Deepthi Goguri

Deepthi is a SQL Server Database Administrator with several years of experience in Administering SQL Servers. She is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Microsoft certified trainer and Microsoft certified professional with an Associate and Expert level Certification in Data Management and Analytics. Deepthi blogs for DBANuggets.com. Deepthi is a Co-Organizer for Microsoft Data and AI South Florida user group, Data TGIF, Cloud Data Driven User Group, Future Data Driven Summit, Databash Conference and Data Platform Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Virtual Group. She is also DEI Steering Committee member for PASS Data Community Summit. She is a Redgate Community Ambassador. Along with this, Deepthi loves arts and crafts. You can contact her on Twitter @dbanuggets.

Proposed Sessions for 2026

EmpowerHER Tech: How Allies Drive Real Change

This session explores how meaningful allyship can create a more inclusive and equitable tech environment. Attendees will learn practical strategies to recognize challenges faced by women in technology, address unconscious bias, and actively support a more diverse and empowered workforce. Perfect for anyone committed to building a healthier, more collaborative tech culture.

From Confusion to Clarity: Understanding Fabric Capacity Like a Pro

Learn how to make sense of the Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics App and use it to monitor, analyze, and optimize your environment. This session shows you how to spot capacity issues early, understand usage patterns, and keep workloads running efficiently giving administrators, data engineers, and architects the insight needed to maintain a high-performing Fabric environment.

From Risk to Resilience: Building a Secure Azure SQL Environment

Learn how to secure Azure SQL Database using a multilayered, defense-in-depth approach that protects your environment from every angle. This session provides practical guidance on network security, access control, data protection, monitoring, threat detection and encryption, giving you the confidence to safeguard your workloads during and after cloud migration.

Performance Tuning: How Query Store Saves Your Server (and Your Sleep)

Query Store takes the guesswork out of SQL Server performance by revealing exactly when and why queries change, making it easier to diagnose regressions, stabilize workloads, and prevent late-night emergencies. Attend this session to learn practical techniques, best practices, and new platform capabilities that help you resolve issues quickly and keep systems running reliably. This session is ideal for DBAs, database engineers, and SQL developers responsible for maintaining performance-critical workloads.

The First Step: Empowering New Tech Speakers

This session helps tech and data professionals overcome the fear of public speaking and begin their journey as confident presenters. You’ll gain practical steps, encouragement, and strategies to build your voice, grow your skills, and share your expertise with the community.

When Good Queries Go Bad: Fixing Performance with Query Store

This session shows how Query Store helps developers and DBAs take the guesswork out of query performance by tracking query and execution plan history over time. You’ll learn how to identify performance regressions, understand plan changes, and quickly stabilize SQL Server and Azure SQL Database workloads using practical techniques and real-world demos.

Previous Sessions

A to Z Azure SQL Security Concepts

Planning to move your databases to the cloud but seriously doubt if your data is 100% secure? No matter if you are on-prem or in the cloud, making sure your data is protected in every angle possible is the most crucial and important step in building a secure data tier of an application. Let's dedicate this session to knowing the different multi-layer defense-in-depth security techniques and strategies available to armor your Azure SQL database. let's dive deep into each of these layers starting with the network security, Azure role-based access control (RBAC), data security at the row level, auditing, advanced threat protection, different layers of encryption, monitoring, and more. By the end of this session, you will have the knowledge to make the right security decisions for your environments and implement these techniques in securing your data.

Can an Introvert become an International Speaker? If so, How?

Are you a data professional and would like to share your learnings with others but are scared to speak in public? Are you an Introvert and are comfortable in your own space but also wanted to make an impact in this world? Is something inside you pulling you back from taking the action on your dream? Meet the two data platform speakers who started their speaking journey from the same exact situation but now sharing their learnings across the world helping other data professionals in their journey. How did they actually begin, what challenges did they go through and who helped them along the way? As they speak about their incredible journey, they will share some key details in becoming a speaker, the advantages, steps to improve data skills and develop careers along the way so the audience can carry the knowledge as they take their first steps in becoming one.

Different dimensions of monitoring and tuning performance for Azure SQL

Azure SQL performance capabilities, how to configure and maintain your Azure SQL for higher performance. We will explore various monitoring tools and pick few scenarios for deeper troubleshooting. In this demo centric session, we will tune our database and find an optimal ground to manage cost. We will generate Power BI powered database score card for trend analysis.

Troubleshoot and Triage Like a Pro

Let us walk you through our steps to triage and troubleshoot issues as they come in to make sure things get fixed in the right order at the right time and we all stay sane.