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The Roadmap for One SQL: Edge to PaaS to SaaS
A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Data-Driven Culture
Turning insights into action: The art of data communication
Understanding DAX Pillars
Unlocking The Value Of AI For Your Business - Where To Start
Becoming a Master Builder: Creating the Ultimate BI Developer Toolbox
What we Learned Migrating a Financial Giant from Hudi to Delta (and Why Iceberg was in the Mix)
Adapting to Fabric: A SQL Server Practitioner’s Path Forward
Fabric Power Hour
Performance Tuning: How Query Store Saves Your Server (and Your Sleep)
First Steps in DAX Optimization
20 Years of the Cloud: What Changed, What Didn’t, and What’s Next
Dev-Prod Demon Hunters: Finding the Real Cause of Production Slowness
From Individual Contributor to Data Leader: The Skills No One Teaches
From Load to Logic: Designing for Performance in Microsoft Fabric Warehouses
Mastering AI in Power BI
Unlocking High-Performance Teams
From Vectors to Agents: Building AI-Powered Solutions with Microsoft SQL - Training Day
42 TSQL Functions
5 Design Patterns for Better Looking Reports
7 Simple Strategies to Combat Imposter Syndrome
A Deep Dive into Table Partitioning – Part 1: Mechanics and Performance
A Deep Dive into Table Partitioning – Part 2: Design, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting
A Whirlwind Tour of the Fabric Capacity Metrics App
Advancing the Role of SQL Server DBA in the Era of AI: Becoming an Azure SQL DBA - Part1
AgentBricks vs Mosaic AI
AI Beyond the Hype; Practical Solutions for Real Businesses
AI-Augmented Query Optimization: SQL Server 2025 Meets Fabric Self-Healing Data Platform
AI-Powered SQL Server: Transforming Database Management with AWS Kiro and MCP
All about Indexes - Part 1
All about Indexes - Part 2
Amplify Your Experience: How to Start Writing and Speaking
An Apache Spark query's journey through the layers of Microsoft Fabric
Ask Me Anything: Migrating On-Prem SQL Server to Azure SQL – Real-World Experience
An introduction to Extended Events
An Introduction to the Snowflake Data Platform
Architecting AI Workloads with Cosmos DB: Azure vs Fabric
Architecting Intelligence: What Powers SQL Copilots
Aren’t we all tired of AI?
Ask us anything - Panel session with SQL LT
Automating SQL Server Management with GitHub Actions and PowerShell
Autonomous DBOps: Agentic AI for Maintaining SQL Server Databases
Azure SQL MI Unleashed: Inside the Next‑Gen GP & What’s Coming Next
Batteries included: SQL DevOps with SQL projects
Best Practices for Sharing Power BI Content with External Users
Best Practices for SQL Database Backup Configuration, Immutability, and Ransomware Protection
Beyond “Set and Forget”: Mastering the Ola Hallengren Maintenance Solution
Beyond Chatbots: Leveraging AI for Unstructured Data Processing
Beyond Traditional DBA Practices - Transforming T-SQL Script Expertise into AI Agents
Breaking the Default: SQL Server High Availability on Windows and Linux
Build It Right: Real-World Microsoft Fabric Pipelines with Metadata & Medallion Architecture
Build Secure, Scalable AI Applications with Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
Building Context, Not Vibes Pratical AI Augmented Data Engineering - Part 1
Building Context, Not Vibes Pratical AI Augmented Data Engineering (Part 2)
Apache Iceberg Data Analytics with Python
Building event-driven apps usinng real-time change event streams in SQL
Building Natural Language Querying into SQL Server Applications
Building Resilient SQL Server HA/DR in a Multi-Cloud World
Building Scalable Data Warehouses with Microsoft Fabric:
Building the Backbone of Agentic AI: A Unified Data Strategy with Microsoft Fabric
Challenging the Norm: An Agile Approach to Data Visualization
Choosing the Right Incremental Load Strategy in Fabric
Choosing the Right Storage Mode: Import, Direct Lake, DirectQuery & Hybrid
CI/CD in PowerBI: For when just hitting publish isn't good enough
Cloud Migration Without the Chaos: A Practical Guide with Redgate Monitor
Code Club Experience
Code Your Own Sports Analytics Dashboard
Contained Availability Groups – Best Practices from Real-World Projects
Copilot in Fabric - Explained for the Administrator!
