multiple server deployment of SCOM and its components.

Extensively worked on Data tier applications, deploying and managing dacpacs.

Hands on expertise on both Upgrading and Downgrading SQL Server to new versions and applying Service packs and Hot Fixes.

Expertise in implementing advanced methologies like Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), Page Level Compression, Column Stored Indexes.

Experience in creating Packages, Jobs, sending alerts using SQL Mail and custom extended procedures.

Experience in using DMV and dynamic management functions (DMF) Of Tables, Triggers, Store Procedure etc for finding out long running queries.

Explicitly used third party backup tools like Lite Speed, Fog light and Red gate.

Creation and maintenance of Databases, creating Roles and managing user permissions and Data Warehousing.

Experience in Troubleshooting and documenting root cause analysis.

Hands on experience in writing and debugging Stored Procedures, Triggers, Cursors, Complex queries using T-SQL Scripts and Batch files.

Conversant with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) involving Systems Analysis, Design, Development and Implementation.

Experience working with Window 2003 Enterprise Server and Windows 2000 Advanced Server Administration and Installation.

Monitoring Event Viewer, SQL Error logs and Log File Viewer for Software and hardware related errors.

Develop and manage reports on SharePoint Server.

Monitoring Dashboard Reports for Performance Tuning and finding bottleneck in database.

Monitoring and troubleshooting by checking Performance Monitor and Activity monitor.

24 x 7 Production Database on Call Support. Excellent Analytical, problem solving and communication skills.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner and determination to learn new technologies, strong troubleshooting skill and good Team player with excellentinterpersonal and team work skills.

TECHNICALSKILLS

Databases:

MS SQL Server 2016/2014/2012/2008 R2/2008/2005, SQL Azure and Oracle 11gr1,11gr2 and 12c

ETL & REPORTING Tools:

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), Data Integrator, Data transformation services (DTS)

Database Tools:

Server Management Studio,SQL profiler, SQL Query Analyzer, Index Analyzer, DTA, SQL, Enterprise Manager,Perfmon,Index Tuning Wizard, Database Tuning Wizard, Export & Import,Precise i3 for SQL Server.

Third Part Tools

SCOM, Idera SQL Check, Companion,lite speed, Red gate, Veritas net backup, Erwin r7, TDE, Azure Storage Explorer, Cloudberry Storage Explorer.

Languages:

T-SQL, C/C++, Java, PERL, java script, Visual Studio2010/2012, XML, HTML, ASP.NET, VB.Net.

Ticketing Tolls

Service Now,Jira and BMC Remedy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Hachette Book Group, Inc. Boston, MA Jan 2017- Till date

Role: Sr Database Administaor

Responsibilities:

Installation and upgrades of SQL server SQL 2008 r2 and 2012,2014 and 2016

Migrated databases from 2005 and 2008 to 2012,2014 and 2016

Installation, Setup and Management of Always On Availability on Multi subnet Cluster

Setup the Always On Availabilty for DR Node on a Traditional Cluster with Shared Volumes

Maintaining ASM in RAC environment and Monitoring Health checks OCR, voting files and Interconnect for better performance and troubleshooting and issues in RAC environment (11GR2 and 12c)

Migrated SharePoint Database servers from 2012 to 2014.

Installed and configured 2 Node RAC on 10gR2 and performing Monitoring Health checks in RAC environment.

Setup the Transact Replication from Multiple Publishers to One Subscriber

Apply patch and security updates on regular basis

SQL Server Logins and Windows Access Administration.

Repaired, Recovered, Database Synchronization for Disaster Recovery.

Database Performance Tuning using Data Tuning Advisor, Profiler and Extended events, DMV’s.

Managed Databases using Maintenance Plan, DBCC, Backup (Full, Differential, Log), Automated Backup to Blob Storage.

Performance troubleshooting for Production systems

Implemented partitioning and Page Compression for Very Large Tables.

Encrypted data and log files using transparent data encryption (TDE) solution.

Implementation of TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) and maintenance of Encryption Keys, Certificates and migration of Encrypted Databases across different environments.

Downgrading SQL Enterprise Edition to DE (Developer Edition 2012/2014) in Development Environments.

