SQL Server Webcasts, Webinars and Videos
Upcoming Live SQL Server Webcasts
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Load Testing Storage Performance for SQL Server
Load testing for SQL Server - everything from planning to execution and interpreting the results to enhance performance. Participants will gain valuable insights into creating a load test that accurately mirrors their specific environment including understanding hardware capabilities, virtual machine configurations, cloud-specific considerations, and a detailed examination of the I/O stack and queuing mechanisms.
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Reduce Cost for SQL Server Workloads on AWS using Optimize CPUs Feature
Learn how to reduce the cost of running SQL Server on Amazon EC2 while increasing the price performance by using the Optimize CPUs feature on Amazon EC2.
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Tackling the Gaps and Islands Problem with T-SQL Window Functions
Learn about window functions in T-SQL with a practical use case, the gaps and islands problem is explained and solved. At the end of the session, you should feel confident in using window functions in your own data analyses.
On-demand SQL Server Webinars
Amazon AWS
- Accelerate Migration from Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon Aurora for PostgreSQL with Babelfish
- Accelerate SQL Server Application Migrations to AWS using Migration Hub Orchestrator
- Amazon Quickstart: SIOS DataKeeper For SQL Server on AWS
- Amp Up Your SQL Server databases on AWS
- Application and SQL Server Migrations - Minimize Risks, Downtime and Re-Work
- Availability Options for SQL Server in AWS
- Best Practices for Cloud-Based Modern .NET Apps and SQL Server
- How to be an ACE DBA with Amazon RDS for SQL Server
- Learn How to Simplify SQL Server Migrations to AWS
- Mastering Microsoft SQL Server Licensing on AWS: Cut Costs and Simplify Compliance
- Navigate SQL Server End of Support (EOS) Challenges
- Reduce your SQL Server costs in the Cloud
- SQL Server Cloud Optimization Strategies - Costs, Licensing and Infrastructure
- SQL Server in The Cloud: High Availability and Disaster Recovery in Azure, AWS and Google
- SQL Server Performance Benchmarking and Optimization on AWS
Amazon AWS RDS
- Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server
- Best of Both Worlds for SQL Server in the Cloud - Cost Savings and Managed Services
Analysis Services Development
Analysis Services Performance
Application Development
- DBA Code Reviews Done Dirt Cheap
- Managing SQL Server Source Code
- Solving Data Integration Challenges for SQL Server Professionals
- Writing efficient code for SQL Server Based Applications
Auditing and Compliance
- An Introduction to Auditing & Compliance for SQL Server
- How to ensure data reliability, accessibility, and protection by monitoring SQL Server
- Preparing Your SQL Servers for an Audit
- SQL Server Data Security and Compliance
Availability Groups
- Fundamentals of SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups
- SQL Server high availability with AlwaysOn - First Look
Azure
- 3 Ways to move databases to the cloud and back, which way is best for you?
- Azure SQL Database performance
- Microsoft Azure SQL Database Security and Compliance
- Moving SQL workloads to the cloud
- Optimizing SQL Server Costs in Azure
Azure Data Factory
Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Five ways to improve data security on Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Modernize Your Apps with Azure SQL Managed Instance and Unlock the Benefits of the Cloud
- Optimize your costs with Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Set Yourself Up for Performance Success on Azure SQL Managed Instance
- The flexibility of hybrid options with Azure SQL Managed Instance
Backup
- An introduction by Microsoft to the new SQL Server 2022 backup and restore options
- Optimizing SQL Server Backups on AWS: Best Practices and Cost-Efficient Strategies
Backup and Restore
Big Data
Cloud
- Migrating SQL Server to the cloud
- Monitoring and Improving SQL Server Performance in the Cloud
- SQL Server High Availability in Google Cloud Platform
- SQL Server Resilience for Hybrid Cloud
Clustering
Data Cleansing for Validation
- Accurate Data for Decision Making - How to Improve Business Insights
- Advanced SQL Data Profiling with Unison
- Real Time Data Verification
- Real Time DataGen API for SQL Server
- Validating and Enriching SQL Server data with Unison
Data Quality Services
- Advanced Matching and Record Consolidation to Improve Data Quality
- Contact Data Quality - From Start to Finish
- Enhancing Your ETL Pipelines with Custom Data Cleansing and Matching
- Fundamentals of SQL Server Contact Data Cleansing
- Integrating Matching in SQL Server with Melissa's MatchUp
- Real-Time Data Validation API for SQL Server using Power Apps and Python
Data Warehousing
Database Administration
- Calculating Costs for SQL Server - On-Premises vs. Cloud
