Microsoft sessions at PASS Summit 2014

Got SQL Server 2005 running on Windows Server 2003?  We have fantastic pre-con and general sessions to help you plan your upgrade and migration strategies.

Interested in the new Azure data services like Azure DocumentDB, Azure ML, and Azure Search?  We have awesome people lined up to give you all the details.

Want know the nitty-gritty about Azure SQL Database? We got you covered.

It is PASS Summit time and we are counting down the days. We have Microsoft experts from our Redmond campus, field experts flying in from Italy and the U.K., and we’re bringing customers to share their stories – just to name a few.  Check out the Microsoft sessions below and add them to your PASS Summit session builder along with great community sessions. 

7 Databases in 70 Minutes: A Primer for NoSQL in Azure, Lara Rubbelke and Karen Lopez

Analytics Platform System Deep Dive (APS), Paul Dyke

Analytics Platform System Overview (APS), Nicolle Whitman

Analyzing tweets with HDInsight, Excel and Power BI, Miguel Martinez and Sanjay Soni

Application Lifecycle Management for SQL Server database development, Lonny Bastien and Steven Green

Azure CAT: Azure Data Platform: Picking the right storage solution for the right problem, Kun Cheng, Rama Ramani, and Ewan Fairweather

Azure CAT: Azure SQL DB Performance Tuning & Troubleshooting, Sanjay Mishra, Kun Cheng, and Silvano Coriani

Azure CAT: Deep dive of Real world complex Azure data solutions: Lindsey Allen, and Rama Ramani

Azure CAT: Running your Line of Business application on Azure Virtual Machine Services, Juergen Thomas

Azure CAT: SQL Server 2014 Gems, Shep Sheppard

Azure CAT: SQL Server 2014 In-Memory Customer Deployments: Lessons Learned, Michael Weiner and Stephen Baron

Azure Search Deep Dive, Pablo Castro

Azure SQL Database Business Continuity and Auditing Deep Dive, Nadav Helfman and Sasha Nosov

Azure SQL Database Overview, Bill Gibson and Sanjay Nagamangalam

Azure SQL Database Performance and Scale Out Deep Dive, Torsten Garbs and Michael Ray

BI Power Hour, Matt Masson and Matthew Roche

Building a Big Data Predictive Application, Nishant Thacker and Karan Gulati

Built for Speed: Database Application Design for Performance, Pam Lahoud

ColumnStore Index: SQL Server 2014 and Beyond, Sunil Agarwal and Jamie Reding

Connecting SAP ERP and Microsoft BI Platform, Sanjay Soni

Data-tier Considerations of Cloud-based Modern Application Design, Scott Klein

Deep Dive into Power Query Formula Language, Matt Masson and Theresa Palmer-Boroski

Deploying Hadoop in a Hybrid Environment, Matt Winkler

Deployment and best practices for Power BI for Office 365, Miguel Llopis

End-to-End Demos with Power BI, Kasper de Jonge and Sanjay Soni

HBase: Building real-time big data apps in the cloud, Maxim Lukiyanov

Improve Availability using Online Operations in SQL Server 2014, Ajay Jagannathan and Ravinder Vuppula

In-Memory OLTP in SQL Server 2014: End-to-End Migration, George Li

Interactive Data Visualization with Power View, Will Thompson

Introducing Azure Machine Learning, Raymond Laghaeian

Introduction to Azure HDInsight and Visual Studio customizations, Matt Winkler

Just in Time Data Analytics with SQL Server 2014, Binh Cao and Tomas Polanco

Leveraging SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines Best Practices, Scott Klein

Life in the fast lane with Azure DocumentDB, Stephen Baron

Making the most of Azure Machine Learning end-to-end, Parmita Mehta

Managing 1 Million+ DBs-How Big Data is used to run SQL Azure, Conor Cunningham

Match the database to the data – from on prem to the cloud, Buck Woody

Microsoft Azure SQL Database – Resource Management, Mine Tokus

Migration and Deployment Principles for SQL Server in Azure VMs, Selcin Turkarslan

Polybase in the Modern Data Warehouse, Artin Avanes

Power BI Hybrid Data Access via Data Management Gateway, Luming Han and Mini Nair

Power View with Analysis Services Multidimensional Models, Kasper de Jonge

Real world Healthcare BI transformations in the cloud, Matt Smith and Michael Wilmot

SQL Server 2014 AlwaysOn (High Availability and Disaster Recovery), Luis Carlos Vargas Herring

SQL Server 2014 in-Memory OLTP – Memory/Storage Monitoring and Troubleshooting, Sunil Agarwal

SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP Query Processing, Jos de Bruijn

SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP Transaction Processing, Jos de Bruijn

SQL Server 2014: In-Memory Overview, Kevin Farlee

SQL Server Hybrid Features End to End, Xin Jin

SQL Server in Azure VM Roadmap, Luis Carlos Vargas Herring

To The Cloud, Infinity, & Beyond: Top 10 Lessons Learned at MSIT, Jimmy May

Upgrading and Migrating SQL Server, John Martin

What’s New in Microsoft Power Query for Excel, Miguel Llopis

Who Dunnit? A Walk Around the SQL Server 2014 Audit Feature, Timothy McAliley and Michael Ray

 

Still want more? No problem. Check back November 5th for additional sessions and speakers.

Only 28 More days until PASS Summit. You won’t want to miss it!