Improving SQL Server Development When There's No DBA

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The Microsoft Data Platform is being developed and released at a speed and frequency like never before. Each release brings hundreds of new updates and features that could improve the data tier of your application, often with minimal changes to your existing queries or database schema. However, it can be nearly impossible to keep up, especially when there's no dedicated DBA on your team. In this session we'll talk about 5 things a developer or part-time DBA can do to improve application performance with just a few changes and how to measure the impact of your work. Starting with some tricks that will work as far back as SQL Server 2008, we'll touch on each release through 2017, demonstrating something that was added or changed to help improve your database layer. If you have never moved beyond ORMs or basic CRUD in SQL Server, come learn how to think more like the database and enjoy working with your data again!