Cosmos DB for the SQL Server Professional - Martin Catherall

Knowing data is crucial when it comes to design - and SQL Professionals have this skill refined. But knowing implementation details is also important.

While there are similarities between these two technologies, there are also some large differences – some of which may surprise the SQL Professional.

Sometimes an implementation oversight can bite you hard at the wrong time - and at a time when correcting that oversight might be costly and problematic.

Come along to this session and find out why a Primary Key is not what you think, tables are not equal to containers and a few other details that might surprise you.

This session will help anybody with SQL Server knowledge to compare the relational database to the NoSQL models available in Cosmos DB.

This session was first presented in 2019 and has seen various iterations and improvements over the years. A version was presented at the 2020 PASS summit.

About the Speaker:
Martin has worked with Microsoft technologies, predominantly SQL Server, for close to 20 years Over recent years his journey has become more and more cloud centric - giving him the opportunity to compare and contrast various technologies.

He has presented at many SQL Saturday's, User Groups and Conferences around the world – both in-person and virtually. He founded the PASS SQL user group in Christchurch, New Zealand and spent many years on the team that created SQL Saturday South Island. He served as a PASS Regional Mentor in the APAC region for a number of years and is currently a co-organiser of Data Platform Down Under.

When not up to his eyeballs in the Data Platform trenches, he enjoys having fun with his family.