Drew Skwiers-Koballa
Program Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Drew Skwiers-Koballa is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, focusing on building tools that make databases more accessible and powerful for developers. Before joining Microsoft in 2020, he spent nearly a decade as a developer, database administrator, and team lead. Drew immensely enjoyed being a technical reviewer for the book "Practical Azure SQL Database for Modern Developers." As a relentless learner and occasional developer, his work spreads across several blogs, videos, and samples linked from https://github.com/dzsquared. He has an MS in computer science from Georgia Tech and an MS in chemistry from the University of Minnesota.
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Next-gen SQL projects with Microsoft.Build.Sql
Your database objects are stored as code for development in Visual Studio or VS Code with Microsoft.Build.Sql SDK-style SQL projects, but the advantages don’t stop there. SQL code analysis and other build-time tests can validate database code quality and correctness during continuous integration of code changes. With SQL projects delivering database object updates is easier and more reliable whether you're managing one database or a fleet of databases because the deployment plan is dynamically calculated through the SqlPackage CLI. In this session we’ll learn how to develop and deploy your database alongside your app components with SQL projects from the IDE to CI/CD.
Dac Eff What? Customize your database DevOps practices with SqlPackage and DacFx
In this session we’ll learn how to augment your DevOps practice for databases and open the door to more advanced scenarios with the Data-Tier Application Framework (DacFx). Your “database as code,” SDK-style SQL projects bring new options to development processes through declarative database schema definition. A baseline knowledge of DacFx will enable you to unleash the power of database DevOps in your environment. Through a focus on demos, we will apply SQL projects and the DacFx namespace such that you are ready to take full control of your development process.
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