Join us at SQL Bits 2019 February 27-March 2 in Manchester, UK!
Data never rests, nor does the data platform. It keeps evolving as more organizations turn to data driven insights to stay ahead and prepare for the future.
Be a part of the largest SQL Server professional gathering in Europe at SQL Bits 2019. At SQL Bits, you have the unique opportunity to meet with community leaders sharing their real world experience and Microsoft product teams providing deep insights into Microsoft data solutions.
For those attending this year, we’ve put together a quick guide below on some of the Data and AI sessions you can look forward to. Can’t wait until SQL Bits? Check out the conference sessions to get a taste of what you won’t want to miss at SQL Bits 2019.
SQL Bits is also running a promotion right now to share their love for data. Save 50% when you add an extra day using the code: welovedata
Keynote
Friday, March 1
Speaker: Buck Woody and Bob Ward
In today’s world, the growth of data is ushering in an era of rapid innovation. Microsoft’s goal is to bring the best hybrid data platform to help data professionals in building a data infrastructure that supports their organization now and into the future. Join Buck Woody, Bob Ward, Anna Thomas, Alain Dormehl, and Adam Saxton as they demonstrate the latest advances from Microsoft across SQL Server, Azure Data Services, Business Analytics, and AI.
Pre-conference activities (training days)
Wednesday, February 27
Modernize your database with SQL Server 2019
Speaker: Bob Ward
Earlier in September, we announced SQL Server 2019 preview, the first release of SQL Server to create a unified data platform by packaging Apache SparkTM and Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) together with SQL Server as a single, integrated solution. In this session, come join us for a deep dive into SQL Server 2019.
Building a modern database architecture with Azure
Speaker: Jes Borland
This session will review the key foundations of Azure and introduce various Azure database options like SQL Server MI, Azure SQL DB, Cosmos DB, etc.
Thursday, February 28
Microsoft SQL Server Big Data Clusters architecture
Speaker: Buck Woody
This session is a deep dive into the concepts of big data analytics and data virtualization in SQL Server 2019. You will also learn about the architecture to enable machine learning to train your models within SQL Server 2019.
Data science from scratch with Azure Machine Learning
Speaker: Mithun Prasad
This will be a crash course to create data science solutions and apply machine learning algorithms to real world scenarios.
Speaker: Theo van Kraay
This pre-conference session will provide in-depth training on Azure Cosmos DB. At the end of the training, you will be equipped to build your applications on Cosmos DB.
Deep dive into Azure Data Factory with SSIS
Speaker: Sandy Winarko
This session will focus on modernizing your extract, transform, and load (ETL) workloads with a deeper integration of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in Azure Data Factory (ADF).
Highlighted sessions during the conference March 1st and 2nd
Speakers: Bob Ward, Buck Woody, Anna Thomas
Come learn all the new capabilities of SQL Server 2019 directly from the Microsoft engineering team.
What’s New – Query Performance Insights
Speaker: Pedro Lopes
Come and be a rockstar at troubleshooting query performance with all the latest innovations in intelligent query processing.
Speaker: Kevin Farlee
In this session you’ll learn how the Hyperscale service tier in Azure SQL DB removes many of the practical limits traditionally seen in cloud.
A dive into the architecture that is Azure SQL DW Gen2. How does it work?
Speaker: Philip Beaumont, Neil Millington
Come learn how you can turbocharge your query performance and concurrency with a fully managed cloud data warehouse.
Getting intimate with the Power BI desktop
Speaker: Patrick LeBlanc, Adam Saxton
Join us in this session, where we will dive deep into the Power BI desktop.
Enterprise BI with Power BI Premium and SSAS
Speaker: Christian Wade
Join the two-part series to learn about the new features landing in SQL Server Analysis services and also learn how to use Power BI premium to create semantic models.
There are over 44 sessions from Microsoft data platform speakers, and we invite you to come hear from Microsoft and community experts at SQL Bits 2019.