Copilots, Chaos and Control: Getting Real About AI Productivity
Cost Effective In-Memory Analytics at Scale: Using DuckDB as Application-Layer Offload
Crafting a Personal Brand: Your Career Deserves More Than Just a CV
Creative GitHub Strategies for the Modern Database Professional
Cross-Stitch Your Career: Level Up from DBA to Fabric Administrator
Data Literacy: Navigating Your Way to Data-Driven Success!
Data Modelling for AI-Driven BI
Data Storytelling in Power BI: From Reports to Narratives
Databricks Asset Bundles: Putting the Engineering into Data Engineering
Databricks vs Fabric: When to choose, when to combine, and why it’s confusing
DAX Optimization - Part 1
DaxLib.SVG: A DAX UDF Library for creating SVGs
DBA Horror Stories and Practical Advice for Surviving Your Worst Day
dbatools - Wheel of Fortune
DeepSQL: How To Discover SQL Server Internals
Design essentials for Power BI developer
Dive into the engines that power Fabric Real-Time Intelligence
Dredging the Data Lake: Empowering Modern Data Analytics with AI
Elevate SQL development with VS Code, GitHub Copilot and Microsoft SQL drivers
Ethos, Pathos & Logos: Aristotle’s Lesson for Ethical Data Design
Everything you need to know about Temporal Tables
Evolution of User-Defined Functions in Microsoft SQL Server
Fabric + Databricks + Power BI: Making the Integration Actually Work
Fabric FinOps - Cost Optimization for Fabric
Fabric for SQL Server Devs and DBAs
From “Who Wrote This ETL?” to Databricks, Claude Saves the Day via Microsoft Foundry
From Chaos to Control: Orchestrating Lakehouse Workloads in Microsoft Fabric Part 1
From Chaos to Control: Orchestrating Lakehouse Workloads in Microsoft Fabric Part 2
From Commit to Production: Chapter one of your End-to-End CI/CD Story for Microsoft Fabric with ADO
From Commit to Production: Chapter two of your End-to-End CI/CD Story for Microsoft Fabric with ADO
From Dashboards to Dialogue: Transforming BI at Lloyds Banking Group with Power BI Copilot
Future-Proofing SQL Server: High Availability, Performance, and Key Innovations from 2022 to 2025
Get Creative with Power BI: Make these core visuals shine!
Getting Started with Vibe Engineering: Playing with Fire
HA/DR in Action: Application Resiliency with SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL
Hyperscale - the SQL Database for All Workloads
Improve your SQL database design with Copilot and static code analysis
Ingesting API data with Python Notebooks
Inside SQL Server 2025 Part 1
Inside SQL Server 2025 Part 2
Intelligent Query Processing: From Insight to Impact
Introducing DAX user-defined functions
Introduction to Microsoft Fabric Variable Library: Simplifying CI/CD Automation
JSON fundamentals for SQL pros
Lessons from large-scale Fabric deployment
Mastering Power BI Documentation System – Not Just an Afterthought
Mastering Spark Notebooks and Capacity Optimization in Microsoft Fabric
MCP Servers For Conversational BI
Medallion architecture
Microsoft Fabric and the mess of SharePoint
Microsoft Fabric, Lakehouses and Power BI: A guide for BI developers
My Real-Time Intelligence Journey: From Power BI Data Visualization to Streaming Data
Navigating SQL Server to PostgreSQL Migrations and How DBAs Keep Their Sanity
New features in SQL Server 2025
New in Microsoft Fabric: The Warehouse and the SQL Analytics Endpoint
New in modern Developer Experiences in SQL
Next-Level BI Development: AI-Driven Semantic Models in Power BI
No Code Agents with AgentBricks
OneLake Security - Centralized Data Security for Microsoft Fabric (Part 1)
OneLake Security - Centralized Data Security for Microsoft Fabric (Part 2)
Optimized Locking in SQL Server 2025: Internals, Contention, and Concurrency
