Priya Sathy, Bob Ward
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Join us for an in-depth session on the future of Microsoft SQL—from on-premises to Azure and into Microsoft Fabric. Discover our unified, AI-ready relational database that powers modernization and next-gen AI apps. See how SQL delivers consistency, performance, and innovation everywhere you need it!
Sudhir Kumar Raparla, Anitha Adusumilli
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Learn how Azure SQL gives you best price/performance with Azure benefits, flexible SKU configurations and how seamless SQL migration experience in Azure Arc puts you on fast-track migration journey to Azure SQL with evergreen assessments, best fit SKU recommendations and near zero‑downtime migrations. Learn how SSMA accelerates Oracle/Sybase to Azure SQL migrations with AI Code Conversion Copilot.
John Morehouse, Monica Morehouse (Rathbun)
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Everyone wants their database to go faster, whether it's shaving hours off your ETL process, taking minutes off the runtime for reports, or trimming milliseconds off a critical OLTP query. Every database professional must know where to look and how to tune, whether you have one SQL environment or thousands. In this full-day session, you'll learn how to take your performance tuning skills to the next level.
John Morehouse
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Updating data in SQL Server can lead to lock escalation, blocking, deadlocks, or slow performance if it isn't done correctly. The newly released optimized locking helps reduce these issues while improving concurrency. This session explores how it works—covering its architecture, implementation, and best practices to maximize performance to help reduce those dreaded locking issues!
Aditya Badramraju, Arvind Shyamsundar
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Azure SQL Database Hyperscale eliminates the practical limits traditionally seen in cloud databases to support modern AI apps. Join us as we cover features like native vector indexes, semantic search, and low-latency RAG. We’ll show how Azure SQL Database Hyperscale can scale securely with up to 30 replicas and 150MBps log speed. We’ll show how to invoke models via T-SQL and Microsoft Foundry to modernize your mission-critical workloads.
Matthias Nohl
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Should you run your analytics workloads in Azure SQL or Fabric SQL? This session compares architecture, performance, cost, and integration. Learn where each platform shines — from dev to operational reporting — and get a decision framework to choose the right SQL engine for your scenario.
Javier Villegas, Gonzalo Bissio
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Explore SQL Server 2025’s new dev features -JSON type, Regular Expressions, and Change Event Streaming for real-time pipelines. See how REST API and Data API Builder turn your data into secure, high-performance APIs. Packed with demos, this session is perfect for developers, DBAs, and architects
Danny Kruge
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. In the evolving world of data, the ability to interact with your datasets and databases using natural language is a game-changer. This session will introduce you to the power of Azure OpenAI, Azure SQL, and Microsoft Fabric, showing you how to break down barriers that have traditionally required.
Dinakar Nethi, Rajesh Setlem
This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Learn best practices for Azure SQL Database backup configuration and ransomware protection. Explore PITR and LTR strategies, backup immutability, and deletion safeguards to ensure compliance and resilience. Gain actionable insights to secure data, prevent tampering, and maintain business continuity.
Monica Morehouse (Rathbun)
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. I rely on Query Store every day—it lets me uncover performance issues in minutes, even without knowing the app code. If you want real insight into plan choices, regressions, and control over execution plans, you need to turn it on. Learn how to configure it, use its DMVs, spot plan changes fast, and finally answer, “Why was my query slow?”
John Morehouse
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Curious about the differences between Azure SQL Database and SQL database in Fabric? This session is perfect for developers and DBAs looking to understand the core architecture differences of these two platforms. Whether you’re optimizing an existing solution or planning your next project, this session will help you make informed decisions & maximize the value of these services.
Meagan Longoria, Justin Cunningham
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Explore how Mirroring for SQL Server in Fabric really works: what happens on the source database, how data lands in OneLake, data retention policies, monitoring and logging, configuration of replicated objects, and which scenarios require restarting replication.
Lance Wright, Anitha Adusumilli
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Managing SQL performance across your environments can be complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Introducing a fully managed performance monitoring solution that provides near real-time data, scales effortlessly, and delivers actionable insights for all workloads on Azure SQL and SQL Server. You’ll see just how fast and easy it is to monitor SQL performance, without any operational overhead.
Davide Mauri
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Future applications will combine intuitive UI with powerful AI interactions, enabling AI agents to on our behalf for the best experience. At the heart of this transformation is AI Foundry. In this session, we’ll explore how to integrate AI Foundry with Azure SQL, from architecture deep dive through security considerations, to give you the best knowledge to bring your solutions to the next level.
David Pless
This session is primarily about governance & security within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. When selecting a virtual machine to host your SQL Server workload in Azure, you need to choose a VM size that provides optimal performance and fits your organization’s budget. In this session, we will cover topics such as the different VM types that are appropriate for SQL workloads, configuring storage, and features unique to Azure that can help boost your performance without breaking the bank.
Omer Colakoglu
This session is primarily about ai & agents within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. This session demonstrates how to build an AutoML-driven pipeline inside Azure SQL to process and optimize vector data. Learn how to automatically profile datasets, select the best embedding model and parameters, and improve retrieval accuracy using adaptive evaluation and feedback loops.
karen Lopez
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Turn data governance into a productivity boost for Azure SQL Database, Fabric SQL Database, and Fabric Data Warehouse architectures and engineering. Gain efficiency and confidence in every deployment. Learn how cataloging, classification, lineage, and quality workflows integrate with databases and pipelines to improve trust, and enable secure, compliant data for engineering teams.
