22-25 April 2026 Justin Langford
I am Chief Executive and co-founder at Coeo, a Microsoft Certified Master for SQL Server and Data Platform MVP. I have co-authored three books on SQL Server and I regularly present at industry and community events. At Coeo we help customers get more from their data and their investment in the Microsoft platform, and my role involves helping our customers with strategic technology choices and roadmap. I work with our customers to ensure we provide expertise to reduce risk and accelerate project delivery and ensure true business value is realised early and maximised through operational capability. I live in London with my wife where we enjoy long river walks, I love travelling and sailing on the south coast of England and in warmer climates too.
Justin Langford's Sessions
Using Windows Azure to provide SQL Server Disaster RecoverySQLBits 2013
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 ServerSQLBits 2013
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.
SQL Server 2012 TAP: Lessons learnedSQLBits 2012
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.
Notes from the field: Cross-team Performance TroubleshootingSQLBits 2011
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.
Performance Troubleshooting made easy with PALSQLBits 2010
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 ServerSQLBits 2010
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.
High Availability in SQL Server 2008SQLBits 2009
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 ServerSQLBits 2009
Planning and design considerations for running a SQL Server consolidation project.
Virtualising SQL ServerSQLBits 2009
This session provides details on approaching a SQL Server virtualisation project.
How to approach zero downtime database upgrades SQLBits 2008
How to approach zero downtime database upgrades
Using Windows Azure to provide SQL Server Disaster RecoverySQLBits 2013
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 ServerSQLBits 2013
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.
SQL Server 2012 TAP: Lessons learnedSQLBits 2012
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.
Notes from the field: Cross-team Performance TroubleshootingSQLBits 2011
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.
Performance Troubleshooting made easy with PALSQLBits 2010
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 ServerSQLBits 2010
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.
High Availability in SQL Server 2008SQLBits 2009
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 ServerSQLBits 2009
Planning and design considerations for running a SQL Server consolidation project.
Virtualising SQL ServerSQLBits 2009
This session provides details on approaching a SQL Server virtualisation project.
How to approach zero downtime database upgrades SQLBits 2008
How to approach zero downtime database upgrades