welcome we're really glad to have you here today we're very fortunate to have
Luis Vargas principal program manager on the sequel team and I'm wind Johnson
Senior Product Marketing Manager on the data platform see any marketing team
Louise today guys we're here today we're thinking mostly about sequel running on
as your VMs you tell me why sequel runs best on Azure totally so first let's
talk about performance so in not sure we have the highest performance for sequel
server one of the reasons is we have more storage bandwidth for these virtual
machines and what that means is the amount of data that these virtual
machines can read and write from the storage is higher than other clouds next
thing is we have a rich cash that is local to the virtual machines this with
cash listen an SSD and that means that every time a sequel tries to read some
data you can read it in me second latency right sometimes less than one
millisecond and that means that your queries are going to return faster
second thing is we have all the expected for sequel server obviously in the
sequel cyber team and we have used that expertise to make sure that district old
machines that you create for sequel server in Azure compare configure with
all the best practices for whatever worker you want to run so if you want to
run for example transactional processing we have all the respective is in place
or same thing for data warehousing or bi right so you don't have to worry about
those things as you will do in our cloud the final thing is the sequence ever
code itself uses a sure to make some operations better and this is because we
have both the code for sequel server and the culprit a sure so we can do things
for example to make backups really fast so sequel server can use the storage
system in Azure so that backers can take seconds even if the database is multi
terabytes right so exactly something something that is very important to have
the highest performance the second thing is we have a lot more support for the
different options of sequel server so for example obviously we have all the
different versions of the different editions but on top of that we have seco
server developer which is a free sequel server version for development and
testing and secure server express which is also free for a small worker so you
have a very small work of like website for example you can use sequel
Express and it's completely free so again the only cloud will you have those
free offerings right we have windows on Linux support so we started supporting
now sequel several linux as well we're the only cloud that offers that option
for customers as well and finally we don't take these images with sickles
ever bed very frequently so on the same day when we release something like the
new service pack for example for sequel server or if there is any critical fixes
for example for security or performance for Windows or sequel we have those
fixes individual machines on the same day when when is released so very very
important to have data so as well the other aspect is the simplified
management and content and all the control that we offer customers on one
hand we simplify operations for example I computing high availability with
always on and we have templates all to me that we simplify things like
automatically patching sequel server and windows or taking backup for all of
those databases so these are common operations that customers normally need
to do we can simplify them an ultimatum in the context of azure put outside of
that we still give a hundred percent control to the customer so if a customer
wants to go and change whatever setting they won on windows or on sequel server
if they want install whatever binary they want to have in that virtual
machine they can do it as well so lots of automation and management but at same
time all the controller you want and finally we have some easy monitoring for
example and alerting so you can monitor different situations if sequel server is
running they say auto memory or if you have a high number of transaction for
example or you hit a deadlock you can monitor those experiences and get
alerted very easily as well we have something called the best practice
advisor because only only available in natural and what it does it checks
around 90 different best practices for sequel server so it will verify for
example that you have all the security respecters in place that you have all
the high availability of business continuity best practice in place it's
almost like having an expert that is continuously verifying your deployment
and telling you how you're doing right and again only available in Azure is
there you see for customers to bring their licenses so we know that we have a
lot of customers that already old sequel server licenses in their own premises
environment and can very easily bring them into a sure
as well so we have something called byl images or images for bring your license
and customers can easily create a brutal machine out of those licenses they can
use that let us know that they're going to bring a certain number of licenses
and they kind of file using those virtual machines we don't having to pay
for the seco license because they already have them so the only Club where
they can do that very very easy to bring your licenses actually we're going to
very soon allow customers to change between paying the secon license per
minute or bringing the license we're going to allow them to do that so they
can start paying per minute for example right and at some point they want to
move and change the life so they will be able to do it in place very very easily
something else that is coming and finally where a single bender right
again we own both the code for sequel server and the code for action because
of that there is a single team to support both platforms right so if a
customer runs into any type of issue any type of situation we can fix it all the
way from the database system into the platform right and the brittle machines
the storage the network we own everything so customers will need to
have different vendors supporting the deployments also we provide consistency
of experiences for sequel server so the same experience that you have for sickle
cyber running in your corporate environment is the same one day you're
going to have inertia brutal machine right it's the same one that you're
going to have a natural step for example which you can use now to build a private
cloud I saw all of that consistency again we're able to do because we have
the code for secure server and finally at sea cosa we'd sell leverage Chief
Asher already today for many operations so people who today use equal several
2014 for example or 2016 they may know that we already have things like back up
to Azure storage so you can take some backup so music ooh seven-story
miniature or you can create replicas for high-availability disaster recovery
where you can have your always on second is running in Asia for example or you
can stretch your database into a shore so that if your database is going really
fast you can stop pushing some of that data into a sure as well without having
to wait for the storage management so all of these you know very good reasons
why to host sequel server nature and I hope that talented you a question Lewis
that was very I was very useful I think it really helps us to kind of still out
exactly um a wide sequel run so well unanswered
even the best you know so after all those things that you told us what would
you recommend somebody do yeah so at this point the best thing is going open
a free trial not sure so you had two hundred dollars for free credit you can
go and start using for example sequel server developer edition so you can
create one brutal machine with sickle cyber developer is going to be free
license as well so you can run for a whole month we seek will develop
analytical machine on SSDs which is going to be pretty fast and just try the
offering right and if you are interested obviously you can go on tricycle several
linux as well now that we have it in the platform thank you very much lewis that
was very informative and very helpful to understand how sequel runs on add your
vm better than anywhere else please take us up on that the offer to use your two
hundred dollar credit and spin up a vm today thank you so much thank