SQLBits 2014

Designing quality SQL Server 2014 solutions

This session shows how you can use SQL Server 2014’s features to meet your solution’s non-functional requirements and ensure operational success.

Every solution must be an operational success, yet knowing what needs to be done to make this happen can be difficult compared to meeting its more obvious functionality objectives. This is where quality attributes, also known as non-functional requirements, can help you define your operational readiness by identifying common quality attributes such as availability, manageability, scalability and security. This session will show how you can use SQL Server 2014’s features after having formally defined your criteria for operational success, and its demos and content is relevant to both database developers and database administrators.

Gavin Payne's previous sessions

An introduction to SQL Server for data scientists

A little bit of knowledge about how SQL Server works can go a long way towards making large data engineering queries run faster.

Designing quality SQL Server 2014 solutions

This session shows how you can use SQL Server 2014’s features to meet your solution’s non-functional requirements and ensure operational success.

The NUMA internals of SQL Server 2012

This session reviews the purpose of NUMA, how it changes the internal behaviours of Windows and SQL Server 2012 and NUMA related performance monitoring.

Through the virtual looking glass - monitoring virtualised SQL

Virtualisation changes the way you need to monitor the performance of a virtualised instance of SQL Server. In this session I will demonstrate a balanced and well-rounded approach to performance monitoring in the virtual world along with best practices to avoid poor virtualised performance.

Oracle for SQL Server DBAs

If you’ve only ever chosen to use Microsoft database products then there’s a chance you might hide a curiosity deep down about the Oracle database platform; or like me a few years ago be told that your next big production system will use it and now’s the time to upskill. This session introduces some key concepts and differences about the Oracle database platform to people like myself who are used to the UI-heavy Windows-based database world and hopefully make you curious enough to want to at least give it a try when you get back home.