welcome back and welcome to the last video in this series
azure sql for beginners we've had a great time and we hope you've learned a
lot along the way in this last video we just wanted to
share some resources and inspire you with a call to action as you
can see there are a lot of resources that we have available for you
i just wanted to take a brief moment and explain what these
are uh the first link you're going to see is
to the azure sql fundamentals learning path
on microsoft learn this is going to enable you to go through
all the text and links behind all of the content you've seen
in this series as well as leveraging a built-in sandbox environment this means
you can try some of the labs and demos that you've seen here
without having an azure subscription or the right types of
roles or or or funding or that sort of thing so you can for free
get started get hands-on with azure sql the next one is the azure sql workshop
which is currently hosted on github that's where you can find the
deck for for this series as well as some
additional markdown information and references and step-by-step
instructions on how to do every single lab and demo you've seen in
the series so that's a great one to check out
and if you have any issues or challenges or problems you know feel free to
file an issue with that in github the third one is the how to choose tool
we've talked a lot about what to use when when it comes to
azure sql database managed instance virtual machines serverless hyperscale
and some of the other options there's actually a tool that we recently
launched that you can go use answer a few questions and get a good
idea of where might be the best place for you to land in your specific
scenario then of course there's the azure sql
documentation this is just a you know a wealth of knowledge here we
encourage you anytime you have a question you know i typically go
and search my question followed by docs and that will point me somewhere in the
azure sql documentation whether it's for virtual machines manage
instance or sql database finally i wanted to call
out our our show on youtube that we have if you enjoyed this series
and you're looking to see more technical information and demos from
the rest of our team not just us uh you should tune in to data expose where we
release weekly videos uh containing new information and deep
dives from members of our team you know anna we have covered so much
information in this beginner series in various in
some cases very technical details with hands-on
instructions and the resources you pointed to were great
but what does somebody want to do next about this here's what we think
go try this stuff go try it yourself we just talked about a sandbox environment
where you can actually run some of these exercises and show your colleagues
and your business owners how azure sql can empower you for your next
modern application or migration and then what we've seen to be successful for
many customers is to go pick a workload if you're unsure about
using azure sql pick a small workload and decide what to use as part of that
decision go to the pre-deployment planning exercises that we showed you
experiment with those different options make sure you're thinking about how you
do security availability and performance across the different options you pick
and then do a proof of concept one of the things we've seen people miss
out in these proof of concepts is they go
try to test their application but every customer i run to for sql server has
their own toolbox of scripts and various things
they use to manage and monitor their sql server
go test that stuff make sure all those things work with the
appropriate azure sql deployment option you have chosen but you know it sounds
like azure is not ready for production by saying those things that is far from
the truth we've talked about some customer
examples early in the series we feel azure sql options that are available out
there for you it is ready for business production workloads
for sql server users so you can look at customer case studies for azure sql out
there on the internet and find other big customers
in our experience we have seen major clients
move production workloads into the cloud with azure sql so we feel it's kind of
ready for prime time yeah and i would say with over you know
six million databases today running in our platform i can say you know a lot of
people are thinking this is the right next step for them
and you know as we close this out i just want to say how much fun this has been
and how much we appreciate you tuning in and really thank you for
hopefully learning and learning how to translate those sql server skills that
you have already into these azure sql skills that
you can easily develop yeah anna thanks for the opportunity to
be with you during we both learn from each other
as to this entire journey and i really enjoyed getting the opportunity to do
that and we really look forward to the community
and folks that look at this series to give us feedback on does this meet the
needs for you to be able to become knowledgeable in azure sql and just
continue your journey as you think about using microsoft and
azure for the cloud thanks bob and you know one last thing
i'll throw in there is if you did like this series and you
would want us to do something else let us know in the comments and we'll
see what we can do thanks everyone for watching and have a
great day