Databases are like languages—it's very useful to know more than one. NoSQL databases promise better performance, scaling, lower cost of ownership, and flexibility for many use cases. With recent advances in NoSQL, including ACID transactions, SQL queries, scopes, collections, and more, making the jump to NoSQL is becoming more straightforward. In this session, I will demonstrate my work-in-progress open source tool to automatically migrate SQL Server's AdventureWorks sample (including tables, data, indexes, users, and even queries) over to a NoSQL database (Couchbase). I'll discuss the trade-offs, benefits, pros and cons. After this short session, you'll have taken a huge leap to learning a new technology.

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About the Presenter

Matthew Groves, Microsoft MVP, Couchbase Developer Advocate

Matthew D. Groves is a guy who loves to code. It doesn't matter if it's C#, jQuery, or PHP—he'll submit pull requests for anything. He has been coding professionally ever since he wrote a QuickBASIC point-of-sale app for his parent's pizza shop back in the 90s. He currently works as a Developer Advocate for Couchbase. His free time is spent with his family, watching the Reds, and getting involved in the developer community. He is the author of AOP in .NET (published by Manning), a Pluralsight author, and a Microsoft MVP.

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