Justin Langford

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Justin works at Coeo, a Microsoft Gold Partner providing consulting services for upgrade, performance tuning, migration scalability and availability solutions for SQL Server and Azure data services.  Coeo also deliver 24x7 Dedicated Support services for mission critical SQL Server platforms and Azure data solutions.

Sessions

How to approach zero downtime database upgrades
How to approach zero downtime database upgrades
High Availability in SQL Server 2008
Database availability is important to every DBA and selecting the right solution to satisfy availability requirements can be a difficult choice. Attendees will be presented with an overview of each technology and complementary technologies enabling them to make better choices of availability solution.
Server consolidation with SQL Server
Planning and design considerations for running a SQL Server consolidation project.
Virtualising SQL Server
This session provides details on approaching a SQL Server virtualisation project.
Performance Troubleshooting made easy with PAL
If you've ever needed to review large Performance Monitor (PerfMon) logs and find problems quickly - you'll know how time consuming it can be to identify problems. Performance Analysis for Logs (PAL) is a great tool to quickly highlight performance problems - taking the leg-work out of PerfMon log analysis.
Notes from the field: High Performance storage for SQL Server
This session provides an overview of a recent customer engagement to investigate storage performance problems and evaluate potential solutions. The session include details on measuring performance of the existing storage solution, profiling SQL Server disk IO activity and tools to simulate load and evaluate performance.
Notes from the field: Cross-team Performance Troubleshooting
This session will be presented jointly by Justin Langford and Gavin Payne . The focus of the session is the approach to a cross-team Performance Troubleshooting engagement where multiple stakeholders were involved.
SQL Server 2012 TAP: Lessons learned
Coeo worked with Microsoft and European tour operator Sundio Group to migrate their mission critical, line of business application to SQL Server 2012. This session presents a case study of this project and the lessons learned from the experience.
Using Windows Azure to provide SQL Server Disaster Recovery
This session provides an architectural blueprint to deploying disaster recovery solutions combining on-premise and Windows Azure cloud technologies. The session looks at a design pattern to solve a long standing and often expensive issue of DR.
Hadoop, Big Data and SQL Server
There has been rapid development in the capabilities of SQL Server to support big data and hadoop following introduction of the HDInsight Service and HDInsight Server. This session covers SQL Server capability and integration points.
Get started with troubleshooting SQL Server
This session present key tools, methodology and approach for troubleshooting SQL Server. Performance and availability of the database engine has a direct impact on user experience of applications.
DR with the Worlds largest data center
This session will look at providing cost effective DR capability with Azure.
Migrating databases to Azure
Running databases in SQL Servers in your office or data centre? Considering moving them to Azure? Want to know what options and benefits of Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service?
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