Session Title: Azure Virtual Machines Reimagined: Overview Speaker: Pam Lahoud ,David Pless & Aditya Badramraju Abstract: Running SQL Server in an Azure virtual machine gives you the same capabilities and experience you are used to with on-premises SQL Server, plus the additional ease of use and management benefits available only on Azure. In this session, [...]
Session Title: Inside Azure SQL Managed Instance Speaker: Bob Ward & Niko Neugebauer Abstract: SQL Server professionals are looking to modernize all aspects of their data platform. Azure SQL Managed Instance is a fully managed database service for those looking to modernize SQL Server in the cloud. Azure SQL Managed Instance includes almost the complete [...]
Session Title: Latest Access Control enhancements in Azure SQL Speaker: Andreas Wolter Abstract: Learn about the latest enhancements in the authentication and authorization space for Azure SQL that help you adhere to the Principle of Least Privilege when granting access to Database resources, and how to do it in a scalable way. 300+ sessions are [...]
Session Title: Let's talk Monitoring ! Speaker: Alain Dormehl & Anna Hoffman Abstract: Come and learn from Anna and Alain, and maybe some special guests, about the latest Microsoft monitoring features for SQL. We will walk through the current product landscape, explain the current options, talk about the best options for customers, current industry trends [...]
Session Title: Enough of the Azure Pipeline GUI demos for Data Platform deployments Speaker: Kevin Chant & Sander Stad Abstract: I’m sure plenty of you have being there before. Hoping to see some YAML being used for real-life scenarios CI/CD deployments in Azure DevOps, only for the demos shown to be GUI based using the [...]
Session Title: SQL Assessment - Microsoft's Best Practices Checker Speaker: Taiob Ali Abstract: Do you want to get the current 204 suggested best practices from the SQL Server Team and evaluate your environments? These best practices are available for all instances, from your Data Center to the cloud. In this all demo session (Yes, no [...]
Session Title: Azure Arc enabled data services Speaker: Dinakar Nethi Abstract: This session will cover Microsoft’s latest offering in the Hybrid space – Azure Arc. Come find out what is Azure Arc enabled data services, what is the value proposition, what is the benefit for customers, what does the architecture look like, etc. There will [...]
Session Title: Simplify data management with partitioning Speaker: Uwe Ricken Abstract: The times of small database systems are now over. Even “small” systems already provide databases with several 100 GB data volume. It can be a real challenge for the DBA to complete the daily maintenance tasks, data backup, consistency checks, … in a reasonable [...]
Session Title: Parallelism in Microsoft SQL Server Speaker: Torsten Strauss Abstract: SQL Server can execute queries in parallel which can sometimes improve the performance of your queries. However, parallelism has its own challenges; therefore, we will look at the concept of parallel executions to understand when it makes sense to run a query on more [...]
Session Title: Docker Deep Dive Speaker: Andrew Pruski Abstract: Running SQL Server in a Docker container has many benefits (and drawbacks!) that we as SQL professionals should be aware of. In this demo heavy session we’ll dive deeper into running SQL Server in Docker containers. We’ll cover: – What exactly is container isolation? Container networking [...]
