My SQL Saturday Chicago Precon: Leveling Up Your Azure Skills

I’m doing another precon at SQL Saturday Chicago on March 20th, 2020. The event is at Benedictine University in Lisle, IL. This time we’re going to dive a little bit deeper into Azure. While last years precon focused on basic infrastructure skills in Azure, this time we’re going to focus a little deeper into the specifics of the Data Platform in Azure. I did a variant of this topic in India last August, but I’ve made a few changes based on a number of conversations with customers I had at Microsoft Ignite last year.

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In this full day session, here’s what we’re going to cover:

  • VMs and Storage (like it or not this is still 80% of the cloud spend, and it’s how people migrate to the cloud)
  • Understanding the Azure services you need to manage your environment (this is going to focus heavily on Azure Automation, Azure Key Vaults, and Logic Apps)
  • Azure Data Platform–This is a Big Topic, but here’s how it breaks down
    • Understand the differences between
      • SQL Server in a VM
      • Azure SQL Database
      • Azure Managed Instance
      • Azure Synapse (nee Azure SQL Data Warehouse)
      • Cosmos DB
    • We’ll talk about the costs/benefits/performance of each of these options, and how they are incorporated into your broader architecture
    • Don’t worry, I’m a DBA, we’ll cover HA/DR here
  • We’ll also talk about a bit about cloud focused application architecture
    • Why Redis is front of your database is a good idea
    • Taking advantage of dynamically scaling resources

That’s a lot of topics–it’s a full day, and the deep dive part will be on the data platform, but any and all questions are welcome. There are still a few discount tickets left–you can sign up here.

 

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