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SQLBits 2026

Intelligent Query Processing: From Insight to Impact

Intelligent Query Processing in 2025 is next level in your query tuning process. Join us in this session to see live demos of how Intelligent Query Processing fits into your environment and improves performance.

Achieving peak database performance requires more than just hardware - it demands smarter query optimization.

SQL Server 2025 introduces the next generation of IQP, introducing more adaptive features designed to boost performance and simplify tuning.

Join us in this session for live demos showcasing key features in action and how they can improve your workloads performance.

Speakers

Grant Fritchey, SQL Server MVP, works for Redgate Software as a Product Advocate. He is the author of the books SQL Server Execution Plans (Simple-Talk) and SQL Server Query Performance Tuning (Apress).

Warwick Rudd is the founder and principal consultant at SQL Masters Consulting.A Microsoft Certified Master – SQL Server 2008 and Data Platform MVP who likes to get away to the snow when not working with technology.

Grant Fritchey's Sessions

Intelligent Query Processing: From Insight to Impact

dbRosetta, An AI Generated Application and Database

PostgreSQL For Those Who Know SQL Server

Query Performance Enhancements in SQL Server 2025

Learning PostgreSQL as a SQL Server User

Maximize your Productivity: 10 Ways Redgate Makes Database Management Easier

The (Data) Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

Understanding Extended Events

Managing the Challenge of Monitoring Growing, Multi-platform Database Estates

The New Database Landscape - Revealing Shifts and Charting the Next Horizon

Fundamentals of Git

Efficiency up, failed releases down; compliant production data for your test and dev environments

Automating Database Deployments Using Github Actions

Benefits of Using Version Control In Database Development

SQL Server Query Performance: Common Problems, Possible Solutions

Flyway: An Evolution in Database Deployments

What I’m telling your developers about DevOps

SQL Injection: How it Works, How to Stop It

Yes, You Should Monitor Azure SQL Database

SQL Injection: How it Works, How to Stop It

Learn to Read Execution Plans

Environment Provisioning: The Third Age

DevOps and Data

Exploring Execution Plans

Data protection & privacy in the world of database DevOps

Statistics, Row Counts, Execution Plans, and Query Tuning

Introducing the Query Store

Faster Provisioning with SQL Clone

The Query Store and Query Tuning in SQL Server vNext

Execution Plans: What Can You Do With Them?

Top Tips for Better T-SQL

Automating Your Database Deployments

Getting Started Reading Execution Plans

Monitoring Windows Azure SQL Server VMs and SQL Databases

Query Tuning in the Clouds

Warwick Rudd's Sessions

Azure SQL Database, a great alternative to SQL Server Express or Standard Edition

Copilot to the Rescue -Simplifying DBA tasks in SSMS 22

Intelligent Query Processing: From Insight to Impact

Improve productivity quickly by integrating new Fabric Task Flows for Better Project Management

Database Projects 101 in ADS