- DBA Best Practices - How to be a Smarter DBA
- How to ACTUALLY save money in the cloud with SQL Server
- How to Avoid Worst Practices as a SQL Server DBA
- Rewiring Your Culture for an AI-Augmented Future with Intelligent DataOps
- Simplified Multi-Platform Database Management for Managed Service Providers (MSPs)
- SQL Server Database Administration Best Practices
- SQL Server Database Administration Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices
- Things I Wish I Knew as a DBA
- Troubleshooting the most common SQL Server Problems
- What a DBA Needs to Know about SQL Server Administration
Database Design
DBA Best Practices
- Common SQL Server development mistakes and how to avoid them
- Development Best Practices for SQL Server
- SQL Server Development Best Practices
- Surviving The First Week As The New DBA
DevOps
Disaster Recovery
- Disaster Recovery in the Cloud: Understanding Challenges and Strategies for SQL Server
- Disaster Recovery Planning for Critical Applications in AWS
- Disaster: LIVE! - SQL Server from disaster to operational
- Recover SQL Server databases instantly after disaster strikes
- SQL Server and Networking High Availability\Disaster Recovery Best Practices
- SQL Server Architecture Options for Disaster Recovery and High Availability
- SQL Server Disaster Recovery Options
- SQL Server Disaster Recovery Strategies
- Understanding SQL Server Disaster Recovery Options
Encryption
- Easily Encrypt SQL Server Databases and Backups - All Versions and Editions
- Secure, Simple and Affordable SQL Server Database Encryption
- SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption Alternative from DBDefence
Google Cloud
Hardware
High Availability
- Achieving Availability with Hybrid SQL Server Architectures
- Achieving Resilience in Building Management and Security Systems: Essential Strategies for SQL Server High Availability
- Achieving SQL Server High Availability in Azure
- Budget Guide for a Productive, Protected SQL Server Environment in 2021
- Cost-Saving High Availability for Critical SQL Server Applications in Azure
- Empowering Education: Enhancing System Availability with SIOS Solutions
- Ensuring High Availability in a Multi-Cloud Environment: Lessons from the CrowdStrike Outage
- Exploring the Benefits of Single Server Protection High Availability in Windows Environments
- High Availability Protection for Critical SQL Server Applications: The Human Factor
- How To Disaster-Proof SQL Server
- Improving SQL Server TCO - Performance, Licensing, High Availability & Disaster Recovery
- Leveraging Storage Spaces Direct for SQL Server High Availability
- Maximizing Uptime: High Availability Strategies for SQL Server and Multi-Platform Environments
- Multi-cloud HA/DR: Separating Fact from Fiction
- Navigating Data Security, Availability, and Compliance in Retail: SQL Server Challenges Unveiled
- Preparing for Disaster: Outage-Proofing SQL Server
- SQL Server Business Continuity – Know Your Options
- Understanding the Availability Chain and its Impact on SQL Server
- Uninterrupted Transactions: Achieving High Availability for Financial Services on AWS
- WHOLE-ISTIC Protection of SQL Server in Azure
Indexing
- Getting the Right SQL Server Indexes for Peak Performance
- Introduction to SQL Server Indexing
- SQL Server Indexing for High Performance
- SQL Server Missing Index Recommendations: Do's and Don'ts
- SQL Server—Indexing for Performance
- Supercharge Your SQL Server Data Warehouse with Columnstore Indexes
Integration Services Best Practices
- SQL Server Integration Services Best Practices and Tuning Tips
- What''s New for Business Intelligence in SQL Server 2016
Integration Services Development
- A Powerful and Secure Alternative to SSIS
- Beyond the Basics - Take Your Biml Skills to the Next Level
- Cleaning, Validating and Enhancing the SQL Server Data Warehouse Contact Dimension
- Executing, Configuring and Scheduling SQL Server 2016 Integration Services Packages
- Gain Insight with Email Verification Tools for SSIS
- Getting Started with SSIS
- Getting Started with SSIS - Advanced Topics
- Improve SQL Server Data Quality in SSIS
- Improving Data Quality with SQL Server Integration Services
- Introduction to Azure Data Factory
- Introduction to Biml - Generating your SSIS packages from scratch
- Migrating SQL Server Integration Services to the Cloud
- Simplifying and Centralizing Universal Data Quality in SSIS
- Solving Issues Caused by Bad Address Data Quality
Licensing
Locking and Blocking
Log Shipping
Maintenance
- Best Practices for SQL Server Maintenance
- Keeping Your SQL Servers Running Strong
- SQL Server Maintenance Tasks You Probably Aren't Doing
Master Data Services
Microsoft Fabric
Monitoring
- A Beginners Guide to SQL Server Monitoring
- Database Monitoring and Management - Manage more, better and for less
- Effective Database Monitoring - Eliminate Distractions and Focus on Real Issues
- Efficient monitoring and management of SQL Server farms
- Is the Database the Culprit of Your Application Issues?
