Review of the webinar: “Top 4 Data Technology Trends in 2020” by the following presenters.
Presenters:
- Kevin Kline, Principal Program Manager, SentryOne
- Dustin Dorsey, Director of Data Management, LifePoint Health
- Hamish Watson, Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Nomad8
- Anthony E. Nocentino, Senior Technical Fellow, Centino Systems
- Rob Sewell, Director / Founder, Sewells Consulting Limited
In their words, “Discuss a quick recap of last year’s top trends and new developments… ”
- Notebooks
- Cost containment as part of the DBA portfolio
- DevOps expansion into DataOps and AIOps
- Kubernetes growing prominence in the Microsoft data platform
Here’s a brief list of what the webinar covered:
Cost containment as part of the DBA portfolio
- Determine cost from on-prem workloads to the cloud
- DTU Calculator is a useful tool
- Azure Cost Management allows you to do cost analysis, budgets and alerts
Kubernetes
- Reasons to use
- Speed and consistency of deployment
- Absorb changes quickly, scale and recovery quickly
- New skills need to be learned
- Linux OS administration
- Performance monitoring and Logging
- Container application development and Code based deployments
- Whats on the horizon
- Kubernetes based SQL Server deployments
- Big Data Clusters and Azure Arc Data Services
DevOps
- The first rule of DevOps ….never say the word DevOps
- Whats on the horizon
- AI used for predictive analysis
- Containers for all the things
- Serverless use will grow
- The cloud is THE platform
- More security (please!)
Azure Data Studio (ADS)
- Connects to SQL Server anywhere
- SQL Notebooks is a document thay contain text, code, images and query results
- Nice demo of some features
Finally watch for the slide with several acronyms for DBA:
- Don’t bother asking
- Don’t beg for access
- Deaf but astute
- Default blame acceptor
- Dumb but adorable
- Deep Brain activity
- Driven by aggression
- Database blamed always
- Do be accurate
- Don’t be assertive
- Don’t be afraid
- Determined best always
Even as a Retired DBA, I’m interested in what SQL Server gurus have been working on the past year and in 2020. I give the webinar “Top 4 Data Technology Trends in 2020” as well as all 5 presenters a thumbs up. Right?
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