Optimizing Your Power BI Data for AI
Panel Debate: Real-World Microsoft Fabric Administration - Lessons from the Trenches
PBI Financial Modelling Masterclass - Part 1 PL/BS
PBI Financial Modelling Masterclass – Part 2 AP/AR
People first: building strong, inclusive data teams that actually deliver
Performance monitoring for SQL, from ground to cloud
Performance tuning Dataflows Gen2
Pokémon Battle, Choose Your Index: You Can’t Have Them All
Power BI Settings That Are Secretly Ruining Your Reports
Prepare Your Power BI Semantic Model for AI-Ready Analytics
Programmatic Report and Model Changes with Python
Python In Microsoft Fabric: Execution Options And Scaling
Query Performance Enhancements in SQL Server 2025
Query Store Basics: A DBA’s Best Friend
Query Tuning Internals for the Advanced SQL Developer - Part 1
Questioning My SQL Server Faith… So You Don’t Have To
Real World Modernization of Complex SQL Workloads with Azure SQL - Part 1
Real-Time Intelligence Meets Location: How Maps in Microsoft Fabric Transform Your Analytics
Responsible AI in Practice for the Microsoft Data Platform
Running Code Clubs
Secrets of Power BI Performance Analyzer
Semantic Bridge: Importing Databricks Metric Views into Tabular semantic models
Semantic Models Comes First: Managing Models for Growth and Self-Service
Shine bright like a star, without burning out!
Simplify management of hybrid and multi-cloud SQL Server using Azure Arc
Soft Skills for Success
Spark Unplugged: How In-Process Analytics Is Making Distributed Computing An Expensive Investment
Speaker Hacks for Nervous Nerds (From a Nerd Who Talks a Lot)
SQL + AI: Building Agentic Apps with SQL MCP Server + AI Foundry
SQL 2025, SSMS 22 and Fabric. And they mirrored happily ever after?
SQL and AI for the rest of us
SQL vs. Fabric? Why Not Both! A Practical and Entertaining Guide for All
SQL database in Fabric Scenarios and Solutions
SQL database in Fabric: The unified database for AI apps and analytics
SQL For Everything: Structure, Unstructured, SQLServer, Onelake
SQL Injection – The Old Dog of Data Security
SQL Performance Supercharged: Strategies for Azure SQL Performance and Cost Optimization - Part 1
Choose the Right Azure Virtual Machines to Improve SQL Query Throughput
Revolutionizing Database Performance: Deep Dive into SQL InMemory Technology
SQL Server migration & modernization powered by generative AI
SQL Server Versioning Explained
SSMS 22 Unlocked: Features You’ve Been Waiting For
Stay in Control with AI: AI Drafted Data Models and Templates, Deterministic Delivery
In Control of Your Database: Design, Code, Version, Test, and Deploy Without the Firefighting
Synchronous Availability Groups Don’t Always Mean Zero Data Loss
Talk to Your Data: The Future of Data Interaction with AI
Tech's Secret Sauce: The Power of Neurodiversity
The good, the bad, the ugly with Power BI agentic development
The Hero’s Journey: Mastering Your New DBA Role
The Latest Performance Improvements in Azure SQL Database, Managed Instance, and SQL Server 2025
The Power of F2: What You Can (and Can’t) Do with Microsoft Fabric’s Smallest Capacity
Through the Hype: Fabric in the Real World
TMDL in Action: Optimizing Power BI Models with Advanced Scripting
dbt → Cube.js → Superset: Automating Semantic Layer & BI Sync
Turning Data Into Stories People Remember
Under the Hood of Transparent Data Encryption: Securing Data at Rest in Azure SQL and SQL Server
Understanding CALCULATE, the queen of all DAX functions - Part 1
Unit Testing & Code Style: Enhancing Database Code Quality with SQLCop and tSQLt
Meeting DBAs Where You Are: Simplifying SQL Server Migration with SSMS and Azure Arc
