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Gianluca Hotz

Gianluca Hotz

Mentor | Microsoft SQL Server MVP | President UGISS

๐Ÿ† Data Platform
Italy 28 years as MVP Alphasys Consulting Official Profile

๐Ÿ“‹ Biography

Gianluca Hotz is a consultant, trainer and speaker specialized in architecture, database design, high availability, capacity planning, performance tuning, system integration and migrations for Microsoft SQL Server. He has been working as a consultant in the IT field since 1993 and with SQL Server since 1996 and he is among the original founders of ugiss.org, where he served as vice-president from 2001 to 2016 and he is now serving as president, for his contribution to the community he has been a SQL Server MVP since 1998.

โœจ High-Impact Contributions 5

UGISS Website

Completely rebuilt UGISS website. The site source is now hosted on Github and directly published on Cloudflare when changes are committed. This will allow us to finally open collaboration to anyone that wants to publish.

User Group Owner
Feb 2026
UGISS Youtube Channel (yearly)

User Group Italiano SQL Server Youtube channel annual statistics

User Group Owner
Mar 2025
UGISS Vimeo Channel (yearly)

User Group Italiano SQL Server Vimeo channel annual statistics

User Group Owner
Mar 2025
Code Samples on Gist (Yearly)

Code samples for SQL Server, PowerShell, Python etc.

Open Source/Project/Sample code/Tools
Mar 2025
Presentations and demo code on Github (Yearly)

Demo code and PDFs of presented session on Github

Open Source/Project/Sample code/Tools
Mar 2025

Technology Focus

Azure SQL (Database, Pools, Serverless, Hyperscale, Managed Instance, Virtual Machines)

Functional Roles

Developer Consultant Trainer Content Creator

Languages

๐ŸŒ English ๐ŸŒ French ๐ŸŒ Italian

Stats

Contributions 5
Events 0
Social profiles 14
Years as MVP 28