From SQL Server to Cosmos DB in 75-Minutes

Martin Catherall

Knowing data is crucial when it comes to design, and SQL Professionals have this skill refined.

But knowing implementation detail is also important. While there are similarities between these two technologies, there are also some large differences – some of which may surprise the SQL Professional. Sometimes an implementation oversight can bite you hard at the wrong time – and at a time when correcting that oversight might be costly and problematic. Find out why a Primary Key is not what you think, tables are not equal to containers, and a few other details that might surprise you.

If you’re a SQL Server professional, you may well look at Cosmos DB and think that things work the same. This would be a mistake and has caught many a-SQL-Professional out, including myself. You’ll be surprised that some of the concepts that you’ve taken for granted throughout your career are now a little different.

Come along to this session and learn from the many mistakes that others have made and ease your journey into the world of NoSQL, schema-on-read, and multi-region writes. This session will help anybody with SQL Server knowledge to compare the relational database to the NoSQL models available in Cosmos DB.