It’s a work day, and you’re in front of your monitor battling a vicious query. You’ve already tuned a query or two in your life and have some tricks up your sleeve, but nothing seems to get this query down to a reasonable time and allow you to drink that cup of coffee you want so bad. SQL Server 2016 adds a few impressive new features that might help you with that. During the session, we will look at the different performance tuning aspects the new features enhance: Execution plan history and enforcement using the Query Store, live query execution visualization, DMV enhancements, new query hints, and more. Join this session to see how SQL Server 2016 makes performance tuning easier and more efficient.

SQL Server 2016 Features for Performance Tuning Lovers by Matan Yungman

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The pros and cons of four typical configurations of AlwaysOn Availability Groups; stand-alone instances, fail-over cluster instances, multi-subnet, and a hybrid approach that I call disaster-recovery-on-the-cheap. We also cover their exclusive features such as read-only routing and backup off-loading. In addition, you’ll learn how to use the Availability Group Listener correctly and why you should be using Windows Server 2012 R2 or above, along with some of my own personal lessons learned.

Architecting Availability Groups by Derik Hammer

This session will provide an overview of how SQL injection works and how to write injection-proof queries through a series of T-SQL demos. We’ll also take a look at why some commonly used techniques aren’t as secure as many people think.

If you ever write or maintain dynamic SQL queries, or work with developers who do, then this session is for you.

SQL Injection Attacks: Is Your Data Secure? by Bert Wagner

You’ve just been given a server that is having problems and you need to diagnose it quickly. This session will take you through designing your own toolkit to help you quickly diagnose a wide array of problems. We will walk through scripts that will help you pinpoint various issues quickly and efficiently. This session will take you through; What’s on fire? – These scripts will help you diagnose what’s happening right now Specs – What hardware are you dealing with here (you’ll need to know this to make the appropriate decisions)? Settings – are the most important settings correct for your workload? Bottlenecks – We’ll see if there are any areas of the system that are throttling us. By the end of this session, you should have the knowledge of what you need to do in order to start on your own kit. This kit is designed to be your lifeline to fix servers quickly and get them working. All code we’ll go through is either provided as part of this presentation or are open source/community tools.

Making Your Emergency Toolkit by Rich Benner

There are tools available from Microsoft, as well as from a number of third-party vendors, to ease the process of integrating database unit testing into your development environments and your continuous delivery pipeline.
This session is an attempt to get back to basics - with the open source tSQLt framework - and address questions like:
Why is database unit testing important? Why is database unit testing difficult? What do I need to test? What do I not need to test? What is a "good" unit test?

Effective Unit Testing for SQL Server by Gavin Campbell

Do you work for an institution that fears its DBAs could go rogue on their production databases? Do you want to revoke continuous sysadmin permissions from your DBA team in an attempt to avoid being the next WikiLeak? Do you have concerns that the DBA team is querying sensitive databases? Then you need Uptight Database Security. Come to this session to learn how to deploy a configurable permission model that provides on-demand access to SQL Server databases. This model allows DBAs to do routine work without sysadmin, and elevate permissions to sysadmin only during production emergencies or disaster recovery scenarios. Attendees will leave this session with the fundamental knowledge and scripts to implement a low hassle solution that provides DBAs the minimum necessary access required to maintain a production database server.

SQL Server 2016 Features for Performance Tuning Lovers by Matan Yungman

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