After the MVP Summit in March, I’m headed to Chicago to speak at SQL Saturday Chicago, and on Friday March 22nd, I’ll be delivering an all-day training session on the Azure Data Platform. The term data platform is somewhat of a Microsoft marketing term, but we will talk about a wide variety of topics that will help you get up to speed on Azure.
All of the morning, and some of the afternoon will be spent talking about the core infrastructure of Azure. You’ll learn about topics like:
• Networking
• Storage
• Virtual Machines
While these are topics normally outside of the scope of the DBA, in the cloud you will have to at least understand them. Want to build an Availability Group in Azure? You’ll need to build an internal load balancer and map probe ports into your VM. Remember how you normally complain to the SAN team about your lack of IOPs? In the cloud, you can fix that yourself. You’ll also learn about what’s different about managing SQL Server in the Azure environment.
In the afternoon, we’ll spend our time talking about platform as a service (PAAS) offerings from Microsoft. While we will spend most of our time talking about Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Managed Instance, I’ll also spend some time talking about other offerings like CosmosDB, and when it is appropriate to use them.
It will be a packed day, so put your learning hat on. You can register at Eventbrite here—there are five discounted tickets remaining.