Idris Motiwala, Ajay Jagannathan
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. As organizations navigate the era of generative AI, advanced analytics, and rapid digital transformation, the ability to extract timely business insights is more critical than ever. This session deep dives into SQL Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric that enables organizations with near real-time data replication from source SQL databases to OneLake, all without building intricate ETL processes.
Dimitri Furman, Derek Wilson
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. With all the news about developer and AI features in SQL, you might wonder if we had any time to invest in the RDBMS core. We certainly did! If you are a DBA, a data engineer, or a developer interested in the new performance and reliability features in query processing and all the way down into the storage engine, join us to learn what's new. We guarantee you'll walk away with new ideas!
Kelly Broekstra, Warwick Rudd
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Do you currently use SQL Server Express or Standard Edition to support third-party applications? Discover how moving to Azure SQL Database can reduce costs and administrative overhead. This session will cover the pros and cons. We’ll walk through real demos of ongoing management, and engage in an interactive discussion to help you decide if Azure SQL DB is right for your environment.
Bob Ward
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. In today’s AI-driven landscape, trust underpins innovation. Organizations must deliver solutions while ensuring security, compliance, and data integrity. Get grounded in AI fundamentals, how AI “works”, understand top AI trust challenges, and learn practical solutions. This session shows how tools like GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, Azure services, and Microsoft SQL help you build trustworthy AI applications with your data that scale from on premises to cloud and Microsoft Fabric.
Rob Carrol
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-gen General Purpose delivers faster performance, greater scalability, and simplified management. In this session, learn how we migrated 1,000+ SQL Server databases at scale with near-zero downtime, and how Azure Arc’s new migration experience streamlines assessment, replication, monitoring, and cutover, making your SQL Server migrations smooth and predictable.
Pam Lahoud, Sukhwant Kaur
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. SQL database in Fabric is simple, autonomous, and optimized for AI—but what does that mean for you and your organization? Join us to learn about real-world use cases from customers who are already using Fabric databases to drive innovation. Discover how they are building smarter, faster solutions in the age of AI—reducing complexity, accelerating time to value, and unlocking new opportunities.
Vladimir Ivanovic
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. If you plan to migrate and modernize your SQL workloads in the cloud, Azure SQL Managed Instance (SQL MI) is your best choice - now reimagined for speed, scale, and flexibility. In this session we will deep‑dive into the Next‑Gen SQL MI GP architecture and how it delivers faster performance, greater scalability and smarter resource tuning, making it a great choice for your key database workloads.
Lance Wright, Anitha Adusumilli
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Managing SQL Server in hybrid and multi-cloud environments can be challenging. Azure Arc streamlines SQL Server operations across on-prem, edge, and even other public clouds. Discover how to use built-in capabilities like best practices assessment, performance monitoring, and migration tools to centralize insights, simplify daily operations, and get ready for migration to Azure.
Naveen Samba, Mukesh Kumar
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Discover how the Azure SQL PG Engineering team tackles complex, mission-critical performance challenges across Azure SQL DB and Managed Instance. Through real customer cases and practical demos, learn sharp diagnostic techniques, hidden optimization opportunities, and the most common pitfalls to avoid when tuning workloads pre- or post-migration.
Shoham Dasgupta
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. As AI becomes embedded in every application, protecting sensitive data in Azure SQL is vital. This session explores how to secure sensitive data from AI agents and design a defense-in-depth model using Azure SQL's existing security stack - modern authentication, granular access control, data protection, monitoring, auditing, and more. Learn how to confidently use Azure SQL to power AI applications.
Alp Akdeniz, Khaled Ahmed
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. Microsoft Fabric has fundamentally changed how enterprises store, model, and analyze data — but many organizations still struggle to turn that data into real-time operational and financial decisions. In this session, we will explore how to design an enterprise-grade planning and forecasting architecture natively on Microsoft Fabric, using Azure SQL, Power BI, and modern data pipelines to enable real-time write-back, scenario modeling, and governed collaboration across large organizations. Attendees will learn how to: - Architect a Fabric-native planning environment that supports concurrent users, auditability, and data integrity - Design write-enabled analytical models using Azure SQL, Fabric Warehouses, and Power BI - Implement scenario modeling, forecasting, and what-if analysis directly on enterprise data - Apply governance, security, and performance best practices for mission-critical workloads - Avoid common pitfalls that cause Fabric-based planning solutions to fail at scale The session will include a live technical walkthrough of how data moves from Fabric into planning and forecasting workflows, how user inputs are written back securely, and how changes propagate through enterprise-grade models in real time. Whether you are modernizing an FP&A platform, enabling operational planning, or deploying large-scale analytics on Fabric, this session will provide practical patterns and architecture that you can apply immediately inside your own Microsoft environment.
Jes Chapman
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. See how organizations are adopting Azure SQL Database Hyperscale for new and growing workloads. We’ll walk through real implementations—including scaling from zero to hundreds of databases— to learn what DBAs and devs learned along the way, and show demos of the tools and features that made those deployments successful.
Jeff Taylor
This session is primarily about sql server & databases within the Microsoft Fabric and SQL ecosystem. New to Fabric - or just new to Databases in Fabric? See how SQL database in Fabric merges OLTP and analytics workloads into one cloud-native solution. Learn how it replicates data to OneLake, supports familiar tools, and simplifies architecture—boosting insights without added complexity.

