{"id":27309,"date":"2019-05-21T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/?p=27309"},"modified":"2024-01-29T11:45:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T19:45:01","slug":"a-sql-server-tale-of-two-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/2019\/05\/21\/a-sql-server-tale-of-two-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"A SQL Server tale of two cities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
No one disputes that data is critical to the lifeblood of business, applications, and the computer industry. SQL Server sits at the forefront of any discussion about data these days. So it\u2019s no coincidence that SQL Server is seen, heard, and felt at major industry events. As a leader in the Azure Data SQL Server team, I found myself speaking and presenting at two big recent events with two of our major partners DELL and Red Hat. First, at Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas and then the next week at the Red Hat Summit in Boston. While each event has its own focus, we were able to present how SQL Server has become a modern data platform across these two audiences, giving our customers choice with compatibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is the first time the SQL Server engineering team has presented and met with customers at Dell Technologies World. What was once a small event in Austin, Texas years ago, Dell Technologies World has grown to 15,000 attendees with everything from servers, storage, hybrid, IoT Edge, data, machine learning, and more. Dell is an important partner for Microsoft and the SQL Server team. Dell servers have always been a popular choice to run SQL Server workloads, including large-scale enterprise applications. Given many of these customers run SQL Server on Windows Server, showcasing the new capabilities of SQL Server 2019 with Windows Server 2019 makes sense. In fact, Windows Server 2008\/R2 and SQL Server 2008\/R2 are both hitting their end of support cycles in January 2020 and July 2019 respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had the honor of presenting with Jeff Woolsey on this topic. Jeff talked about some great migration tools and options for using Windows Admin Center<\/a> and the power of Azure Stack HCI<\/a> with Windows Server 2019. I talked about the incredible new features of SQL Server 2019<\/a> including big data clusters, data virtualization, intelligent query processing, and in-memory database. I also described tools for migration including Azure Site Recovery, Data Migration Assistant, Database Experimentation Assistant, and Query Tuning Assistant. Download a version of our presentation, Modernizing Your Windows Server & SQL Server Data Center Workloads<\/a>, to learn more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We also had the incredible opportunity to be interviewed at theCube<\/a> where we both talked about Windows Server 2019, SQL Server 2019, and the Dell partnership. theCube has a huge following. Watch our interview below to learn more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n