As there are four Wednesdays left between now and SQLBits week, this seems like a great day to kick off my first blog series of 2024! I have the honor of presenting or co-presenting four sessions at this year’s SQLBits conference. Starting today, and continuing for the next three Wednesdays, I’ll publish a quick read previewing each of my sessions at this year’s event. If you want to see the full agenda and review both virtual and in-person attendance options, click here to have a look at the event website. Now that I’ve committed to the full series of blogs by publishing this first paragraph, let’s taxi to the runway and get ready for takeoff (you may have already guessed that the SQLBits theme this year is aviation)!
My first session (currently from 11:10-13:00 local time in Gate 11) is entitled “When to Wave Off Landing Data in PaaS Services” and I’ll be co-presenting it with Joey D’Antoni (b | t). Joey is a tremendous source of information on all things cloud and he and I both bring a wide variety of cloud migration project experience to the table. While this session will certainly have a structure, much of it will be spent talking about how our real-world experience in cloud migration projects can help inform your choices as you embark on your cloud data journey. We know a good bit of what you should do and a fair amount of what you shouldn’t do as well!
Particular to PaaS database services, on the surface they sell themselves in a lot of ways. They provision quickly (except when they don’t, but more on that during our session), the infrastructure is managed for you, and backups and high availability are largely baked in. What’s not to like? As it turns out, every service has its nuances and quirks and either Joey or I have encountered many of them. We gave this session an initial runthrough for that North Texas SQL Server User Group last week and it was well received, so we’re looking forward to sharing it with you at SQLBits 2024. Hope to see you there (and see you back here next week for the next blog in the series)!