22-25 April 2026 
Dennes Torres
Dennes is a DBA and Data Platform MVP (2020-2023) living in Malta who loves Data Platform, including Azure Data Platform, Microsoft Fabric, SQL Server and recently got involved by Generative AI. In the past, he was married with software development, resulting in a total of more than 20 years of experience between Data Platform, cloud and software development. He moved to Malta after more than 10 years leading devSQL PASS Chapter in Rio de Janeiro and now is a member of the leadership team of MMDPUG PASS Chapter in Malta organizing meetings, events, and webcasts about Microsoft Data Platform. He is an MCT, MCSE in Data Platforms and BI, with more titles in software development. He can be found working for DTower Software and speaking in SQL Saturdays around Europe
Dennes Torres's Sessions
Data Virtualization and Data Lake using SQL Big Data Cluster (part 1)SQLBits 2020
In this session we will merge practice and theory, analyzing what is data virtualization and data lake, what their benefits and how to implement them using SQL Server 2019 Big Data Cluster
Data Virtualization and Data Lake using SQL Big Data Cluster (part 2)SQLBits 2020
In this session we will merge practice and theory, analyzing what is data virtualization and data lake, what their benefits and how to implement them using SQL Server 2019 Big Data Cluster
Monitoring and Building Performance Baselines for Azure SQL with Log AnalyticsSQLBits 2022
Log Analytics provides a great way to create the baselines we always promise to do tomorrow
Power BI Goals: Managing KPI's with Power BISQLBits 2022
Goals add KPI's to Power BI in a great way
Using Delta Lake with SynapseSQLBits 2022
Delta Lake and Synapse Serverless are a great couple
Data Virtualization and Data Lake using SQL Big Data Cluster (part 1)SQLBits 2020
In this session we will merge practice and theory, analyzing what is data virtualization and data lake, what their benefits and how to implement them using SQL Server 2019 Big Data Cluster
Data Virtualization and Data Lake using SQL Big Data Cluster (part 2)SQLBits 2020
In this session we will merge practice and theory, analyzing what is data virtualization and data lake, what their benefits and how to implement them using SQL Server 2019 Big Data Cluster