Moving on up, to the Azure cloud, with a PostgreSQL database in the sky

This is an IN PERSON-only meeting.

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!

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