SQL Friday #78 Azure SQL Journey: The Daily Routine of a Cloud DBA

In this session you will learn the best practices, tips and tricks on how to successfully use Azure SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance on production environments and how the DBA job changed versus administrating SQL Server.
You will learn how to monitor and improve Azure SQL Database query performance.
It will cover how to use Query Store, Extended Events, DMVs and Azure Monitor SQL Insights to help monitoring and improving query response times when running their databases in the Microsoft Azure cloud.
These learnings are fruit of Microsoft CSS support cases, and customer field engagements. This session includes several demos.

About Jose Manuel Jurado Diaz
José Manuel Jurado currently works as SQL Escalation Engineer and Subject Matter Expert in Azure SQL Database at Microsoft Spain. With over 15+ years of experience in SQL Server environments (administration and database development), he is a speaker for internal events at Microsoft and for public events as SQL Saturday, SQL Nexus, TechReady, DotNetConference and Azure BootCamp. In the past, he worked as Project Manager for large Global Retail Company for more than 10 years developing projects using different Microsoft Technologies.

About Roberto Cavalcanti
Roberto Cavalcanti is a Cloud Solution Architect with the Microsoft Customer Architecture Team (CS CAT). He is a database specialist with 20+ years of experience developing, maintaining, and supporting database systems. His current strengths are on Azure Data services. Roberto has been a speaker in multiple events and has delivered trainings in several countries around the globe. Roberto is based in Dallas, Texas, USA.