- Is Your Database Monitoring Tool Providing Value?
- Monitor the performance of Azure SQL Database, Amazon RDS for SQL Server, and SQL Server
- Monitoring SQL Server - What, When, and How?
- SQL Server Monitoring Meets Machine Learning
- Working Around the Workload
Performance Tuning
- Achieve Optimal SQL Server Performance
- Advanced Performance Tuning for Microsoft SQL Server
- Announcing Extraordinary SQL Optimization: Advanced Machine Learning Analytics Meets SQL Server Domain Insight
- Database Performance Tuning for Virtualized Database Instances
- End to End SQL Server Application Performance Management with AimBetter
- Exploring the Plan Cache to Optimize SQL Server Performance
- Exploring Whether Storage is the Root Cause of Your Performance Woes
- Feel the Need… the Need for Speed in your SQL Server databases!
- Finding Poorly Performing SQL Queries
- From 10,000 Feet to 10 Feet, Complete SQL Monitoring
- Gathering and using historical data to solve SQL Server performance issues
- How To Troubleshoot SQL Server Using Wait Stats
- Identify and Understand Important Data to Improve SQL Server Performance
- Identify SQL Server Performance Problems Quickly and Efficiently
- Improving SQL Server Virtual Machine Storage Performance
- Introduction to SQL Server Statistics
- It’s the Database. Or Is It? Put an End to Finger Pointing!
- Let's Dive Into SQL Server I/O To Improve T-SQL Performance
- Making SQL Server Faster
- Master 5 Common SQL Server Monitoring Challenges
- Microsoft SQL Monitoring with SolarWinds SAM and DPA - the Dynamic Duo
- Modern High-Performance Tools for SQL DBAs
- Modern High-Performance Tools for SQL Server DBAs
- Performance Testing SQL Queries with SqlQueryStress
- Performance Troubleshooting SQL Server with Native Tools
- Performance Tuning SQL Server using Wait Statistics
- Rapidly detect, diagnose and resolve performance issues across your physical, virtual and cloud-based SQL Server databases
- Solving Oracle Performance Issues in Four Easy Steps
- SQL Server on VMWare Performance Optimization
- SQL Server Performance Tuning - Advanced Techniques
- SQL Server Performance Tuning Hints and Tricks
- SQL Server performance tuning in the cloud
- The Future of SQL Server Database Tuning
- Trends in SQL Server Performance Tuning
- Troubleshooting Poor SQL Server Query Performance
- Using SQL Server Query Store & Plan Guides to Fix Problem Queries
- Why Are My SQL Server Queries So Slow?
Power BI
Professional Development Career
- 15 Traits of Top Performers
- Branding Yourself as a SQL Server Professional
- Conducting an Effective SQL Server Job Search
- Interview Coaching for SQL Server Professionals
- Resume Writing for SQL Server Professionals
- The Great Resignation and the Impact on IT
Professional Development Job Search
Query Optimization
- Faster Transactions: SQL Server Query Tuning Techniques
- Indexing for Performance: Query Strategies to Maximize Your SQL Server Indexes
- Tuning Problematic SQL Server Queries with Minimal Changes
Query Plans
Query Store
Reporting Services Development
Security
- Building a Proper SQL Server Database Security Model
- Don’t Be the Next Data Breach - How to Secure SQL Server in the Cloud
- Easily Create Non-Sensitive Copies of Production Databases
- How to Conduct a Security Review on SQL Server
- How to Secure SQL Server - End to End Security
- Identify and Protect Confidential SQL Server Data
- Monitoring, Securing and Protecting SQL Servers in Amazon RDS
- SQL Injection: What it is, how it happens and how to stop it?
SQL Server 2019
SQL Server 2022
- SQL Server 2022 New Storage Features
- SQL Server 2022 The hybrid data platform
- SQL Server and AMD in the era of AI for Accelerated Performance
SQL Server Agent
SQL Server Configurations
Tools
TSQL
- Build SQL Server APIs Rapidly
- Building Better SQL Server Queries and Working with Data
- Development Tips for SQL Server
- How to Optimize and Speed Up Your SQL
- Master Your Data Environment With DataOps
- Protecting your data with data anonymization
- T-SQL Best Practices and Tuning for the BI/DWH Developer
Upgrades and Migrations
- Modernize in place with SQL Server 2022 and AMD
- SQL Server 2012 / 2014 - is it worth the effort of upgrading
Virtualization
- Building the Best Virtual SQL Server Environments
- Running SQL Server on Virtual Machines Best Practices
- Tips for Virtualizing Microsoft SQL Server