Installed, authored, and managed reports using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).

Involved in capacity planning, sizing and database growth projections.

Monitoring and maintenance of Azure Bolb Storage and Virtual Hard drives

Configuring and setting up RAID levels for the Virtual Hard Drives.

Involved in writing T-SQL Programming to implement Stored Procedures and Functions for different tasks.

Performance Tuning, Analysis and optimizing for SQL Server Application by using Performance monitor.

Conducted various meetings and conferences with application teams to meet corporate milestones for database consolidation and data migration

24*7 Production oncall support

Environment :MS SQL Server 2005/2008/R2/2012/2014/2016,Windows 2003/2008, SSRS, SSIS, SSAS, PL/SQL, MS Access, TDE,perl script, Erwin, companion, Idera, TSM/TDP.

Paylocity IL April 2015 – Dec 2016

Sr. SQL Server Production DBA

Description: Paylocity (NASDAQ: PCTY) develops industry-leading, cloud-based payroll and human capital management software solutions for medium-sized organizations. Paylocity provides comprehensive and easy-to-use solutions enable to the clients to manage their workforces more effectively. In this project my role was assigned as a Database Administrator for support and maintenance of the application databases

Responsibilities:

• Managed Production, Development, QA and UAT environments.

• Experienced in troubleshooting long running queries and resolving locking and blocking issues.

• Involved in migration from SQL Server 2008 R2/2008 to 2014/2016.

• Implemented SQL logins, Roles and Authentication Modes as part of Organization's security policies.

• Worked on Setting up and managing Snapshot and Transaction replication.

• Implemented Always On Availability Groups for High Availability and Disaster Recovery.

• Resolved issues related to creating & maintaining of databases, monitoring Disk Space, Database Security, Database integrity, Indexes management, blocking and daily checks.

• Setup & Automated Key Alerts on daily/weekly maintenance Jobs, Data Loads Jobs, Disk Space and CPU Monitoring, monitored server performance, trouble shooting and fixing performance issues.

• Developed complex business stored procedures, function and triggers.

• Extensively used SQL Server DMV's for Performance Tuning.

• Worked extensively with SQL server Profiler, Execution plan and Index Tuning Wizard for performance bottlenecks.

• Created Backup, Restore and Verify strategy for production and development environment.

• Created Database Maintenance Planner for the Performance of SQL Server which covers Database Integrity Checks.

• Using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) tool of SQL Server to populate data from various data sources, creating packages for different data loading operations for ETL application.

• Working with development teams in designing, finalizing and developing database schemas and objects.

• Monitoring and fixing of daily jobs and data loads.

• Backup, Restore and verify the critical databases on regular intervals.

• Validate and executing the scripts in test, UAT and Production environment.

• Installation, configuration and upgrade of MS SQL Server 2014/2012/2008 R2/2008.

• Updating Service packs and Security patches for the Servers.

• Analyzing data, Defining KPIs and publishing dash boards.

Environment: SQL Server 2014/2012/2008 R2/2008, MSSQL, MS Access, Windows Server 2012 R2/2012/2008 R2

Ageon USA Sep 2014 – March 2015

Sr. SQL Server DBA

Description: Ageon is one of the world's leading providers of life insurance, pensions and asset management. Ageon have operations in over 20 countries, including the USA where known as Transamerica. In this project my role was assigned as a Senior Database Administrator for support and maintenance of the application databases. Has been part of upgrade and migration project team

Responsibilities:

• Installed SQL Server 2014/2012/2008R2/2008/05 on Windows Clustered and standalone environments with latest service packs.

• Upgraded SQL server Databases from 2000/2005 to 2008R2/2012

• Experience in working and troubleshooting2TB Very Large databases (VLDB) in OLTP Environment.

• Configured Always ON availability groups in SQL server 2012

• Configured log shipping for multiple databases as a part of DR.

• Configured Replication and database mirroring.

• Application support for front end feeds and Resolved Application connectivity issues like connection timeouts, connection pooling issues and memory leaks.

• Extensively worked with SQL Profiler, Activity monitor, Perfmon, DMVs, DMFs and DTA to tune the databases, queries, performance related issues like memory CPU and I/O issues.

