Des FitzGerald works as a Principal Engineering Architect Manager in the Azure SQL Product Group at Microsoft. He has over 25 years of experience working within the SQL Server and RDBMS space and currently works as part of a team within the SQL Product Group that helps Microsoft customers & partners adopt Azure Data Services as well as SQL Server. One focus of this highly skilled team is to accelerate and unblock complex modernizations from Mainframe, Oracle, Teradata, Netezza, OSS and, naturally, SQL Server to Azure SQL as well as other Azure Data Services. Des has spoken previously at SQL PASS, SQL Bits as well as at various local user group meetings on all sorts of SQL topics down the years.