Keynote by the Community

Nose-Dive Narratives: Slide Karaoke 2024

Get ready to wrap up a serious day of learning with a dash of humor, spontaneity, and friendly competition! SQLBits presents "Slide Karaoke" where SQLBits speakers reveal their hidden talents while vying for bragging rights. This session promises to be a one-of-a-kind experience that will leave you in stitches and awe, and the speakers scrambling for their non-existent notes!

20 mins to git comfortable

In this new world we're all developers! Whether we're writing application code or describing our infrastructure using bicep or terraform we need to keep it safe. Git and source control is our best option for developing on our own and as part of a team… but git is scary! In this 20 min session we'll go through just enough to git you comfortable with source control.

10 Productivity tools in 20 minutes

You are busy, we are busy, everyone is busy. These are the tools that two busy consultants use to improve their productivity. We want to tell you about the tools that we use; that maximise our time, simplify our life, reduce our key strokes and generally make us appear more amazing. So that you can use them too. We have 20 minutes, so we wont go into much detail but we have some good quick stories to tell.

There is a time and a place for everything

There is a time and a place for everything. John and Rob, being consultants, often say "Well, it depends" Lets talk about some of the times when the "rules" may not fit

SQL Notebooks in Azure Data Studio for the DBA

While you might have read about notebooks being used for Data Science, this session is for DBAs. You will see how you can use SQL Notebooks to simplify your work.

How To Start Collaborating With A GitHub Repository

Wanted to join with open-source projects but don’t know how? This quick session will give you all that you need to start doing so.

Creating Azure SQL Db Users with an SPN using Azure DevOps

This session will take you through the steps required to build an automated solution to create an Azure SQL Database with a Service Principal and create users and apply permissions

Validate Your SQL Server Estate with Ease Using dbachecks

Learn how you can validate your SQL Server estate with ease using dbachecks

Introduction to Pester-TDD for PowerShell

Start from nothing and use Test Driven Development to write a PowerShell function that uses the Microsoft Cognitive Services API to analyse pictures. I will take you on a journey from nothing to a complete function

Advice and guidance on becoming a speaker or volunteer

Want to become a community speaker or involved in the SQL Community? Don't feel confident enough to try? Need some advice and guidance? We want to help you, we will help you

Flight of Innovation: Enhancing On-Prem and Multi-Cloud SQL Instances with a Cloud Cockpit

Learn how Azure Arc extends Azure's comprehensive feature set to your entire SQL estate, irrespective of location or platform.

Fueling Your Future: Embracing the Rewards of Data Platform Community Involvement

In this session, we delve into the power of active participation in the data platform community. Through speaking, volunteering, blogging, mentoring, organizing, or other ways, individuals not only give back but also get rewarded immensely, both, personal and professional.

Be more responsible around AI - Less Bias, More Ethics

This session is focused on the importance of ethical considerations in the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

Azure Arc in 50 Minutes

Join me on a journey to understand what Azure Arc is and how it allows you to manage your hybrid and multi-cloud estates.

Never ETL again, thanks to Synapse Link. Really?

Let's take a look at Synapse Link - it's capabilities and restrictions! Synapse Link is Microsoft's new solution to push your OLTP data in near-real time to Azure Synapse for analytical purposes.

Keynote by The Community

Ben and Rob have found some wonderful folk to actually do the important parts of the community keynote. on the theme of How to be a nonpassive member of the data community

Why is understanding Kubernetes important for your career as a Data Professional?

A panel discussion on why both - admins and developers - should understand the impacts and benefits of containerized applications.

Azure Arc-enabled SQL MI – More than just another kind of SQL Server

Join us, as we explore the capabilities of Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instances.

(Almost) all about Azure Arc - in 20 Minutes

Join me on a journey through the different offerings in Azure Arc and how they can benefit you as a data professional!

SQL Server Big Data Clusters: The Full Story

A complete overview about SQL Server Big Data Clusters including it's major components and use-cases!

The Self-Tuning SSIS Package

This session is about using the Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml) to monitor and control your orchestration patterns. By automatically analyzing the results in ETL logs, we’ll be able to automate our staging orchestration!