****This meeting will be 100% online — there will be no in person meetings at this time ****

**Connection Software: Microsoft Teams**

The Des Moines chapter of the Iowa Data Professionals (IDPA) will meet the Monday before the 2nd Wednesday of the new month. The 2nd Wednesday of the new month is reserved by Quad City PASS.

Meetup Organizers will start the Microsoft Teams meeting at 5:30 PM, Central Time (22:30 UTC), and will then admit attendees into the remote meeting.

Please connect, eat your dinner and network with other data professionals until the meeting is called to order.

At 5:50 PM Central Time (23:00 UTC) our Local Group Leader will call the meeting to order with brief announcements.

**At 6:00 PM Central Time (23:00 UTC) we will introduce the featured speaker Deepthi Goguri**.

Session Information:

**“Performance Tuning Tools in Azure”**

Once you deploy your database in Azure, you need to make sure you are always increasing the tiers and paying more for the performance of your database. Just like you tune your databases on-prem, you need to focus on optimizing your database for performance. But how do we achieve this in Azure?

Let’s dedicate this session to mainly focus on the ways that you can optimize and tune your Azure data solutions so you can save money being on Azure and get fast response times for your queries.