Unlock Unity Catalog: Practical Strategies for Secure, Scalable Data Management
Unlocking AI Potential: Leveraging Your Data with Microsoft Fabric
Untangling dbt Dependencies with Knowledge Graphs and AI
User Data Functions: Development, Testing, and Integration
Using AI for Performance Tuning in SQL 2025
Vectors & AI: The Twin Engines of SQL Server 2025
Vibe modelling with Tabular Editor 3
Vibe-coding for the data professional
Watch Brent Tune a Query in SQL Server 2025
What an Automation Nerd Learnt by Automating Their Home (Besides Annoying Their Family)
What you can do to protect your SQL Server and why it matters
What's new in Columnstore for SQL Server 2022/2025
What's new in Mirroring SQL to Fabric: The Fast Track to Modern Data Integration & Analytics
What's new in the SQL core engine
When AI meets your database: Securing sensitive data in Azure SQL in an AI-driven world
When Good Queries Go Bad: Fixing Performance with Query Store
Will AI Replace Us or Raise Us? The New Landscape for Data Professionals and Consultants
Window functions in SQL Server - brush up your skills
Wireframe to Report: A Practical Power BI design workflow
Write it Back: Enhancing Power BI with Data Writebacks and Translytical Workflows
Your MSSQL environment is vulnerable and I can prove it
DAX Optimization - Part 2
Query Tuning Telemetry for the Advanced SQL Developer - Part 2
SQL Performance Supercharged: Strategies for Azure SQL Performance and Cost Optimization - Part 2
Understanding CALCULATE, the queen of all DAX functions - Part 2
Advancing the Role of SQL Server DBA in the Era of AI: Becoming an Azure SQL DBA - Part2
Stop Firefighting! How to Beat the DBA Burnout Crisis
Free high performance migration to Fabric
Real World Modernization of Complex SQL Workloads with Azure SQL - Part 2
Amp Up Your SQL Server Infrastructure for AI
Microsoft SQL and AMD in the era of AI
Accelerate SQL Server Modernization to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with Agentic AI
AWS fundamentals for the accidental SQL Server DBA
Breaking the Monolith: Surviving Database Decomposition Without Losing Your Data (or Your Mind)
Deep dive into SQL HA/DR architectures on AWS
Mastering SQL Server on EC2 hands on workshop
Are Snapshots Backups? Revisiting Modern Data Protection for SQL Server
AWS Lightning talks
From Monolithic Databases to Distributed SQL - Running Active-Active Across Regions!
From Query Plans to Prompts: How AI Understands SQL Server Internals
How Formula 1 automated their SQL Server Database Ops & Health Checks on AWS, using AI Agents
The Right Database for the Right Job: A Practical Framework for Database Selection
Unblocking Cloud Database Journeys: Insights from AWS & Redgate
Building Multi-Region Distributed Databases: A Hands-On Workshop
Amazon RDS for SQL Server hands on workshop
Streamline SQL Server operations with Generative AI agents on AWS
Get the best of a Data Warehouse and a DataLake with an Iceberg Lakehouse
Beyond Caching: Building Low-Latency Data Layers for Modern Apps with Open Source In-Memory Database
Agentic AI and Your Data: Building Competitive Advantage
Hacking MSSQL on Cloud. All of them. How I became sysadmin on Azure, AWS, GCP and Alibaba.
Hosting SQL Server on AWS - What is the right choice for my workload?
No-Compromise Data Apps: Why Streamlit is the Missing Piece in Your Analytics Stack
Practical Data Modeling in Power BI: Beyond the Star Schema
Unlock Peak Performance: Mastering RDS SQL Server Optimisation, Migrations and Upgrades
Average Fail - Why Averages Can Be a Terrible Idea in Data Analysis
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