22-25 April 2026

Hasan Savran

Hasan is an expert in Azure Cosmos DB and has been honored as a Data Platform MVP by Microsoft. He is the proprietor of SavranWeb Consulting and holds the position of Senior Business Intelligence Manager at Progressive Insurance. His work involves designing advanced business solutions with the newest technologies in the web and databases. Hasan is a seasoned professional with more than two decades of experience in software as a developer, architect, and manager. He is a global conference speaker and enjoys blogging about SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, C#, and front-end development.

Hasan Savran's Sessions

Cost cutting strategies for Azure Cosmos DBSQLBits 2022

Your Azure Cosmos DB solution's performance and bill depends on partitioning and indexing. Please join me as I share how partitioning and indexing works in Azure Cosmos DB

Performance tuning for Azure Cosmos DBSQLBits 2022

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed service with excellent features and settings. Please join me to learn how to use some of these settings that can help you with your Cosmos DB bill and performance.

Starting with Azure SQL Edge on Raspberry PiSQLBits 2022

Azure SQL Edge is the latest member of SQL Server family. You need to be familiar with different technologies to make it work. This session will focus on all the technologies you need to know to make SQL Edge work.

Ways to connect Azure Cosmos DB and cache dataSQLBits 2022

This session will focus mainly on Azure Cosmos DB connection types. Please join me to learn how to use each connection types in this 20 minute session.

What do Graph Tables bring to the tableSQLBits 2022

Data Modelling is art, and you are an artist. Your data models should be flexible, scalable, and open to new domains and relations. This is not an easy task specially in relational databases. Graph Database tables bring the flexibility we have been looking for long time. Please join me in this session to learn how to use Graph Database tables in SQL Server.

Azure Cosmos DB Partitioning 101SQLBits 2022

Please join me as I explain how partitioning works in Azure Cosmos DB.

Caching Data in SQL Server with In-Memory and JSONSQLBits 2022

Please join me as I explain how to create NoSQL caching engine in SQL Server

Graph Tables in ActionSQLBits 2022

Please join me as I explain how to use Graph Tables to make your data models flexible and scalable

Handling Hierarchial Data in SQL ServerSQLBits 2022

Please join me as I explain different ways to store hierarchical data in SQL Server.

New SQL Server Features for DevelopersSQLBits 2020

This session is for all developers who want to learn about the new Dev features and enhancements of SQL Server 2017 and 2019