A Deep Dive into Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse

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!

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.

Workflows of Highly Functional App & Data Engineering Teams

Explore best practices in enterprise data engineering, focusing on Schema Management, Standards Enforcement, Database Testing, & Automated Deployment. Navigate Microsoft's complex options to achieve change management, observability, & quality at scale. Goals: Master schema control, ensure engineering quality, & streamline delivery through automation.

A Deep Dive into DevOps Practices with Azure SQL

Explore the intricacies of DevOps practices tailored for Azure SQL in this demo-heavy session, highlighting both the inner and outer development loops. Embark on a journey through the essential principles of Database version control, Immutable Database Infrastructure, Schema Management, Testing, and Seamless CI/CD. Bid farewell to the notorious "But it worked on my computer!" dilemma by embracing robust DevOps practices, fostering trust and efficiency across your development cycles—from local environments to the expansive cloud. Navigate the array of Azure SQL tools for DevOps practices with potent command-line tools, and uncover seamless integration with industry-leading third-party tools such as GitHub Actions, Codespaces, Terraform, and extensions for popular IDEs like VS Code and Azure Data Studio.