Jes Chapman
Cloud Solution Architect @ Microsoft
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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Jes Schultz is a Data & AI Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. With a dynamic background spanning software engineering to product management, and enriched by years as a SQL consultant and field engineer for SQL Server, Jes brings a wealth of expertise from the heart of Microsoft. A former five-time Microsoft Data Platform MVP, she's contributed to technical books and taught from stages worldwide with her passion for teaching. When not immersed in the cloud, you'll find Jes conquering trails, hiking through nature's wonders, or experimenting in the kitchen.
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Which Azure Database Option Should I Choose?
When you need a managed database in Azure, you're faced with a variety of choices. Is your data relational or not? Do you want SQL Database, PostgreSQL, or MySQL? What is Cosmos DB and why does it have five APIs? When should you use Azure Cache for Redis? Do all of these database options have the same compute and storage options? Do they provide the PaaS management tasks you want?
With a decade of Azure data experience behind me, let me guide you through the questions to ask to determine which Azure database to choose for your applications, so you can save time, money, and frustration in the long run.
Performance Tuning SQL Server for the Cloud
When your SQL database is in a cloud service, you're paying for performance. How can you maximize performance while minimizing costs? Join me in this session to learn about SQL Server's performance options that can be used to reduce CPU usage and storage, which will reduce costs and make your database faster! I'll show you how to use features such as rowstore and columnstore indexes, in-memory OLTP, and read scale-out to minimize query run times and optimize resource use. DMVs, Query Store, and intelligent query processing will be covered so you know how to look for expensive queries and let the database engine make your queries faster automatically. You'll be ready to get the most performance for the least amount of money from SQL in the cloud.
Ensuring Availability of your Azure SQL Databases
For a database administrator, availability of data is of utmost importance. Azure SQL Database has multiple layers of protection to consider for your business continuity plan. Start here to understand how they will work together to ensure the data your business has is available when your business needs it. In this workshop, I'll deep dive into the three pillars of your strategy - backups and restores, high availability, and disaster recovery. You'll learn what options are available for backup retention, both short- and long-term, along with how to perform restores in a timely manner. The high availability architecture of each SQL DB tier will be explained. The cross-region disaster recovery options will be compared. This demo-centered workshop will prepare you to set up and manage your business's most important asset!
(Note: this workshop does not cover SQL Server on Azure VMs or Azure SQL Managed Instance.)
Azure SQL Database Business Continuity
In the SQL Server world, you're responsible for every facet of business continuity including taking backups, testing and performing restores, and setting up and monitoring high availability and disaster recovery. Now you're moving to Azure SQL, and you need to know what you need to know. In this session, you'll learn how backups in Azure SQL Database work and how you can perform restores; how high availability is built in; and your options for setting up disaster recovery. I'll share best practices for ensuring your applications have the continuity they need.
Keynote: Busy is a Four-Letter Word
If I ask you, "How are you?", is your default answer, "I'm so busy!"? Why do we measure our worth by how much we are doing, rather than by the value of what we do? Are we busy doing the truly important things that will bring lasting happiness? What does this have to do with a technical group? Join me as I share with you how I, too, was too busy for too long, but am learning how to do less yet be more productive, and have bigger impact at work, in my community, and at home.
Which Azure SQL Database Options Should I Choose?
Happy 11th birthday, Azure SQL Database! Yes, that’s right – Microsoft’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) SQL database is eleven years old in 2021! It’s grown from “Azure SQL” to a multi-faceted service with many options. At its core, it has had the same goal for a decade – the service manages the hardware, patching, backups, high availability, and even tuning plans and indexes; you focus on development and performance. However, as it’s grown from one limited offering to a set of services, choosing the best option for your application and database has gotten confusing. Single database or managed instance, DTU or vCore, serverless, hyperscale - how do you know which one is right for your needs? In this presentation, I’ll explain the many options available and provide guidance on how to choose the best one for your project.
Jes Chapman
Cloud Solution Architect @ Microsoft
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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