I’m coming to London this month for SQLBits, and my Thursday workshop “Faster, Cheaper Cloud Databases” workshop sold out right away when it was announced. There’s been a waitlist for months.

The short story: they added more capacity to my room! If you’re already registered, email contactus@sqlbits.com to join my Thursday workshop. If you haven’t registered for Bits yet, you can start a new registration here, use coupon code ozar102025 to save 10% on your registration.

The long story: my workshop is on Thursday, the same day as the Microsoft keynote. After the Microsoft keynote finishes, I’m taking over the auditorium, woohoo! That does mean that my session will run later, like 10:20-18:20. I don’t want it to go too late, so I’m also giving attendees access to a recorded version of the session, too, along with a full Recorded Class Season Pass Fundamentals.

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.

If you’re already registered for Bits, email contactus@sqlbits.com to add my workshop to your schedule. If you haven’t registered for Bits yet, you can start a new registration here, use coupon code ozar102025 to save 10% on your registration.