An introduction to scaling out packages using parallelism with the "Work pile" pattern, balanced data distributor and "Roll your own" techniques.

A deep dive into batch mode scalability with column store index and SQL 2014.

This session is a primer on column store indexes and SQL Server batch mode, it delves into the background behind the performance gains achieved by batch mode and includes demos on things that can be done to further enhance batch mode performance.

This session will take a look at how parallel select into can be scaled to the nth degree in SQL Server such that all available hardware resources are utilised as fully as possible.

An advanced look into how memory works in modern servers, on modern processors and how to leverage it with SQL Server.

You are hitting performance and scalability issues with the database engine, conventional wisdom and tools and getting you nowhere, where do you go ?, windows performance toolkit has the answers.

The storage industry is at one of the greatest inflection points in its history. Learn the basics of flash storage and how conventional wisdom needs to change and how best to leverage what is fast becoming the main stream storage technology.

The in-memory OLTP engine has been around since version 2014 of the database engine, do you need to be a SaaS provider processing billions of transactions a day to use this ?, the short answer is absolutely not and this session will show you why.

You are a developer and you want to leverage the 'Power' features in Azure DevOps via YAML pipeline as code, then this session is for you !