{"id":7501,"date":"2015-04-17T12:40:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T12:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craftydba.com\/?p=7501"},"modified":"2016-04-20T01:35:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T01:35:46","slug":"boston-sql-saturday-364","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/?p=7501","title":{"rendered":"Boston &#8211; SQL Saturday #364"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little road trip to <a href = \"http:\/\/www.offices.net\/city-slogans.htm#B\">bean town<\/a> is planned this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I am really honored to have the opportunity to present at SQL Saturday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlsaturday.com\/364\/sessions\/details.aspx?sid=15518\">#364<\/a> in Boston.  It will be a good time to meet old friends and make new ones.  <\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s event has an all star line up of MVP&#8217;s who are talking at this free event on April 18th, 2015.  <\/p>\n<p>If that is not enough excitement, the 119th <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baa.org\/races\/boston-marathon\/marathon-weekend\/marathon-monday.aspx\">Boston Marathon<\/a> is gearing up for Monday&#8217;s race and the <a href=\"http:\/\/baltimore.orioles.mlb.com\/schedule\/index.jsp?c_id=bal#y=2015&amp;m=4&amp;calendar=DEFAULT\">Red Sox<\/a> are playing the Orioles until Monday.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you have time to stop by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston\">bean town<\/a> and have some fun. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000\">Topic:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Table partitioning for Azure SQL Databases<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000\">Abstract:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>   The newest version of Azure SQL Database V12 is currently in preview.<br \/>\n   Table partitioning has been added to this offering to replace Azure federations.<br \/>\n   Do you know how to effectively leverage this new feature for data warehousing?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000\">Coverage:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>   1 &#8211; Various editions of Azure SQL database.<br \/>\n   2 &#8211; How Service objective relates to performance.<br \/>\n   3 &#8211; Difference between horizontal and vertical partitioning.<br \/>\n   3 &#8211; Table \/ Index partitioning in Azure SQL database.<br \/>\n   4 &#8211; A review of MERGE, SPLIT and SWITCH statements.<br \/>\n   5 &#8211; Implementing a sliding window.<br \/>\n   6 &#8211; Introduction to data compression.<br \/>\n   7 &#8211; Difference between ROW and PAGE compression.<br \/>\n   8 &#8211; Adding compression to partitions to reduce space.<br \/>\n   9 &#8211; Review findings from performance tests.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a place holder for the slide deck.  I will update later after the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/AZPART.zip\">slide deck<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little road trip to bean town is planned this weekend. I am really honored to have the opportunity to present at SQL Saturday #364 in Boston. It will be a good time to meet old friends and make new ones. This year&#8217;s event has an all star line up of MVP&#8217;s who are talking at this free event on April 18th, 2015. If that is not enough excitement, the 119th Boston Marathon is gearing up for Monday&#8217;s race and the Red Sox are playing the Orioles until Monday. I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[1083],"class_list":["post-7501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pres","tag-john-f-miner-iii--pass--presentation--sql-saturday--sql-sat-364--boston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}