Level: Intermediate

Eric D. Boyd

Founder and CEO

responsiveX

The introduction of IaaS and stateful Virtual Machines in Windows Azure has expanded the workloads that fit in Windows Azure. One of the most common workloads is SQL Server. In this session, you will learn how to get started with SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Next, Eric will show you how to architect your SQL Server VMs to be highly available and fault tolerant in Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Then you will learn how to optimize and tune the performance of SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Finally, Eric will walk through some tips and things to consider like database migrations, security, management and when to use SQL Server over Windows Azure SQL Database.

You will learn:

• How to get started with SQL Server in Windows Azure Virtual Machines
• How to architect your environment for high availability and performance
• Guidance and lessons learned when running SQL Server in a Windows Azure VM