Improving Availability in SQL Server and Azure SQL Database

Learn about two innovations in – Accelerated Database Recovery and Resumable Operations – that will help you meet even the strictest SLAs by reducing startup and maintenance time and increasing up-time.

Have you ever stared at your database wondering if that transaction will ever finish rolling back? Maybe you rebooted the server to see if it would help and then the database was in recovery for hours? Gave up on index rebuilds because you can’t possibly get them done in a single maintenance window? If this sounds familiar, this session is for you! Learn about two innovations in SQL Server 2019 and Azure SQL Database – Accelerated Database Recovery and Resumable Operations – that will help you meet even the strictest SLAs by reducing startup and maintenance time and increasing up-time.

Speaker

Kevin Farlee has over 30 years in the industry, in both database as well as storage management software. In his current role, he is responsible developing features in the SQL including high availability features across Windows and Linux platforms.

Kevin Farlee's Sessions

Improving Availability in SQL Server and Azure SQL Database

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