Bob Ward

Join us for an in-depth session on the future of Microsoft One SQL—from on-premises to Azure and into Microsoft Fabric. Discover our unified, AI-ready relational database that powers modernization and next-gen AI apps. See how SQL delivers consistency, performance, and innovation everywhere you need it!

Planning to migrate SQL Server to Azure SQL and not sure where to start? Join this Ask Me Anything session with Microsoft SQL experts for open, candid discussion and direct answers to your migration questions. This interactive panel creates space to discuss real-world migration projects, operational challenges, and product feedback, including unfiltered input shared directly with the people shaping the platform. The session also helps you understand the major pillars of Microsoft’s investment in Azure SQL, so you can provide feedback and make more informed decisions aligned with your migration needs. Whether you are just starting your migration or modernizing a complex SQL estate, this session is designed to deliver practical, actionable guidance tailored to your scenarios

Building on previous sessions at SQLBits, this Ask the SQL Leadership Team creates space for direct questions, candid discussion, and real feedback. Join this open panel to dive into product strategy, how SQL is built, and share your unfiltered feedback directly with the people shaping the platform.

Azure SQL Database Hyperscale is built for modern AI apps with native vector indexes, semantic search, and low-latency RAG. Scale securely with up to 30 replicas and 150MBps log speed. Invoke models via T-SQL and Azure AI Foundry to modernize mission-critical workloads.

Join Bob Ward and friends to learn every aspect of SQL Server 2025 including AI built-in, Developer features, all of the core engine, Azure Arc, Fabric Mirroring, and more.

Join Bob Ward and friends to learn every aspect of SQL Server 2025 including AI built-in, Developer features, all of the core engine, Azure Arc, Fabric Mirroring, and more.

Are you trying to keep up with the pace of AI today especially when it comes to working with your data in SQL, ground to cloud to fabric? In this session you will not only learn fundamentals like vectors, AI models, prompts, model hosting, and RAG. But you will also learn what are the latest innovations such as AI Agents, MCP Servers, and GitHub Copilots. We will have plenty of demos and we will show you how we built them using AI! You will walk away with a better sense of how you can use AI securely with your data in SQL

Do you have to be experts like Bob Ward and Anna Hoffman to use SQL? What about Fabric?  Why not both? Come join our experts from Microsoft in this entertaining and educational session where the worlds of SQL and Fabric come to together in way you never knew existed

Version store, Accelerated Database Recovery, Optimized Locking, and RSCI. What do these all have in common? Versioning. In this session the mysteries of SQL Server versioning will be unlocked.

With all the news about developer and AI features in SQL, you might wonder if we had any time to invest in the RDBMS core. We certainly did! If you are a DBA, a data engineer, or a developer interested in the new performance and reliability features in query processing and all the way down into the storage engine, join us to learn what's new. We guarantee you'll walk away with new ideas!

We’ll recap the key features of SQL Server 2025 and talk about how advanced vector extensions in AMDs processor boost the performance of your database. This session will show how SQL Server 2025 and AMD provides the services you need to start quickly to build AI applications securely delivering a trusted foundation for today's data.