An Introduction to Azure Arc-enabled Data Services

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!

Unlocking Database Automation with dbatools: Practical Use Cases and Real-World Insights

This session focuses on how dbatools has revolutionized automation for Database Administrators (DBAs) in the SQL Server realm. It delves into the utilization of various dbatools cmdlets and practical applications. Participants will gain insights into performing migrations, setting up availability groups, data management within databases, and the backup and restoration of databases. These techniques are derived from real-world client scenarios encountered during the presenter's consulting practice.

Architecting for High Performance SQL Server on Virtual Machines

Misconfigurations and default settings in your virtual machine base SQL Server environment can be causing you the performance issues you are having. Learn what you need to build to design and build a high performance virtual machine environment for your SQL Server.

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.

Let's Talk Storage!

In this session, you will learn where data lives in a computer system, and the key performance metrics used to understand the health and performance of your storage subsystem.

The Cloud Never Goes Down, Right?

In this session, we'll set you on the right path towards high availability and disaster recovery for common data architectures in the cloud by the end of this session.

Deploying SQL Server in Kubernetes

Are you thinking about running SQL Server in Kubernetes and don’t know where to start…are you wondering what you really need to know? Then this is the session for you.

Practical Container Scenarios in Azure

You’ve heard the buzz about containers and Kubernetes, now let’s start your journey towards rapidly deploying and scaling your container-based applications in Azure

Container questions that Andrew and Anthony DM each other

A Q&A panel session with Andrew Pruski and Anthony Nocentino talking about all things containers! Hosted by Rob Sewell