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
- Understand the differences between
- 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.
