During this immersive, guided and collaborative lab experience, you’ll explore best practices for migrating and modernising applications and databases to Azure and for utilising Azure Arc, Azure SQL and open-source databases on Azure. You’ll also see how to modernise cloud environments with analytics using Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Who should attend:
Architects
Database administrators
Developers
IT professionals
Technical level:
This is an intermediate-level course. Attendees should be able to credibly discuss, offer perspective and integrate technology from minimal practical experience.
Not sure if this workshop is right for you? To better understand the technical depth of the content that will be presented, check out this sample lab.
After completing this workshop, you will be able to:
Identify the benefits and best practices for applying fully managed cloud database services to your business.
Extend your knowledge and accelerate progress in your journey to the cloud.
Put your new skills to work to make an impact in this deep dive into migration and modernisation.
Database Modernisation | Thursday 15 June 2023 (09:30 - 14:30 BST)
Database Modernisation | Thursday 15 June 2023 (09:30 - 14:30 BST)
Level 200 | Intermediate
Join us to explore the value and process of migrating apps and databases to Azure. We’ll be using SQL Database, SQL Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and other Azure data modernisation services and techniques.
- Data migration overview
- Use advanced data-migration tools and frameworks
- Hands-on lab: Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
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Your hosts & presenters.
Tom Bowling
Senior Data Scientist
Ascent
As a Senior Data Scientist at Ascent, Tom applies his statistical experience to help customers solve business problems with data. A Statistician by training, Tom pairs deep mathematical capability with programming expertise to understand and address business challenges. He has extensive experience of SAS and tools like R and Python and has been involved in many migrations to open source.
Xinye Li
Head of Data Science & BI
Ascent
Heading up our Data Science team at Ascent, Xinye’s applies his technical expertise, problem-solving skills and logic to deliver value to customers.
With degrees in physics/astronomy and economics, Xinye started his career in the marketing effectiveness world, spending time in both agency and in-house data teams across myriad industries including telecom, finance and retail.
Enjoying his role supporting people and projects, he also likes getting his hands dirty coding and designing technical solutions. Xinye is a strong champion of open source and data science career development, with a relentless drive for delivering business value with data.
Christina Halliday
Customer Relationship Manager
Ascent
Christina has a deep passion for education and understands the many challenges involved with building effective data science teams. She works with organisations to build and enhance analytic skillsets, helping to accelerate innovation and confidence in their data initiatives. Christina is well-known across our data science community and as a master communicator, establishes meaningful relationships at an individual, team and organisation level – helping them to successfully upskill their data analytics functions in the use of R and Python.
Jon Stafford
Principal Data Consultant
Ascent
Jon helps businesses drive more value from their data by ensuring they use the right information, in the right way, for the right reasons.
With over 16 years’ experience in data strategy and business intelligence, Jon has worked with organisations of all sizes to better align their data approach and capabilities with business goals and objectives.
Jon believes that data and technology should always makes peoples’ lives easier, and that this philosophy should be at the heart of every organisation’s data vision.
