Edwin M Sarmiento

is the Managing Director of 15C, a consulting and training company that specializes in designing, implementing and supporting SQL Server infrastructures. He is a 12-year former Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Microsoft Certified Master from Ottawa, Canada (but he’s originally from the Philippines) specializing in high availability, disaster recovery and system infrastructures running on the Microsoft server technology stack. His background in Unix has taken him to the world of DevOps and Docker to containerize SQL Server. He is very passionate about technology but has interests in music, neuroscience, social psychology, professional and organizational development, leadership and management matters when not working with databases. Edwin lives up to his primary mission statement: "To help people and organizations grow and develop their full potential."

Sessions for 2026

Always On Availability Groups and Failover Clustering Internals

Dive deep into the internals of the Windows Server Failover Cluster, the SQL Server cluster resource DLL, and how they work together to make your SQL Server databases highly available

Architecting and Implementing On-Premises High Availability Solutions for PostgreSQL

Learn practical skills so you can design and implement high availability solutions for your PostgreSQL databases through this workshop.

Azure SQL Cloud Workshop for Database Professionals

Learn practical skills so you can start migrating your on-premises SQL Server databases to Microsoft Azure through this hands-on lab workshop.

Migrate Your On-Premises SQL Server Databases to Microsoft Azure

This session is all about migrating your on-premises SQL Server databases to Microsoft Azure. And instead of being overwhelmed with all the different features and options available to you, we will concentrate only on the ones that you will need for the migration.

SQL Server Transaction Log Internals and How It Affects HA/DR

Dive deep into the internals of the SQL Server transaction log and how it affects every single high availability and disaster recovery solution you implement.

Previous Sessions

What SQL Server DBAs Need to Know About Docker Containers

Get introduced to SQL Server on containers and what you need to know as a DBA to start deploying and managing them in both development and production environments