• Analyze long running slow queries and tune the same to optimize application and system performance.

• Reorg/Rebuilding the indexes at regular intervals for better performance

• Implementation of SQL Logins, Roles and Authentication Modes as a part of Security Policies for various categories of users.

• To set up SQL Server configuration settings to resolve various resource allocation & memory issues for SQL Server databases and to setup ideal memory, min/max server options.

• Involved in trouble shooting and fine-tuning of databases for its performance.

• Improve the performance of SQL Queries and stored procedures using SQL Profiler.

• Configuring TEMP DB on files and file groups and capacity planning of databases.

• Configuring and deploying SSIS packages and SSRS reports.

• Documenting procedures in run books.

Environment: SQL Server 2014, 2012, 2008R2, 2005, Windows 2012, 2003 Server, Symantec netbackup, Visio. Enterprise Manager, SQL Query Analyzer, SQL Profiler.

State of Michigan, Lansing, MI Jan 2013 – Aug 2014

Sr.SQL Server DBA

Clarity Public Retirement Administration Package is a framework that contains reusable software components that can be utilized to automate common functions within public retirement systems, including enrollment, benefit payments, benefit estimates, customer services and service credit purchases. In this project my role was assigned as a Sr.SQL DBA involved in production support, migrating the databases.

Responsibilities:

Working as a Production DBA with 50+ Production MS SQL Servers and 100+ Dev-Test SQL Servers and 1000 + Databases.

Managed security on Production and Development environments.

Monitored the complete environment for resource utilizations and to avoid any bottlenecks.

Creating and maintaining various databases on Production and development environments using SQL Server 2005/2000.

Created jobs to import/ export data obtained from various States to update the GIS servers.

Installed and configured SQL Server Reporting Services.

Installed necessary Service Packs for SQL server 2005.

Installed SQL server 2005, 2008 and 2012 on a test environment to be the future production environment.

Upgraded legacy 2000 databases to SQL server 2005/2008.

Involved in Database Backup and recovery.

Implemented high availability on the various servers using replication/mirroring.

Tuned databases for better performance.

Created and maintained various logins and managed security based on the required access.

Implemented and tested the point in time recovery of the production databases.

Involved in migrating share point from one server to the other.

Created various jobs to monitor resources on various servers and to mail the necessary information when threshold was reached.

Design/ developing SSIS (ETL) MDX developing components.

Optimized the performance of queries with modifications in T-SQL queries, removed unnecessary columns, eliminated redundant and inconsistent data,normalized tables, established joins and created indexes whenever necessary.

Loaded the data into another data sources (Oracle, SQL Server) using SSIS.

Created various SSIS packages based upon the requirement.

Created various reports using SSRS.

Created the logical and physical data modeling using Erwin tool.

Expanded Physical Data Model (PDM) for the OLTP application using ERwin.

Analyzing the Performance of a Cube by partitioning it and creating Perspective Cubes.

Scripting the Database Consistency Checks (DBCC), scheduling the scripts to run daily and weekly basis.

Responsible for fine tuning of the database, troubleshooting, user administration, memory management, and running DBCC (Rebuilding Indexes and fine tuning Stored Procedures).

Data migration using DTS services across different databases like Oracle, MS access & flat files.

Responsible for production backup and recovery strategy using RMAN.

Contacted various users in gathering the requirements and documented the necessary changes.

Analyzed various backup compression tools available and made the recommendations.

Created necessary templates for various requirements gathering and documentation.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008/2012,Oracle10g/11g,SSRS, DTS, SSIS,BCP SQL Server Profiler, QNXT, Care Advance, Biz Talk, VB.NET,T-SQL,Erwin4.0,Erwin3.5.2,DBMoto, Database engine tuning Advisor, IIS.

TCF BANK, Minneapolis, MN Sep 2011 – Dec 2012

Sr SQL SERVER DBA

Description: TCF Banks are affiliated with TCF Financial Corporation, a financial holding corporation based in Minnesota. TCF has 444 banking offices in Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, Colorado, Wisconsin, Indiana, Arizona and South Dakota. TCF is now the 10th largest U.S. Visa® Classic debit card issuer ranked by sales volume.

