Earlier today I presented at the Get to know SQL Server 2016 / Business Intelligence / Azure event at 1cc. My talk was “Azure SQL Database: Not just a cloud version of SQL Server” to an inquisitive Cambridge audience.
My deck is here: Azure SQL Database – not just a cloud version of SQL Server – NESQL -June-24-2016 – Bill Wilder – posted
The PowerShell script I demo’d is included in the gist referenced below.
I spoke tonight at the New England SQL Server Group to a large audience of feisty SQL experts. Thanks for all the tough questions. And thanks to George for backing me up on questions I couldn’t answer.
Abstract:
The Microsoft Azure cloud platform offers a service called Azure SQL Database. How does this compare to SQL Server, the venerable boxed product so many DBAs have come to know and love? In this talk from long-time Azure MVP Bill Wilder, we will look at similarities and differences. We will also briefly talk about complementary data storage sources that may also interest DBAs. At the end of the talk, you will understand the big picture of database options in the cloud, how Azure SQL Database is positioned and stacks up relative to SQL, and leave with an appreciation of key scenarios where it might make sense to use one over the other.
One thing I didn’t get to work was the PowerShell cleanup at the end. I ran it later and here is the code (the last line is the one I botched during the demo):
Add-AzureRmAccount # then log in interactively, including with 2FA🙂 Select-AzureRmSubscription -SubscriptionName MyAzureSubsriptionNameHere Get-AzureRmSubscription # optional Find-AzureRmResource -ResourceGroupNameContains sqltest # optional Remove-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name sqltest -Force
For those interested, here is the deck:
On 30-Mar-2016, I gave two talks: one at SecureWorld Boston (How Adopting the Public Cloud Can Improve Your Enterprise Security), and another at the ISSA NE breakfast meeting (The Cloud: Headache or Aspirin? An information security perspective.).
Since the decks used in talks are so similar, I have posted just the deck for the SecureWorld talk.
Deck is in PDF format since the PPTX file was pretty big.
Thanks for everyone who attended!
This past Friday afternoon, I spoke to a highly engaged group in an event hosted at the Finomial office in Kolkata, W. Bengal, India. There were two topics:
This started out being advertised as a “remote” Boston Azure event since it took place 7,000 miles/12,000 kilometers from our usual location in the Boston area. Later, a local Kolkata Azure event page was created for the event.
The event was well attended and the audience was lively and inquisitive. The slide deck used (both talks in one deck) follow:
2015-Aug-21-azure-overview-and-cloud-architecture-anti-patterns-kolkatazure
On May 20 I presented Cloud Architecture Anti-Patterns: A concise overview of some bad ideas to the .NET Architecture Group.
Here is the deck:
Any feedback is welcome. Feel free to comment here or on the twitters:@codingoutloud.
Today I was pleased to present the talk “Hidden Azure” as part of the 2015 Global Azure Bootcamp, the 3rd such annual and globally-coordinated event involving many sites (175?) spread all over the world!
There were tens-of-thousands of VM core hours in use (even 22,000 at one point) throughout the day…
I presented live in Boston to an engaged audience, but was not able to see who was listening in the outside world! But I do know there was at least one person – which made it worthwhile.🙂
Here’s the deck I used:
Find me, Boston Azure, and Global Azure Bootcamp on the twitters:
Last night I was pleased to speak at Zoran B. Djordjević‘s Cloud Computing class at Harvard Extension (my 4th year). After dazzling the class with my prowess at plugging in my laptop to the projector, we jumped into the public cloud, with lots of Azure specifics – and how designing applications for the public cloud is different than what they might be used to (whether Azure, Amazon, or Google) – along with really good questions and discussion…
If you are interested in such things, I’m on twitter (@codingoutloud), have been running the Boston Azure cloud user group for five years, and wrote a book on Cloud Architecture Patterns.
