I’m excited to return to London for SQLBits again this year!

I’ve written about why SQLBits is my favorite conference, and it’s hard to believe it’s been over a decade since I wrote that post. I still feel the same way about Bits – it’s fun, different, and unafraid to run big experiments.

This year, they’re running a BIG experiment: the conference runs Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. You’re used to pre-conference and post-conference all-day workshops running before or after the conference, but that’s not how it goes this year. This year, the workshops are during the conference!

My workshop is all day Thursday. That means if you choose to attend mine, you’re going to miss the Microsoft keynote (which is usually just marketing stuff anyway), and you’re going to miss the general sessions that run on Thursday. I know that’s going to be a tough choice for folks – you’re going to have fear of missing out (FOMO) no matter what you choose.

Unfortunately, my workshop sold out as soon as registration opened – before I could even get a blog post out – but they’re running a waitlist. Register for the conference, use coupon code ozar102025 to save 10% on your registration, and after you register, email contactus@sqlbits.com with the email address you used for registration, and tell them that you want to join the waitlist for my session. They’re looking at adding my workshop on another day – and if they do, the space will instantly get sold out to the people on the waitlist.

Thursday Workshop:
Faster, Cheaper Cloud Databases

You’re managing databases that live in cloud whether it be AWS, Azure, and Google, and you’re getting a lot of questions about slow performance and crazy costs. Your users want everything faster and cheaper, and you’re not finding good answers.

Join me, Brent Ozar, for a day of real-time demos, honest war stories, and practical fixes. I’ll show how I use the First Responder Kit to assess the bottleneck, mitigate as much as I can with index and query tuning, and then write up a business case for management for better future budgeting.

Throughout the day, I’ll include real-life stories from my cloud clients, with names changed to protect the innocent. I’ll explain what worked, what didn’t, and what went up in expensive flames.

I’ll be using different flavours of SQL from across the clouds like Azure SQL DB Managed Instance and Amazon RDS SQL Server to highlight how each has nuances but also lots of similarities

You’ll learn:

• How Brent uses the First Responder Kit to assess a cloud SQL Server’s wait types
• Why each cloud vendor’s VM quirks make performance tuning tricky, and how to adapt
• How to fix blocking, logging, and CPU issues when the hardware isn’t yours
• How to write a persuasive performance report for management to fairly lay out where the problem is, and what steps to take next

By the end of the day, you’ll be armed with real-world techniques for keeping your cloud databases faster, cheaper, and more future-proof.

Space is limited, and you can register here. See you in London!