Fabiano Amorim

Fabiano Amorim is a Microsoft Data Platform most valuable professional (MVP) since 2011. With over two decades of experience, Fabiano is well known in the database community for his performance tuning abilities and the many conference speaking engagements around the world. He writes articles for Simple-Talk (https://www.simple-talk.com/author/fabiano-amorim/) and his blog is on http://blogfabiano.com.

Sessions for 2026

Future-Proofing SQL Server: High Availability, Performance, and Key Innovations from 2022 to 2025

Join this session to explore key advancements in SQL Server 2022 and a preview of 2025, including Contained AGs, Distributed AG enhancements, and PSP Optimization—plus practical strategies to boost reliability, performance, and readiness for the future!

Your MSSQL environment is vulnerable and I can prove it

SQL Server environments are often assumed to be secure by default. This session challenges that belief by demonstrating how a low-privileged login can be leveraged to compromise an entire MSSQL environment. Using real-world scenarios, I’ll show how design flaws and overlooked features enable privilege escalation, data exposure, and full administrative control and how to prevent it.

Previous Sessions

Man vs Machine: Adaptive query processing and auto tuning

Query optimizer is getting smart, computers are taking DBAs jobs. In this session MVP Fabiano Amorim will talk about new “automatic” optimizations on SQL 2017. Adaptive query processing, auto tuning and few other features added into the product.