22-25 April 2026 
Mark Pryce-Maher
Mark Pryce-Maher is a Senior Program Manager on Microsoft Fabric. Primary focusing on the Mirroring, User Experiences and Migrations for the Data Warehouse. Mark has spent the last 7 years at Microsoft in the Big Data space, including helping many customers migrate from Netezza, Teradata, Oracle, APS, SQL Server to Synapse Data Warehouse.
Mark Pryce-Maher's Training Days
From Beginner to Certified: A Fabric Analytics Engineer WorkshopSQLBits 2024
In this full day workshop, we’ll cover the skills and tasks required for a career as a Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer and prepare you for the DP-600 Certification Exam.
Lakehouse in a daySQLBits 2023
In this training session you will build a full fletched green field Lakehouse architecture based on best practices! You will be guided by experts in the field to learn about the key components & how to build it in the most dynamic & performant way!
How to build a data warehouse solution for your analytical workloadsSQLBits 2022
Learn how to implement a data warehouse analytics solution with Azure Synapse. We will cover best practices on migrations, performance, security, and more!
Mark Pryce-Maher's Sessions
Synapse Q&A with PGSQLBits 2023
SQLBits' has brought members of the Azure Synapse Program Group to Wales to ask YOUR questions. Bring your questions for: Dedicated SQL Pools, Serverless SQL Pools, Spark Pools, Pipelines, Kusto and everything else Synapse related.
Dedicated SQL Pools : How some stuff 'really' worksSQLBits 2022
Session covering table distributions, partitioning , RSC and materialised views.
Reporting on 1.4B rows with Serverless SQL PoolsSQLBits 2022
Building a dashboard using Serverless SQL Pools in a performant way
Monster Data Loading with SynapseSQLBits 2022
Get to grips with data loading in Synapse.
Azure Synapse Analytics: Evolving Azure SQL Data WarehouseSQLBits 2021
In this session we explore Azure Synapse Analytics, we will dive into this limitless analytics service and explore how it brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics.
Azure Synapse Analytics: Evolving Azure SQL Data WarehouseSQLBits 2020
In this session we explore Azure Synapse Analytics, we will dive into this limitless analytics service and explore how it brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics.
Modernizing & Migrating Your Data Warehouse w/ Azure SynapseSQLBits 2020
This session will dive into how to successfully migrate to Azure Synapse, all the way from code conversion to enterprise grade developer tooling, with real customer examples for product and migration experts.
Microsoft Premier Field Engineers and Consultants Unplugged.SQLBits 2019
This session is your opportunity to ask the people who know, the questions you want to ask. Microsoft Premier Field Engineers and Consultants are the people that go out to talk to customers and implement solutions.
Azure Machine Learning from the ground upSQLBits 2015
Azure Machine Learning is a fully managed cloud service for predictive analytics.
In this 1hour session, we will run through;
ML Studio,using data, Creating and running Experiments, visualising results, R , publishing and using experiments.
Building a SSMS Add-in; The Agony and EcstasySQLBits 2011
We will travel back in time a bit to SQL 2005 to see how SSMS Add-ins worked, then jump forward to the present day were we will go through the process of writing a SSMS Add-in for R2.
Azure Data : Q&A Panel (hot sauce edition)SQLBits 2022
Azure Data Q&A Panel with a difference
Dedicated SQL Pools : How some stuff 'really' worksSQLBits 2022
Session covering table distributions, partitioning , RSC and materialised views.
How to get the best out of your Synapse Serverless SQL Pools!SQLBits 2022
Best practices when implementing Serverless SQL Pools
Monster 'Data Load'SQLBits 2022
Data loading of big files
Azure Synapse Analytics: Evolving Azure SQL Data WarehouseSQLBits 2021
In this session we explore Azure Synapse Analytics, we will dive into this limitless analytics service and explore how it brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics.
Azure Synapse Analytics: Evolving Azure SQL Data WarehouseSQLBits 2020
In this session we explore Azure Synapse Analytics, we will dive into this limitless analytics service and explore how it brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics.
Modernizing & Migrating Your Data Warehouse w/ Azure SynapseSQLBits 2020
This session will dive into how to successfully migrate to Azure Synapse, all the way from code conversion to enterprise grade developer tooling, with real customer examples for product and migration experts.
Microsoft Premier Field Engineers and Consultants Unplugged.SQLBits 2019
This session is your opportunity to ask the people who know, the questions you want to ask. Microsoft Premier Field Engineers and Consultants are the people that go out to talk to customers and implement solutions.
Azure Machine Learning from the ground upSQLBits 2015
Azure Machine Learning is a fully managed cloud service for predictive analytics.
In this 1hour session, we will run through;
ML Studio,using data, Creating and running Experiments, visualising results, R , publishing and using experiments.
Building a SSMS Add-in; The Agony and EcstasySQLBits 2011
We will travel back in time a bit to SQL 2005 to see how SSMS Add-ins worked, then jump forward to the present day were we will go through the process of writing a SSMS Add-in for R2.