22-25 April 2026 Mike Diehl
Mike Diehl is the practice lead for Data Engineering and Business Intelligence at Imaginet Resources, a Microsoft partner with offices in Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada) and Dallas, Texas. Mike has over 20 years of experience using Microsoft database technologies and is an expert in Agile Analytics and Microsoft Azure DevOps.
Mike has spoken many regional, national, and international SQL events over his long career, including the PASS Summit in Seattle Washington, and at various SQL Saturday events across Canada and the USA, and other development conferences in Canada.
Mike Diehl's Sessions
Azure Data Factory Metadata-Driven ETL PatternsSQLBits 2022
How to build simple yet comprehensive and extensible ETL pipelines in Azure Data Factory that are driven by tasks in a database table.
Azure DevOps Release Pipelines for SQL Databases, Azure Data Factories, and Analysis ModelsSQLBits 2022
How to deploy SQL databases, data factories, and tabular data models to Azure using Azure DevOps release pipelines.
How to Support SQL Unit Testing with tSQLt, SSDT, and Azure DevOpsSQLBits 2022
Use SSDT database projects with tSQLt and execute unit tests in Azure DevOps Build pipelines
Untangling the Spaghetti: Patterns and Anti-Patterns in SQL DevelopmentSQLBits 2022
Patterns and Anti-Patterns in SQL development that reduces coupling and increases cohesion
Using SQL Database Projects in SQL Server Data ToolsSQLBits 2022
Learn how to properly use SSDT database projects to manage schema in source control systems and deploy to dev, test, and prod environments.