Learn what options you need to consider for a successful deployment of a big data cluster and what are the end to end steps of a BDC deployment workflow. To learn more, check out our documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/sql/big-data-cluster/deployment-guidance?view=sql-server-ver15?WT.mc_id=dataexposed-c9-niner. Find out more on deploying Big Data Clusters:https://aka.ms/bdc-deploy?WT.mc_id=dataexposed-c9-ninerhttps://aka.ms/bdc-deploy-quickstart?WT.mc_id=dataexposed-c9-niner More on BDCs:https://aka.ms/bdc-docs?WT.mc_id=dataexposed-c9-ninerhttps://aka.ms/bdc-samples?WT.mc_id=dataexposed-c9-ninerhttps://aka.ms/sqlworkshops?WT.mc_id=dataexposed-c9-niner

HDFS Tiering is Microsoft's latest contribution to the Apache HDFS open source project. In this video, you will learn how to use the HDFS tiering feature in SQL Server big data clusters, to seamlessly get access to your remote HDFS compatible storages for querying and analysis. To learn more, check out our documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/sql/big-data-cluster/hdfs-tiering?view=sql-server-ver15&WT.mc_id=dataexposed-c9-niner.

Listen to Microsoft's CTO of Azure, Mark Russinovich talk about intelligent cloud, intelligent edge. Mark explains how we're building for edge scenarios with investments like Azure SQL Database Edge, and how we were able to architect Azure SQL Database Hyperscale. Stay until the end for a sneak peek at the investments we're making in the future of databases. More resources:Azure SQL Database EdgeAzure SQL Database Hyperscale

SQL Server 2019 is the latest version of the versatile and venerable SQL Server. This latest version continues to redefine SQL Server from a traditional relational database system to a data platform for every data scenario from OLTP to DW to now big data and analytics. In this video, we'll give you a quick overview of all the new things in SQL Server 2019 and introduce all of the other videos in this series that dive into the details.

Listen to Microsoft's CTO of Azure, Mark Russinovich, on the history and future of databases in Azure. Mark touches on Azure SQL Databases, Cosmos DB, and even blockchain databases. More resources: Introduction to Blockchain from Mark Russinovich.

Come see how easy it is to restore an existing SQL Database to Azure SQL Managed Instance. More information: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-managed-instance.

In this video, Jeroen ter Heerdt shows how to restore a database to Azure SQL from a BACPAC file. Read more about importing an Azure SQL Database from BACPAC.

Currently, Azure SQL Database has ML Services with R available in preview. In this video, Anna Hoffman gives a brief overview of how you can use an open source package called sqlmlutils to easily connect and add/remove packages to Azure SQL Database. You can find a full example of using R, sqlmlutils, and revoscale in this GitHub repository.

In this video, we will talk how Azure SQL VM service helps migrating and modernizing of SQL workloads. We will explain and demo the benefits of the new SQL VM Resource Providers for self-installed SQL Server on Azure IaaS. More Info Blogs:Benefit from Resource Provider registration when self-installing SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machine Beat SQL Server 2008/R2 End of Support by moving to Azure VM for three years of free security update Register with SQL VM RP and Detailed FAQ:Register a SQL Server virtual machine in Azure with the SQL VM resource provider SQL IaaS extension modes:Automate management tasks on Azure virtual machines by using the SQL Server IaaS Agent Extension Change License Type for SQL VM:Change the license model for a SQL Server virtual machine in Azure In-place edition update for SQL VM:Perform an in-place upgrade of a SQL Server edition on an Azure VM

Once you're ready to switch a workload over to the serverless model, it is very easy to do. Watch Anna Thomas switch over a database she uses for demos to the serverless compute tier in this quick video. Learn more about Azure SQL Database Serverless:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/sql-database/sql-database-serverless?WT.mc_id=dataexposed-c9-niner Video about Serverless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ykwUOfEPoU.