Azure Data Academy

Welcome to the Azure Data Academy.

The Azure Data Academy is a series of presentations and hands-on material designed to upskill partners on data modernization in Microsoft Azure. Topics include MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Maria DB, Cosmos DB, and other topics related to data modernization. We’ll look at features, migration strategies, and roadmap.

Sessions

Database expert Buck Woody describes the security issues we face when publishing a database and how we can protect ourselves. more »
SQL Server IaaS Extensions
In this session, we'll look at SQL Server IaaS Extensions. The SQL Server IaaS extensions allows for integration with the Azure portal and provides management capabilities for licensing, compliance, patching, and backups. more »
This session, by the MySQL team at Microsoft, explores the latest features, tools, and strategies for successful migrations. Whether you are looking to migrate a mission critical application from on-premises or from another cloud, we'll look at ways to approach migration for a variety of scenarios from offline to near-zero downtime requirements. See updated info on using the new MySQL Replicate Changes now available in preview. more »
Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server is a fully managed MySQL database offering that provides flexible scalability and allows for granular control over database management and configuration settings. In this session, delivered by the MySQL team at Microsoft, we’ll explore the different deployment options to best fit your devops environment, primarily focusing on Terraform by HashiCorp, and discussing high level differences with CLI, ARM, and Bicep. more »
Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server is a fully managed MySQL database offering that provides flexible scalability and allows for granular control over database management and configuration settings. This session, delivered by Avnish Rastogi from the MySQL Flexible Server team, will explore the high availability and disaster recovery options available to Azure SQL Database for MySQL Flexible Server, ensuring the right level of business continuity that meets your objectives. We’ll discuss zone availability, backups, and scaling considerations. more »
Avnish Rastogi from the Azure Database for MySQL engineering team joins us in this session to introduce Azure Database for MySQL. Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server is a fully managed MySQL database offering that provides flexible scalability and allows for granular control over database management and configuration settings. The flexible server architecture has several compute tiers to fit different workload patterns, with configurable high availability to suit business continuity needs. more »
In this session, Gennady Kostinsky expands on his introduction to Azure Database for PostgreSQL with a look at how to implement extensions in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Extensions in PostgreSQL enable additional functionality based on the needs of your application. more »
Our Azure Data Academy series will demonstrate the latest data-centric technologies on Microsoft Azure. In this session, Gennady Kostinsky introduces Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a fully managed PaaS service allowing you to focus on application innovation, not database management. The Flexible Server architecture provides single-zone or zone-redundant high availability to suit application needs. more »

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