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SQLBits 2024

SQLBits 2024 Opening Keynote

The Opening Keynote

The Opening Keynote

Speakers

Bob Ward is a Principal Architect for the Microsoft Azure Data SQL Server team which owns the development and servicing for all SQL Server versions. Bob has worked for Microsoft for 26 years supporting and speaking on every version of SQL Server.

Principal Program Manager at Microsoft

Adam Saxton is a Principal Program Manager focusing on the BI technologies, including Power BI

Erin Stellato is a Principal Consultant with SQLskills and a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. She has worked with SQL Server since 2003. Her areas of interest include internals, performance tuning, and high and high availability and disaster recovery.

Bob Ward's Sessions

Inside SQL Server 2025 Part 1

Inside SQL Server 2025 Part 2

SQL Server Versioning Explained

Inside the SQL Server Transaction Log - Part 1

Inside the SQL Server Transaction Log - Part 2

Keynote: Transform Data into Competitive Edge with Azure

A Deep Dive into SQL database in Microsoft Fabric

SQL Server 2025 Community Edition

SQL Server 2025 Engine Deep Dive

SQL Server 2025: The AI-ready enterprise database from ground to cloud

Meet the Azure Data Leadership team

SQL Server 2025 and AMD in the era of AI

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What You Should Know About Always On Availability Groups

Welcome to the world of SQL Copilots

Come see your SQL Perfmon in the cloud

The Microsoft Data Leadership Panel

SQL Server and Windows Server Better together on Azure

Meet the PG: SQL Leadership

Ask the Expert - Group A (Fri, 16:20 to 16:40)

Debugging SQL Server

The SQL Leadership Panel

SQL Server 2022 and the Wheel of Power

SQL Server 2022 hidden gems

The Kingdom of AdventureWorks Calls for Aid

Meet the PG: SQL Leadership

Platform Innovations with SQL Server 2022 + Intel

Introducing SQL Server 2022

How to Build Secure, Scalable, and Highly Available Applications with Azure SQL Database

SQL Server 2022: The hybrid data platform

AMA with the Microsoft Engineering team hosted by Bob Ward

Learn SQL through architecture

Meet the PG: Azure Data

SQL Server 2019: The Modern Data Platform

Inside SQL Server on Kubernetes

SQL Server to Azure SQL: Performance and Availability

Inside SQL Server 2019

Inside SQL Server Containers

Inside SQL Server 2019 Polybase

Experience SQL Server on Linux and Containers

Experience SQL Server 2017: The Modern Database Platform

Adaptive query processing in SQL databases

SQL Server 2016 It Just Runs Faster

Enhancements that will make your SQL Server roar-SP1 Ed.

Keep Your Environment Always On with SQL Server 2016

Troubleshooting the Memory of SQL Server

Deploying SQL Server with Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine

Windows Azure SQL Database Troubleshooting

Patrick LeBlanc's Sessions

Keynote: Transform Data into Competitive Edge with Azure

Deep Dive into Power BI Direct Lake - Part 1

Deep Dive into Power BI Direct Lake - Part 2

Meet the Azure Data Leadership team

Navigating Microsoft Fabric - Choosing the Right Workload for Your Needs

Analytics at the speed of Direct Lake

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Meet the PG: Power BI with Patrick, Adam and Mohammad

The Most Powerful Azure Service You’ve Never Heard Of

The Path to Success with Power BI: Best Practices

Power BI + Azure Synapse Analytics: Beginning your journey

Meet the PG: Power BI

Power BI User Group: Ask Me Anything! Learn from the Experts and Boost Your Skills

Keeping your data fresh in Power BI

Empowering every individual with Power BI

Enabling teams with Power BI

Meet the Microsoft PG: Patrick LeBlanc, Power BI

Getting Intimate with the Power BI Desktop

Create Pixel Perfect Reports: The Story of Paginated Reports

Enable Hybrid Data access with the On-premises Data Gateway

Power BI Report Server: A Deep Dive

Power BI: Adam and Patrick Unplugged

Adam Saxton's Sessions

Navigating Microsoft Fabric - Choosing the Right Workload for Your Needs

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Meet the PG: Power BI with Patrick, Adam and Mohammad

The Path to Success with Power BI: Best Practices

Power BI + Azure Synapse Analytics: Beginning your journey

Meet the PG: Power BI

Getting Intimate with the Power BI Desktop

Power BI Report Server: A Deep Dive

Power BI: Adam and Patrick Unplugged

Using a gateway to leverage on-premises data in Power BI

Erin Stellato's Sessions

SSMS 21 Spotlight: What's new and why it matters, Part I

SSMS 21 Spotlight: What's new and why it matters, Part II

Maximizing what's new in SQL tools and their Copilots

SQL Server 2025 Engine Deep Dive

Getting Started with Troubleshooting Query Performance

Stabilizing Performance with Query Store

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What You've Been Missing in SSMS

Meet the PG: SQL tools

Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization in SQL 2022 ... As Cool as it Sounds?

Query Store Best Practices

The SQL Leadership Panel

From Your Couch to the Cloud: When and Why to Choose the Azure Portal

Azure Data Studio and the Surprises Inside

Meet the PG: Just Use Extended Events Already with Erin Stellato

Query Store Best Practices

Erin & Monica’s Favorite SQL Stuff

Options for Proactively Managing Statistics in SQL Server

Why You Need Query Store

Meet the SQL Tools team

Stop Tuning Queries and Start Tuning Your Workload

Stop Tuning Queries and Start Tuning Your Workload

Why You Need Query Store

Plan Stability with Automatic Tuning in SQL Server and Azure

Extending your use of Extended Events

Kicking & Screaming: Replacing Profiler with Extended Events

Alex Whittles's Sessions

Prepare for Fabric with Power BI Governance, Auditing and DR

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Power BI Composite and Hybrid Models

Power BI governance, disaster recovery and auditing

Power BI Calculation Groups

Power BI Composite and Advanced Models

Machine Learning and Power BI

Machine Learning and Power BI

So what's this Machine Learning all about?

An Introduction to Machine Learning

Permy, Contractor or Freelance?

Using PowerBI and DAX to predict and win Fantasy F1

Data Modeling for Analysis Services Cubes

Loading Data Warehouse Dimensions in SSIS

Automating SSAS cube documentation using SSRS, DMV and Spatial Data

PowerPivot and QlikView 101

Buck Woody's Sessions

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Meet the PG: SQL Leadership

Generative AI: Concepts, Tools, and Applications for Data Professionals

Should I become a manager in IT

Should I become a manager in IT

Arc, Arc and Arc: De-mystifying Azure Arc for Data

The Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform

The Kingdom of AdventureWorks Calls for Aid

Muazma Zahid's Sessions

10 Free SQL Databases: Your Playground for AI, Advanced Analytics, and Next-Gen Applications!

Azure SQL Unleashed: Performance, AI, and Next-Gen Scalability

Developing AI applications with SQL AI: Ground to Cloud to Fabric

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SQL DB: a developer's catalyst

Building AI ready applications

The Microsoft Data Leadership Panel

Meet the PG: SQL Leadership

Meet the PG: Developers

Asad Khan's Sessions

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Accelerate your Oracle & Mainframe Modernization journey to Azure SQL

The Microsoft Data Leadership Panel

Meet the PG: SQL Leadership

Yitzhak Kesselman's Sessions

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Raghu Nambiar's Sessions

SQLBits 2024 Opening Keynote