Responsibilities:

Interacted with various customers on day to day basis and analyzed their SQL server environments.

Analyzed various SQL server environments and suggested best practices for better performance.

Administered the space usage of the various databases for various applications.

Automated consistency check of the database (DBCC) for SQL Server.

Analyzed the complete environment for resource utilizations and suggested upgrades to increase I/O and avoid bottlenecks.

Installed and configured SQL Server Reporting Services.

Suggested various architectures that can be implemented after upgrading from older versions of SQL server to SQL server 2005.

Proposed various high availability options to maintain the high availability of SQL server on various environments.

Used DBCC commands to check physical and logical consistency of the databases and rebuild indexes.

Created various automated processes to update the Reporting services databases on a regular basis.

Suggested and implemented various SQL Server Reporting services environments.

Upgraded SQL server 2000 boxes to SQL server 2005 and acted as the point of contact for all developers.

Upgraded SQL server 2005 to SQL server 2008 on a Clustered environment.

Designed and developed data warehouse data stores, and analyzed business requirements, developed target-source data mappings and delivering ETL processes for end-user OLAP and reporting initiatives (Used report services as and OLAP client schedule reporting tool ).

Primarily responsible for developing database solutions that provide the business with the information needed to make daily operating and strategic decisions. Perform data modeling activities, application performance tuning and code reviews.

Implemented various high availability options for SQL server 2005/2008 including replication.

Tested point in time recovery of the production 2008 databases using the traditional backup/restore technique.

Setup replication for high availability.

Make modifications/and add new MDX queries to cubes.

Installed SQL server and implemented resource utilization on the server.

Converted many DTS packages to SSIS packages during the up gradation of the servers.

Involved in performance tuning and query optimization.

Fixed and rebuilt many SSIS packages during the migration.

Analyzed many databases in various environments for performance issues.

Monitored network for bottlenecks.

Involved in tuning various reports generated using SSRS.

Documented the various observations made and suggestions on various environments.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, SSRS, DTS, SSIS, SSAS, VB 6,Erwin, SQL Server Profiler, T-SQL, SQL Loader, Database engine tuning Advisor, BPA, Upgrade Advisor.

Sunera Tech July 2009– Aug 2011

SQL server Developer

Description: Sunera Techn Inc. provides enterprise software solutions. It offers eSeal, an integrated brand tracking, protection, and promotion platform. Sunera Mobile Publishing Platform, an enterprise-class mobile Web platform for various companies; and Customer Advisory Council, which provides an online-offline technology forum for customers.

Responsibilities:

Installation and configuration of SQL Server 2000/7.0 on Window 2000/NT OS.

Managing of database objects like Tables, views, stored procedures, indexes etc.

Written complex stored procedures and functions according to business requirements.

Implementing Backups and restoring when necessary.

Used BCP utility to publish table output to text files.

Developed DTS Packages to transfer the data between SQL Server database and files.

Creation and management of Database maintenance plan for various database consistency checks.

Developed original system for tracking database objects (tables, views, procedures, etc.) over multiple Sybase servers using Unix Shell Scripting.

Creating monthly transaction report for all sections. Developing of Multi-Lingual Reports using Crystal Reports

Designed and Implemented Reports using Business Objects Full Client.

Reports were developed using Crystal Reports utility.

Used SQL Profiler to monitor the server performance, debug T-SQL and slow running queries.

Worked on monitoring and tuning of SQL scripts. Created upgrade scripts for production database and supported it.

Managing of users including creation/alteration, grant of system/db roles and permission on various database objects.

Extensively used Joins and sub-Queries to simplify complex queries involving multiple tables.

Extensively Developed SQL scripts for maintaining administration tasks.

Develop documentation that sufficiently describes technical deliverable as required for internal controls so that the maintenance responsibility can be passed on to production support team.

Environment: SQL Server7.0/ 2000, Enterprise Manager, Windows 2000, SQL Profiler, DTS, Crystal Reports, Business Objects, T -SQL, BCP.

EDUCATION: Bachelor of Technology.

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