>> Hi, I'm Anna Hoffman and
welcome to this episode of Data Exposed.
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>> Today I have two guests with me.
The first is Marisa Brasile,
who is a Program Manager on the Azure SQL team.
Thanks for being here today.
>> Great to be here, Anna.
>> My second guest is Bob Ward.
Bob is a Principal Architect on the Azure SQL and SQL Server team.
Thanks for being here today Bob.
>> Hey, Anna.
>> Today we have some exciting news to share as a host and guest.
We're launching a few different things.
Bob, I was wondering if you could kick us off by telling us what
we're launching and what excites you the most about it?
>> Anna, we could be launching
the most comprehensive training content I have
ever seen our engineering team produced ever.
We've been working on this thing for months,
and the whole concept being is that we want to
teach people about Azure SQL,
your SQL Server person,
your database person, you understand what Azure SQL is all about.
I think we have what is necessary
for anyone out there to get what is Azure SQL,
how they can migrate to it,
how they can take advantage of it.
>> Thanks, Bob. Yeah, it's been a really fun long ride and
we're really excited to launch
a few different things on a few different platforms.
We'll be launching a series on YouTube which has 61 videos,
which is basically Bob and I taking you through
the meat and potatoes of SQL Server on Azure.
Then we also have all these resources hosted on GitHub,
so you can dive deeper into all the code samples and
demos that we do in the series.
We also have a whole learning path with six modules
launching on Microsoft Learn today which is really exciting.
This is going to allow you to leverage
the built-in sandbox of Microsoft Learn,
which basically means you don't need a subscription,
you don't need to have the right Azure permissions or Azure funds,
you can simply get to working for free
without having to worry about all that stuff.
Finally, and this is a really exciting one too,
in two weeks or about two weeks from now,
we'll be doing a live series called the Azure SQL boot camp,
where over the course of four days you'll have
two hour sessions with Bob
and I where we'll go into
covering all of this content that we had.
Bob, can you tell us a little bit about what it
is that we actually built and why we built it that way.
>> Yeah. Thanks Anna.
Just think about what you just said right there though.
Think of all the different ways you're
going to be able to learn Azure SQL,
whether it's watching videos
or looking at our source code on GitHub,
or learning with us live.
We don't even need an Azure subscription that really
opens the game for a lot of people to learn this content.
When we decided to build this content,
we wanted to make sure first we demystify, what is Azure SQL?
I mean, that term has been thrown around a lot.
But we want to make sure you understand what are
all the options in the Cloud for you to run SQL Server,
because we think Azure is the best SQL.
The best place to run SQL in the Cloud.
We want to show you the basics of
deploying and configuring Azure SQL
and compare that to that SQL Server experience
you know and love today.
Then Anna, you mentioned the word meat and potatoes.
If you think about the core of
the SQL server platform in the engine,
it usually involves security, performance, and availability.
So we want to go through and show you in a very hands-on approach,
what are those key aspects to securing your Azure SQL environment?
How do you make it perform?
How do you monitor and tune performance and
accelerate performance for Azure SQL?
Then how you make it highly available?
Anna, I know you agree with this.
The built-in availability story of Azure SQL is really amazing.
Anybody who had to configure that for
themselves is really going to be
excited to see what that's all about.
Those are really core technical concepts that deal with Azure SQL.
But I remember when you and I were
putting this all together, you said, "Bob,
there's got to be a way to tie all
this together in a very unique way."
Yeah, I'm not sure I remember exactly how that's going to go Anna.
>> Thanks Bob. Yeah, for the last module,
we really wanted to try something new and interesting.
To tell you about this module,
we wanted to bring on Marisa,
who you saw earlier,
and she's really the engine that's
working our team in the back-end,
keeping us organized, and keeping us
active on social and promotions,
and helping us get all this content out the door for you all,
including time coding all these videos so it
makes it easier for you all to watch and learn.
Marisa, can you tell us a little bit about
this fun thing that we did in the last module.
>> Yeah. Thanks Anna.
To put this all together,
Anna goes through client scenarios and
has Bob come up with solutions on the fly.
We'll ask you, the listener click "Comments"
on social media to let us
know how you would solve these challenges.
At this point, you'll have the expertise from the series to
determine solutions that may even be better than Bob's.
Anna, between you and me,
do you end up stumping Bob?
>> That's a great question Marisa.
I think I'll leave that as a surprise
and let people go watch the series and
see how Bob handles being put
on the spot at the end of our series.
Thanks Marisa. For all of you watching,
we hope this inspired you to really go out and learn Azure SQL.
We'll have links in our description,
and we hope that you can follow us also on Twitter,
like this video, comment,
and let us know what you think of
our series or any of the resources we put out.
We hope to see you next time on Data Exposed.
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