Azure Data Academy

Welcome to the Azure Data Academy

The Azure Data Academy is a series of presentations and hands-on material designed to upskill partners on data modernization in Microsoft Azure. Topics will include MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Maria DB, Cosmos DB, and other topics related to data modernization. We’ll look at features, migration strategies, and roadmap.

Live Schedule

For all sessions in this series, please our tech intensity page here

A list of all live Azure Partner Tech Talks is available here.

Our current schedule:

Note: Our July 14 Roadmap and Q&A Session will be live, and will not be recorded. An NDA is required, so please register with your Partner email address.

Azure Database for MySQL - Deployment with Terraform, ARM, Bicep

June 28, 2022

Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server is a fully managed MySQL database offering that provides flexible scalability and allows for granular control over database management and configuration settings. In this session, delivered by the MySQL team at Microsoft, we’ll explore the different deployment options to best fit your devops environment, primarily focusing on Terraform by HashiCorp, and discussing high level differences with CLI, ARM, and Bicep.

Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server Deployment with Terraform, ARM, Bicep

Azure Database for MySQL HA/DR

June 23, 2022

Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server is a fully managed MySQL database offering that provides flexible scalability and allows for granular control over database management and configuration settings. This session, delivered by Avnish Rastogi from the MySQL Flexible Server team, will explore the high availability and disaster recovery options available to Azure SQL Database for MySQL Flexible Server, ensuring the right level of business continuity that meets your objectives. We’ll discuss zone availability, backups, and scaling considerations.

Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server HADR

Azure Database for MySQL Overview

May 12, 2022

Avnish Rastogi from the Azure Database for MySQL engineering team joins us in this session to introduce Azure Database for MySQL. Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server is a fully managed MySQL database offering that provides flexible scalability and allows for granular control over database management and configuration settings. The flexible server architecture has several compute tiers to fit different workload patterns, with configurable high availability to suit business continuity needs.

Introduction to Azure Database for MySQL Flexible Server

PostgreSQL Extensions in Azure Database for PostgreSQL

May 10, 2022

In this session, Gennady Kostinsky expands on his introduction to Azure Database for PostgreSQL with a look at how to implement extensions in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Extensions in PostgreSQL enable additional functionality based on the needs of your application.

Introduction to Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server

Introduction to Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server

April 27, 2022

Our Azure Data Academy series will demonstrate the latest data-centric technologies on Microsoft Azure. In this session, Gennady Kostinsky introduces Azure Database for PostgreSQL, a fully managed PaaS service allowing you to focus on application innovation, not database management. The Flexible Server architecture provides single-zone or zone-redundant high availability to suit application needs.

Introduction to Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server

Feedback

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Contributions

We welcome contributors to this project. Please use the GitHub links near the upper right and consider submitting pull requests or filing issues as needed.