22-25 April 2026 
SQLBits 2024
Shift-Left: A DevOps and Database Story
Database code often works well in a test environment, but end up causing significant performance issues when rolled out to production. In turn, these performance issues lead to lost productivity, excess resource consumption, and lost time spent troubleshooting the issue. But what if we could catch those issues during development? Join Kevin Kline to learn how SolarWind's SQL Sentry can shift performance tuning left to the dev cycle so those issues never occur on production systems in the first place.
Database code often works well in a test environment, but end up causing significant performance issues when rolled out to production. In turn, these performance issues lead to lost productivity, excess resource consumption, and lost time spent troubleshooting the issue. But what if we could catch those issues during development? Join Kevin Kline to learn how SolarWind's SQL Sentry can shift performance tuning left to the dev cycle so those issues never occur on production systems in the first place.
Speakers
Kevin Kline's other proposed sessions for 2026
Query Tuning Internals for the Advanced SQL Developer - Part 1 - 2026
Query Tuning Telemetry for the Advanced SQL Developer - Part 2 - 2026
Stop Firefighting! How to Beat the DBA Burnout Crisis - 2026
Kevin Kline's previous sessions
How to Conduct a Transact-SQL Code Review
Learn a collection of important best practice for Transact-SQL code and how to integrate them into your code acceptance testing for better performance and efficiency.
Shift-Left: A DevOps and Database Story
Database code often works well in a test environment, but end up causing significant performance issues when rolled out to production. In turn, these performance issues lead to lost productivity, excess resource consumption, and lost time spent troubleshooting the issue. But what if we could catch those issues during development? Join Kevin Kline to learn how SolarWind's SQL Sentry can shift performance tuning left to the dev cycle so those issues never occur on production systems in the first place.
SQL Horror Stories
Join Kevin Kline as he takes you on a guided tour of some of the worst and most horrible SQL coding experiences. Some were intention and some were accidental. But all of them will make you wince and laugh! Learn new SQL coding tips and tricks from these cautionary tales.