SQL Saturday Raleigh 2025 (#1111)

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SQL Saturday Raleigh is a free one-day training event for IT professionals and students interested in the Microsoft data platform space, including SQL Server, Azure, data science, data, engineering, and more!

There is a precon available on Friday. Please click the link for more details.

Precon Tickets are now on sale

Faster, Cheaper Cloud Databases is a full day precon on Friday, May 16, 2025.

You're managing databases that live in AWS, Azure, and Google, and you're getting a lot of questions about slow performance and crazy costs. Your users want everything faster and cheaper, and you're not finding good answers.

Join me, Brent Ozar, for a day of real-time demos, honest war stories, and practical fixes.

You can get more detail and register for the pre-con here: https://training.brentozar.com/p/faster-cheaper-cloud-databases

The official website is: https://www.meetup.com/tripass/

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Location

The event is taking place at:
Duke Health,
14 Moore Dr,
Durham, NC 27703

 

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Code of Conduct

There is a code of conduct for this event that all attendees are expected to follow. Please report violations to the organizers If you need to report a Code of Conduct violation, please contact the organizers and send a copy to coc@sqlsaturday.com

Data Privacy

This event adheres to the generic data privacy policy. Please be aware that by registering, you give permission for organizers to share data with sponsors. Sponsors are required to adhere to their own data privacy policy in using this data.

Precons

Faster, Cheaper Cloud Databases

For Microsoft databases in AWS, Azure, and Google.

You're managing databases that live in AWS, Azure, and Google, and you're getting a lot of questions about slow performance and crazy costs. Your users want everything faster and cheaper, and you're not finding good answers.

Join me, Brent Ozar, for a day of real-time demos, honest war stories, and practical fixes. I'll tackle an Azure SQL DB Managed Instance in the morning, and then an Amazon RDS SQL Server in the afternoon. I'll show how I use the First Responder Kit to assess the bottleneck, mitigate as much as I can with index and query tuning, and then write up a business case for management for better future budgeting.

Throughout the day, I'll include real-life stories from my cloud clients, with names changed to protect the innocent. I'll explain what worked, what didn't, and what went up in expensive flames.

You'll learn:

• How Brent uses the First Responder Kit to assess a cloud SQL Server's wait types
• Why each cloud vendor's VM quirks make performance tuning tricky, and how to adapt
• How to fix blocking, logging, and CPU issues when the hardware isn't yours
• How to write a persuasive performance report for management to fairly lay out where the problem is, and what steps to take next

By the end of the day, you'll be armed with real-world techniques for keeping your cloud databases faster, cheaper, and more future-proof.

You can get more detail and register for the pre-con here: https://training.brentozar.com/p/faster-cheaper-cloud-databases

 

Location ● Sponsors ● Pre-cons ● Schedule ● Speakers ● Volunteers ● Contact ● Sponsorship Plans

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