SQLPlayer is renaming

It was about time. The blog and all related services are being changed the name.

From SQL Player to Azure Player.

You probably noticed over several years that the most popular conferences have changed their names:

• SQLGrillen to DataGrillen,
• SQL Relay to Data Relay.
• SQL Saturday stays the same, whereas similar Data Saturday appears
• SQLGla graduated to Data Scotland
• sqlserverdays to dataminds connect
• Fine, the biggest one in the UK – SQLBits still remains with the good, old one).
• The same for SQLDay in Poland.

Don’t get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with SQL word in the name. I still like SQL Server and love SQL language. This is my background and where I started my professional journey over 20 years ago. But the Microsoft’s Data Platform evolves. Much. Very much. Nowadays it is tons more than just SQL Server or relational database. It’s entire bunch of services and applications: starting with fundamentals like Azure Storage accounts, Azure Data Factory, Azure Key Vault, Azure Synapse, Microsoft Power BI.

As you can see – Azure is everywhere now. Professionally for many years now, I work with Azure only, the work sometimes includes Azure SQL Database, but it’s about 10% of my work only.

That’s why my decision. And it’s not easy to conduct, because the blog is not the only one place where I contribute for community. There are several other places I do care of:

• GitHub,
• YouTube,
• Learning platform,
• Microsoft Marketplace,
• Twitter,
• Facebook.

And, of course, I would like to keep all of them in sync and renamed. Therefore, the transition process just kicked off with the blog first and will follow other channels.

Do fingers cross that the whole process goes smoothly.
But if you face any issue – please let me know via Twitter (DM).