Brandon Leach

In a 24/7 world, minimizing downtime and protecting against total disaster is an absolute must. In this session, we will look at the various high availability and disaster recovery options available to protect our systems from the hordes of chaos.

Understanding how SQL Server organizes your data can seem like a daunting task. But we will make it fun by telling humorous stories from my past as we go through the concepts.

In this session we will take a look into one of the long awaited new features of SQL Server 2022 and unearth the good, the bad, and the ugly. We will look at how the feature works, when and why we would use it, and how to avoid getting ourselves into trouble with it.

Understanding how SQL Server organizes your data can seem like a daunting task. But we will make it fun by telling humorous stories from my past as we go through the concepts.

Achieving the highest levels of availability, increased compute capacity, and a phenomenal user experience due to low-latency access to customer applications are key drivers for going multi-Region. In this session, learn how Autodesk leveraged Amazon ECS, AWS Lambda, and OSS tooling such as Spinnaker to enable it to expand into new Regions with minimal operational overhead.

For most DBAs virtualization is no longer a matter of "If" but "When". This means it is critical for DBAs to understand how this technology works and how we can ensure we get the most performance and scalability out of it.