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]]>How do you design and implement a safe and successful migration from an older version of SQL Server to SQL Server 2017 with no data loss and virtually no downtime? What if you have a limited hardware budget for the upgrade effort and you are worried about the core-based licensing in SQL Server 2017? How can you choose your hardware wisely in light of the new licensing model? How can you convince your organization that the time is right to upgrade to SQL Server 2017? This session will cover several different methods for migrating your data to SQL Server 2017 while meeting these objectives and minimizing your hardware and licensing costs.
I will also be covering some SQL Server 2019 considerations in this session.
This is a fun session that I really enjoy presenting. I think this subject is especially relevant with the upcoming end of extended support of SQL Server 2008/SQL Server 2008 R2 and end of mainstream support for SQL Server 2014, which both happen on July 9, 2019.
I honestly believe that CY 2019 is going to be an ideal time for many organizations to migrate from legacy versions of SQL Server (SQL Server 2014 and older) to a modern version of SQL Server (SQL Server 2016 and newer).
This is because you will have the opportunity to upgrade your entire data platform stack with significant new releases, including new processor families from Intel and AMD, wider availability of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory, a new server operating system release (Windows Server 2019), and a new SQL Server release (SQL Server 2019).
BTW, if you are going to a Tuesday pre-con session at PASS, you should strongly consider Kimberly’s Query Performance Problems from Estimates, Statistics, Heuristics, and Cardinality. I have more information about why this session will be a great choice here.
You can register for the PASS Summit 2018 here.
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]]>Migrating to SQL Server 2017
How do you design and implement a safe and successful migration from an older version of SQL Server to SQL Server 2017 with no data loss and virtually no downtime? What if you have a limited hardware budget for the upgrade effort and you are worried about the core-based licensing in SQL Server 2017? How can you choose your hardware wisely in light of the new licensing model? How can you convince your organization that the time is right to upgrade to SQL Server 2017? This session will cover several different methods for migrating your data to SQL Server 2017 while meeting these objectives and minimizing your hardware and licensing costs.
This is a topic that I have presented and taught multiple times, and it is something I am quite passionate about. I think it is also increasingly relevant as SQL Server 2014 will be falling out of Mainstream support on July 9, 2019, and both SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 will be falling out of Extended Support on July 9, 2019. Next July is sort of a looming deadline for many organizations!
I am also going to be doing a preview version of this session in the first slot of the next 24 Hours of PASS Summit Preview event on June 12th, 2018.
Hopefully I will see you at both events!
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]]>In my honest opinion, the most valuable session for most database professionals who care about query performance is Kimberly Tripp’s Fixing Query Performance Problems from Estimates, Statistics, Heuristics, and Cardinality on Tuesday. Kimberly is the world-class master on this subject, as evidenced by her many blog posts, presentations, and Pluralsight courses.
Kimberly is a very talented and passionate presenter and teacher. Long before I worked for SQLskills (way back in 2006 when I was working at NewsGator), I had the chance to take the week-long predecessor class to the current IEPTO1: Immersion Event on Performance Tuning and Optimization – Part 1. That class was a life-changer for me, and it had a huge effect on my career.
Since then, I have seen how Kimberly presents and teaches many times over the years. I have learned so much from both her content and from her presentation and teaching style by watching her. Unlike some well-known presenters, she doesn’t use cute pictures or silly marketing gimmicks in her presentation content. She is not there to just “put on a show” for entertainment purposes.
She prepares very detailed, content-dense slides that are a very useful resource to keep and review long after the session is over. She also has the depth of knowledge and experience to actually improvise and modify her demonstrations in response to questions during a session. As any experienced presenter knows, that is a pretty big deal.
She actually understands what she is teaching at a very deep level, and she has the many years of teaching experience to explain it clearly to people with any level of experience. Despite the lack of cute pictures or costumes, she does her presentations in a very engaging manner because of her real passion for the subject.
Here are her relevant Pluralsight courses that I would recommend watching to prepare for this pre-conference session:
SQL Server: Optimizing Stored Procedure Performance
SQL Server: Optimizing Stored Procedure Performance – Part 2
SQL Server: Optimizing Ad Hoc Statement Performance
BTW, Kimberly did not put me up to writing this post. In fact, she might be a little embarrassed by all of this praise. She might even mock fire me on Twitter once she sees it. I just felt I needed to spread the word about this pre-conference session.
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