How High Can We Scale SQL Server?

The February meeting for the Ohio North Database Training user group will be on Tuesday, February 2, 2021. This will be a virtual event and our featured speaker will be Michael Swart, a Data Platform community member from Ontario, Canada who has previously spoken at our Cleveland SQLSaturday events.

The online meeting will start at 5PM EST with a social hour. Feel free to join us then to catch up and meet other members of the group! Updates and announcements will commence at 6PM EST, with Michael’s session starting after that.

The title for Michael’s session is How High Can We Scale SQL Server? – please see the abstract below for more details.

We hope to see you there!

Session Abstract

The world of online learning has been very, very busy in the past year. At my company D2L, we host websites for schools. We just experienced our busiest semester start ever pushing our infrastructure further than we’ve ever pushed it. I’d like to share my own experiences. I’ll describe how busy we got and the lessons we learned, both the ones we anticipated and the ones that took us by surprise.

And what about the future? What practical strategies are we adopting to evolve our database architecture to handle even more growth? I’d like to share the way we understand our scaling challenges and how we plan to tackle them.

Speaker Bio

Michael Swart is a passionate database developer and blogger specializing in SQL Server. He’s a Principal Software Developer at D2L and has the most fun when troubleshooting challenging client issues.

You can find Michael on Twitter (@MJSwart), and read more on his excellent blog.