Conor has been working on building database engines for 25 years at Microsoft. He has worked on features such as the Query Store, Table Partitioning, Window Functions, PIVOT/UNPIVOT, DMVs, and many others. Conor served as the Breadth Architect for shipping SQL Server 2016, 2017 and 2019 and still serves as an architect across the engine on challenging architectural issues. Conor is based in Austin, Texas (USA) and also serves as the Engineering Site Leader as we build a new engineering site there. His team there recently delivered a number of T-SQL language extensions into SQL Server 2022 and SQL Azure as well as doing the AVX-512 performance improvements that shipped in SQL Server 2022. Currently he is working on Synapse Data Warehouse and future database architectures.

Conor Cunningham's Sessions

Saturday Keynote: Inside SQL Server 2012’s ColumnStore IndexSQLBits 2012

This talk will describe how the new ColumnStore index technology in SQL Server 2012 makes queries go faster. Covering details of the storage and execution model, how this model interacts with modern CPUs to deliver significant performance benefits.

Saturday Keynote: Inside SQL Server 2012’s ColumnStore IndexSQLBits 2012

This talk will describe how the new ColumnStore index technology in SQL Server 2012 makes queries go faster. Covering details of the storage and execution model, how this model interacts with modern CPUs to deliver significant performance benefits.

Saturday Keynote: Inside SQL Server 2012’s ColumnStore IndexSQLBits 2012

This talk will describe how the new ColumnStore index technology in SQL Server 2012 makes queries go faster. Covering details of the storage and execution model, how this model interacts with modern CPUs to deliver significant performance benefits.

Saturday Keynote: Inside SQL Server 2012’s ColumnStore IndexSQLBits 2012

This talk will describe how the new ColumnStore index technology in SQL Server 2012 makes queries go faster. Covering details of the storage and execution model, how this model interacts with modern CPUs to deliver significant performance benefits.

Distributed Query Deep DiveSQLBits 2012

This talk will cover how the distributed query feature in SQL Server works, end-to-end. Topics include the query model, metadata, query optimization, execution, distributed transactions, and scale-out scenarios via Distributed Partitioned Views(DPV)

Update Queries-Deep DiveSQLBits 2011

Ever wanted to know exactly what is happening underneath the covers in your queries. Let me show you.

Update Queries-Deep DiveSQLBits 2011

Ever wanted to know exactly what is happening underneath the covers in your queries. Let me show you.

Update Queries-Deep DiveSQLBits 2011

Ever wanted to know exactly what is happening underneath the covers in your queries. Let me show you.

Update Queries-Deep DiveSQLBits 2011

Ever wanted to know exactly what is happening underneath the covers in your queries. Let me show you.

Inside the SQL Server Query OptimizerSQLBits 2010

Understand the Query Optimiser from the man who knows!