SQL Saturday Boston 2025

This is a free event for the tech community organized by SQLSatuday and New England SQL Server User Group (NESQL)

See the event's schedule and details at https://tinyurl.com/SQLSaturdayBoston2025.

We encourage you to register early. If your plans change, please cancel your registration so that others can attend.

You're managing databases that live in AWS, Azure, and Google, and you're getting a lot of questions about slow performance and crazy costs. Your users want everything faster and cheaper, and you're not finding good answers.
Join me, Brent Ozar, for a day of real-time demos, honest war stories, and practical fixes. I'll tackle an Azure SQL DB Managed Instance in the morning, and then an Amazon RDS SQL Server in the afternoon. I'll show how I use the First Responder Kit to assess the bottleneck, mitigate as much as I can with index and query tuning, and then write up a business case for management for better future budgeting.
Throughout the day, I'll include real-life stories from my cloud clients, with names changed to protect the innocent. I'll explain what worked, what didn't, and what went up in expensive flames.
You'll learn:
* How Brent uses the First Responder Kit to assess a cloud SQL Server's wait types
* Why each cloud vendor's VM quirks make performance tuning tricky, and how to adapt
* How to fix blocking, logging, and CPU issues when the hardware isn't yours
* How to write a persuasive performance report for management to fairly lay out where the problem is, and what steps to take next
By the end of the day, you'll be armed with real-world techniques for keeping your cloud databases faster, cheaper, and more future-proof.

Brent Ozar makes Microsoft SQL Server go faster. He's been working with SQL Server since the late 1990s, and his clients have included Google, Amazon, Stack Overflow, and many other companies you'd love to work with. He loves teaching, travel, and laughing, and lives in Las Vegas.

The detailed schedule is coming soon: https://tinyurl.com/SQLSaturdayBoston2025

8:00 AM: Check-in is open. Enjoy coffee, tea, and pastry while you visit with our great sponsors and socialize with your peers.

12:10 PM: Lunch break. Lunch and the afternoon snack are provided

5:00 PM: End of Day Gathering & Raffles

The food and beverages fee pays for breakfast pastries, lunch, an afternoon snack, coffee, tea, and sodas.

There will be vegetarian and vegan options available.

For other dietary preferences or if you need a stipend to cover food expenses, please send us an email at [email protected]

We work with local family-owned businesses that provide high-quality food. The food will be individually packed. All unused food items will be donated to a local community of people in need.

Only registered users will be allowed to enter the Microsoft facility. Attendees must present a government-issued ID to enter Microsoft facilities.

Parking is free. The visitor parking lot is adjacent to the building.

The presentation rooms are close by, so you won't have to spend much time moving from room to room.

First Timers

Going to a new event can be intimidating, we get it. We try hard to make everyone feel welcome! Just check in between 8 and 9 am, get your badge and raffle tickets, visit the sponsors, get some coffee, then pick a session and go. If the session is full or just not quite what you wanted, you may quietly leave the room and drop into one of the other concurrent ones.

Tell/Bring a Colleague

If you are attending why not take a minute to let those you work with know about the event and invite them to go with you? Always more fun to go as a team and shared learning is a great way to bring ideas back to the office.

Sponsors

We also have great sponsors who help us offset the costs of putting together this event and who might contact you by email in the future. Visit with them to learn about what they do and maybe win a prize at the end of the day.

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