September Monthly CASSUG Meeting

Greetings, data enthusiasts!

Our September meeting is scheduled for Monday, September 9th, at 5:30 pm! We will meet in person at: Rensselaer Chamber of Commerce, 90 4th Street, Troy, NY.

Please RSVP at https://www.meetup.com/capital-area-sql-server-user-group/events/298352705/ if you are attending, so we can purchase an appropriate amount of food for everyone. Food will be ordered from Mi Casa in Troy. For this meeting, we are welcoming back John Miner to join us from the Rhode Island area. Thank you John for taking the drive out to the Capital Region to be with us (again!)

Our meeting schedule is as follows:

• 5:30 PM: Food, soft drinks, and networking
• 6:15 PM: Chapter news and announcements
• 6:30 PM: Presentation

We usually wrap up between 7:30 PM and 8:00 PM.

This month, John Miner is presenting a great topic that spans multiple data platforms: "Moving on up, to the Azure cloud, with a PostgreSQL database in the sky":

Many companies are looking to reduce licensing costs by moving databases currently written for SQL Server to PostgreSQL. What are the technical pitfalls you might encounter when moving not only the database schema but re-factoring the code?

In this presentation, we will show how recreating the existing database schema in PostgreSQL is quite easy and migrating the data from MS SQL Server to PostgreSQL is not hard. However, the old saying of “garbage in equals garbage out” applies to both views and stored code.

These two types of pre-compiled code will challenge the developer to use their skills to decipher code written years ago and convert it to modern day code that is performant, uses intermediate steps for debugging and uses logging for run time metrics.

In short, this presentation is a must for database developers that are tasked with moving and modernizing older SQL Server databases to PostgreSQL!