>> Welcome back. Before we get
into the meat and potatoes of Azure SQL,
we thought it'd be nice to start with an introduction with
a history of how Azure SQL came to be.
Throughout the rest of the module,
we'll cover overview of
the various deployment options
and then some comparison between those,
especially how it relates to
the different service tiers and purchasing models.
Now as we start to think about the history of Azure SQL,
Bob, you've been around awhile.
Can you tell us a little bit
about the history of Azure SQL, as you've seen it?
>> A very kind of you'd is worth awhile,
Anna, giving your age and how long you've been at Microsoft.
But no, I remember being an employee back in 2008.
You see this photo right here,
Ray Ozzie had joined Microsoft,
as a Chief Technology Architect for the company.
Right brought with him
this amazing idea of taking our enterprise products,
such as Windows and SQL and turning
them into Cloud services that people would consume.
You see a photo right here of Ray,
that was called the Professional Developers Conference in 2008,
announcing Windows Azure and SQL was part of that.
Professional Developers Conference is
the predecessor to Build Conference today.
This is an amazing thing for Microsoft back
in the mid-2000s as we were getting
credibility in the enterprise space to come out and think that
Cloud services could be
these technologies versus something just Bing Search or Hotmail.
Let's take a little deeper dive into
the history of Azure SQL itself.
It's really come a long ways.
In fact, even before that announcement,
Windows Azure and SQL Azure,
has these Cloud of project names,
CloudDB for Azure SQL and RedDog for Windows Azure.
If you look at this evolution,
along the way up till today's time frame,
you can see it wasn't just policy about the technology,
sometimes it was a branding change.
For example, in 2012,
we took SQL Azure as a brand and
calls it Azure SQL Database which you see today.
Azure SQL Database you'll find out in
our series is part of the Azure SQL suit.
But there were other major product announcements
and changes that significantly
altered the landscape like
Azure Virtual Machines in 2013 was a very big milestone,
because before you didn't have the ability to do a complete VM.
We'll actually briefly talk about that some here
in the first module in a later video.
But I look 2015 as a huge landmark for us.
We launched something called V12.
That was a version of Azure SQL,
which underneath the covers changed the architecture to provide
a lot more resiliency and
performance for our customers in the Cloud.
Then you see here the evolution continues.
In '16 we want do things called Elastic Pools,
which we're going to mention in our videos.
Then finally, you're going to hear today,
because Anna had already mentioned to you about some of
the things we're going to cover the entire series.
Azure SQL Managed Instance,
project named Cloud Lifter because some of our customers
were struggling to lift
their applications and databases in the Cloud,
because of the surface area of Azure Database wasn't enough and
so we provide an instance of SQL Server called Managed Instance,
which you'll see throughout our series
and our entire training that we're providing you.
Then finally, if you look at last year was
a major milestone for Azure SQL.
Things like Hyperscale, which we're going to talk about to give
you new amazing performance capabilities.
Serverless, really cool technology for
auto-scaling and for great optimizing costs scenarios.
Then instance pools, which is
another factor of doing Azure Managed Instance.
If I look back from the very beginning in 2006,
all the way today,
we've changed the landscape of
evolution of how we presented SQL in the Cloud,
but also the branding to reflect
all the different options we're giving our customers.
You can see Azure SQL has this amazing legacy in history.
What we're going to show you in the rest of this series is
the great technology built on that foundation from so long ago.
We continue to iterate
an Azure SQL and you're going to see the fruits of
that through the entire series of all the [inaudible] provide you,
and how Azure SQL really is your SQL Server in the Cloud.
We hope to see you in the next video.