Data Technology Trends in 2020

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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