22-25 April 2026 John Martin
John is an experienced data platform professional having spent over a decade working with various data and cloud platform technologies, specialising in Microsoft SQL Server wherever it is deployed. In this time John has learned how to get the most out of these platforms as well as the key pitfalls that should be avoided.
John Martin's Sessions
An introduction to Amazon Athena interactive query serviceSQLBits 2022
This talk will focus on providing you with the knowledge to get started with Amazon Athena to query multiple data sources quickly and easily.
An Introduction to Amazon Redshift cloud data warehouseSQLBits 2022
This talk will help you understand how Amazon Redshift works as well as how to use it to deliver operational analytics up to 10x faster and 3x price performance than other enterprise data warehouses.
Getting Started with Amazon RDS for SQL ServerSQLBits 2022
This talk will focus on the key concepts of Amazon RDS for SQL Server and how to deploy database resources quickly and efficiently. Giving you the core knowledge to get started with SQL Server in the AWS Cloud.
Running SQL Server workloads on Amazon Aurora with BablefishSQLBits 2022
This talk will focus on, and demonstrate, the core concepts about how Bablefish for Aurora PostgreSQL can be used to deliver cost-effective migrations faster, and with lower risk.
Data Virtualisation, how to use it!SQLBits 2022
In this session we will walk through how to use Amazon Redshift to query external data in combination with data already resident in our data warehouse. Allowing us to abstract the complexity of multiple data sources from our users.
Data Virtualisation, what is it?SQLBits 2022
In this session we will look at what data virtualisation is and what the technique can be used for with Amazon Redshift.
Data Virtualisation, why use it?SQLBits 2022
In this session we will look at use cases for data virtualisation with Amazon Redshift and why we might use it in preference to traditional ETL techniques.