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PaaS Database (and services beyond databases) solutions are everywhere in IT organizations. PaaS market themselves as trading off full control of a platform for reduced management overhead. But what are those trade-offs, and are they worth it to your business? In this session, you will learn about what you are giving up through the lens of services like Amazon RDS, Azure SQL Database, and Azure SQL Managed Instance, and what productivity gains you are getting. You will leave this session with an informed decision matrix around the best choices, not just your data platform, but generally evaluating PaaS vs IaaS decisions across IT solutions.

IN PERSON MEETING!!!!! You hear a lot in the tech media about the movement to open source databases to reduce the overall cost of applications. Sure databases like PostgreSQL and DuckDB do specific things well, but they do have tradeoffs. In this session you will learn about when it can be a good idea to choose an open-source database for your application, but you will also learn about some of the features that make SQL Server (and all of the related Azure services) stand out ahead of the “free” open-source databases.

IN PERSON MEETING!!!!! Have you just been told about how the latest, greatest SaaS product is going to change your life, make you lose weight, and double your companies profits? Did that sound like a bit much from the vendor? In this fun session, you will learn about the different types of database options in the cloud, from virtual machines, to data lakes, to the various PaaS services. You will learn what types of services are good for which type of workloads, and where the mismatches are. Most of all, you’ll learn from my experience and not just the latest marketing message.

Would you like to master deploying SQL Server in the cloud using Microsoft's Azure platform? With the hands-on guidance in this book, you'll explore how to set up and configure SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines effectively. By the end, you'll have the knowledge to optimize, manage, and deploy your solutions. What this Book will help me do Understand platform availability for SQL Server in Azure Explore SQL Server IaaS and optimize its configuration Master deploying SQL Server on Linux and Windows in Azure Configure high-performance storage options tailored to SQL Server Learn disaster recovery strategies for SQL Server in Azure Author(s) Joey D'Antoni, Louis Davidson, Allan Hirt, and their co-authors bring years of experience in database management, cloud architecture, and technical writing. They aim to provide clear and actionable advice for working efficiently with SQL Server on Azure. Their insights come from real-world projects. Who is it for? This book is for developers, database administrators, and cloud architects who are looking to learn how to deploy SQL Server solutions on Azure Virtual Machines. If you are transitioning workloads to the cloud or need to manage or optimize such environments, this book will equip you with the skills you need. Basic SQL Server knowledge is helpful.