
Magnus Ahlkvist
Magnus works as an independent SQL Server consultant at his company Transmokopter SQL AB, with everything from on-premise to cloud databases, from database design and T-SQL programming to infrastructure planning and administration, from transaction intensive databases to data warehousing workloads.
When paid work stops, community work starts. Magnus is a long time co-leader for SQL Server User Group Sweden, he's organising SQL Friday every Friday noon and he's speaking and volunteering on data events, small and large. In October 2020, Magnus was awarded the Microsoft Data Platform MVP award.
Magnus Ahlkvist's Sessions
An introduction to SQL Server database projectsSQLBits 2026
Visual Studio database projects have existed for a long time, but they are widely under-used. This session will get you started and help you avoid a few pit-falls.
Everything you need to know about Temporal TablesSQLBits 2026
Temporal tables in SQL Server are used to save versions of data rows in a table. The built-in functionality replaces complicated application code for versioning and the automated timestamps can be used to load SCD type 2 dimensions in a warehouse.
Get Started with tSQLtSQLBits 2026
Unit testing of application code is obvious for most applications developers. Why is it not as wide spread for database objects such as schemas, stored procedures and functions? In this session you will get started with the tSQLt unit testing framework.
Are you drunk SQL Server? How do you come up with these strange rowcount estimations?SQLBits 2022
Cardinality estimation war stories