John Martin
John is an experienced data platform professional and principal consultant at Broch Solutions with over 15 years of experience in data platform and cloud technologies.
Working with both the Azure and AWS clouds to solve data platform problems for clients for operational or analytical workloads.
Throughout his career, John has learned how to get the most out of these platforms as well as the key pitfalls that should be avoided.
John Martin's Training Days
SentryOne Performance Bootcamp 2017SQLBits 2017
Join the most knowledgeable and passionate people in the SQL Server vendor community for a day of in-depth performance tuning education.
Upgrading to Microsoft SQL Server 2014SQLBits 2015
With Microsoft SQL Server 2005 going End Of Life in early 2016 it is vital to start planning your migration to a supported version of Microsoft SQL Server. let me help you get ready for this by helping you understand the process and tools available.
Upgrading to Microsoft SQL Server 2014SQLBits 2015
With Microsoft SQL Server 2005 going End Of Life in early 2016 it is vital to start planning your migration to a supported version of Microsoft SQL Server. let me help you get ready for this by helping you understand the process and tools available.
Upgrading to Microsoft SQL Server 2014SQLBits 2015
With Microsoft SQL Server 2005 going End Of Life in early 2016 it is vital to start planning your migration to a supported version of Microsoft SQL Server. let me help you get ready for this by helping you understand the process and tools available.
Upgrading to Microsoft SQL Server 2014SQLBits 2015
With Microsoft SQL Server 2005 going End Of Life in early 2016 it is vital to start planning your migration to a supported version of Microsoft SQL Server. let me help you get ready for this by helping you understand the process and tools available.
Upgrading to Microsoft SQL Server 2014SQLBits 2015
With Microsoft SQL Server 2005 going End Of Life in early 2016 it is vital to start planning your migration to a supported version of Microsoft SQL Server. let me help you get ready for this by helping you understand the process and tools available.
Upgrading to Microsoft SQL Server 2014SQLBits 2015
With Microsoft SQL Server 2005 going End Of Life in early 2016 it is vital to start planning your migration to a supported version of Microsoft SQL Server. let me help you get ready for this by helping you understand the process and tools available.
John Martin's Sessions
The Swiss Cheese Security PatternSQLBits 2024
Understanding that there is no panacea when it comes to securing your data assets is important. We will look at how to adopt the right mindset and then build a secure architecture to minimise the risk to your data.
Introduction to Infrastructure as Code with TerraformSQLBits 2020
Join John as he introduces Terraform as a cloud agnostic management interface for taking a code first approach to cloud infrastrucutre deployments.
Making Managed Instance Perform, a dive into storage.SQLBits 2019
Moving to the cloud means that we need to take a different approach when it comes to how we design and tune databases. Managed Instance included, get the storage configuration wrong and it will not perform. We'll look at the storage options and architecture for Managed Instance before demonstrating how to get tune the storage layer to get the performance we need
SQL Server 2016, New Features & EnhancementsSQLBits 2016
SQL Sever 2016 is just around the corner and with it come some great new features and enhancements to existing capabilities, in this session we will look at some of these and understand how they might make us change the way that we look at designing
In-Memory OLTP, how to use itSQLBits 2015
We have all heard about In-memory OLTP and how fast it can go, but just how do you use it? In this session we will look at how to migrate a system to use this new capability.
The Swiss Cheese Security PatternSQLBits 2024
Understanding that there is no panacea when it comes to securing your data assets is important. We will look at how to adopt the right mindset and then build a secure architecture to minimise the risk to your data.
Introduction to Infrastructure as Code with TerraformSQLBits 2020
Join John as he introduces Terraform as a cloud agnostic management interface for taking a code first approach to cloud infrastrucutre deployments.
Making Managed Instance Perform, a dive into storage.SQLBits 2019
Moving to the cloud means that we need to take a different approach when it comes to how we design and tune databases. Managed Instance included, get the storage configuration wrong and it will not perform. We'll look at the storage options and architecture for Managed Instance before demonstrating how to get tune the storage layer to get the performance we need
In-Memory OLTP, how to use itSQLBits 2015
We have all heard about In-memory OLTP and how fast it can go, but just how do you use it? In this session we will look at how to migrate a system to use this new capability.