Surbhi Pokharna

Explore how to get peak performance from Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server. We cover compute tiers, storage tuning, autoscaling, connection management, and monitoring essentials to ensure your PostgreSQL workloads run reliably and efficiently at any scale.

Managing cloud spend is no longer just a finance concern, it’s a core responsibility for architects, DBAs, and engineering leads. In this session, we’ll explore practical and proven strategies to optimize data platform costs across Azure using Snowflake, SQL Server on Azure VMs, and Azure SQL Database Hyperscale.

Join me for an in-depth exploration of SQL Server 2022, Microsoft's latest advancement in relational database technology tailored for today's hybrid data environments.

Cloud databases bring a new set of performance and cost benefits. In this session, we’ll learn Snowflake architecture and basic concepts, what makes Snowflake ideal for large-scale data warehousing. We’ll begin with the concepts of PaaS and how that applies to databases in particular. We’ll see...

The IoT is here to give the power of things over to humans just in a SMART way. There are endless daily life examples: “Helmet Sensor ‘Calls Your Loved Ones’ in a Bike Crash”, “A location sensor aka ‘real-world search bar’ to easily find misplaced items, like keys and TV remotes” etc.

How many of you cross your fingers and hold your breath when a new upgrade or new code goes live in production? Well you can breathe now and relax your fingers because in SQL Server 2016 Microsoft released Query Store.