SQLBits 2023
Synapse Q&A with PG
SQLBits' has brought members of the Azure Synapse Program Group to Wales to ask YOUR questions. Bring your questions for: Dedicated SQL Pools, Serverless SQL Pools, Spark Pools, Pipelines, Kusto and everything else Synapse related.
SQLBits' has brought members of the Azure Synapse Program Group to Wales to ask YOUR questions. Bring your questions for: Dedicated SQL Pools, Serverless SQL Pools, Spark Pools, Pipelines, Kusto and everything else Synapse related.
It could be about a feature, a migration you are going through or just to say you like our socks.
It could be about a feature, a migration you are going through or just to say you like our socks.
Speakers
Mark Pryce-Maher's other proposed sessions for 2026
New in Microsoft Fabric: The Warehouse and the SQL Analytics Endpoint - 2026
SQL vs. Fabric? Why Not Both! A Practical and Entertaining Guide for All - 2026
Mark Pryce-Maher's previous sessions
From Beginner to Certified: A Fabric Analytics Engineer Workshop
In this full day workshop, we’ll cover the skills and tasks required for a career as a Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer and prepare you for the DP-600 Certification Exam.
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!
Fabric Product Group - Ask us Anything
Come and join the Fabric Product Group for one of our fireside chats. Bring your questions because we have all the answers!!
Fabric Power Hour
The famous Power BI Power Hour returns, but this time it has expanded to cover the whole of Fabric!
A Deep Dive into Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse
Deep Dive into Data Warehousing in Microsoft Fabric. Explore the intricacies of Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, unraveling its capabilities and demonstrating effective strategies for its utilization.
Synapse Q&A with PG
SQLBits' has brought members of the Azure Synapse Program Group to Wales to ask YOUR questions. Bring your questions for: Dedicated SQL Pools, Serverless SQL Pools, Spark Pools, Pipelines, Kusto and everything else Synapse related.
Lightning Talks
5 minute lightning talks from your favourite speakers
Dedicated SQL Pools : How some stuff 'really' works
Session covering table distributions, partitioning , RSC and materialised views.
Reporting on 1.4B rows with Serverless SQL Pools
Building a dashboard using Serverless SQL Pools in a performant way
Azure Synapse Analytics: Evolving Azure SQL Data Warehouse
In this session we explore Azure Synapse Analytics, we will dive into this limitless analytics service and explore how it brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics.
Modernizing & Migrating Your Data Warehouse w/ Azure Synapse
This session will dive into how to successfully migrate to Azure Synapse, all the way from code conversion to enterprise grade developer tooling, with real customer examples for product and migration experts.
Azure Machine Learning from the ground up
Azure Machine Learning is a fully managed cloud service for predictive analytics.
In this 1hour session, we will run through;
ML Studio,using data, Creating and running Experiments, visualising results, R , publishing and using experiments.
Building a SSMS Add-in; The Agony and Ecstasy
We will travel back in time a bit to SQL 2005 to see how SSMS Add-ins worked, then jump forward to the present day were we will go through the process of writing a SSMS Add-in for R2.
Stijn Wynants
sql-stijn.com
Stijn Wynants's other proposed sessions for 2026
OneLake Security: A Deep Dive - 2026
Stijn Wynants's previous sessions
Synapse Q&A with PG
SQLBits' has brought members of the Azure Synapse Program Group to Wales to ask YOUR questions. Bring your questions for: Dedicated SQL Pools, Serverless SQL Pools, Spark Pools, Pipelines, Kusto and everything else Synapse related.
What's New and Cool in Azure Synapse Analytics
Azure Synapse Analytics is a unified platform for end-to-end analytics. Join this session to find out about recently announced updates to Azure Synapse and to see the new features in action and learn in which scenarios and how you can use them.
Reporting on 1.4B rows with Serverless SQL Pools
Building a dashboard using Serverless SQL Pools in a performant way
Azure DW and Power BI, reporting at the speed of light!
In this action-packed demo full session, we will be showing you how to combine Azure DW and Power BI to get optimal performance for running your day to day reports.
Luke Moloney
Luke Moloney's other proposed sessions for 2026
Airflow in Fabric - an introduction informed by experience - 2026
Fabric for ISVs - Develop multi-tenancy apps on Fabric - 2026
Lessons from large-scale Fabric deployment - 2026
Practical lessons in optimizing Data Engineering with Spark - Part 1 - 2026
Practical lessons in optimizing Data Engineering with Spark - Part 2 - 2026
Luke Moloney's previous sessions
Flying High with Data Engineering in Microsoft Fabric
In this session demo centric session we will walk through Data Engineering in Microsoft including: Getting started with Notebooks, Learning how Fabric Lakehouse's provides flexibility to use the tools you prefer, The flexibility of data engineering in Spark - including Cluster Configuration, Environments and Library Management and finally, How Copilot enables all developers to be more efficient with Spark.
Harnessing Data Science and AI in Fabric
In this session you will learn about all the latest data science developments in Microsoft Fabric. We will show you how Fabric supports the end-to-end data science workflow and how we plan to evolve these capabilities. We will also look at exciting new AI capabilities including Copilot experiences and more!
Synapse Q&A with PG
SQLBits' has brought members of the Azure Synapse Program Group to Wales to ask YOUR questions. Bring your questions for: Dedicated SQL Pools, Serverless SQL Pools, Spark Pools, Pipelines, Kusto and everything else Synapse related.
The fundamentals of building a lakehouse with Synapse
The fundamentals of building a lakehouse with Synapse
Pawel Potasinski
aka.ms/fabricblog
Pawel Potasinski's previous sessions
Synapse Q&A with PG
SQLBits' has brought members of the Azure Synapse Program Group to Wales to ask YOUR questions. Bring your questions for: Dedicated SQL Pools, Serverless SQL Pools, Spark Pools, Pipelines, Kusto and everything else Synapse related.
Power BI + Azure Synapse Analytics. All you need to start creating a unified analytics solution
Join this session to start your journey to unified analytics using Power BI and Azure Synapse Analytics.
Azure Data Explorer - a Torch in the Dungeon of Observational Analytics
Join this session to learn what Azure Data Explorer (aka Kusto) is, see it in action and get a quick start in this great platform for observational analytics.
What's New and Cool in Azure Synapse Analytics
Azure Synapse Analytics is a unified platform for end-to-end analytics. Join this session to find out about recently announced updates to Azure Synapse and to see the new features in action and learn in which scenarios and how you can use them.