Key Details What: Rhode Island SQL Server User Group.Where: Internet Rhode Island.When: Thursday, April 7th.Admission is free. Register on the Rhode Island SQL Server User Group meetup. What I’m Presenting 2022-04-06 — 19:00 – 20:00 PM EDT — Low-Code Machine Learning with Azure ML. Frequent readers here might remember this as a blog series that I did earlier…
Upcoming Events: Triad Microsoft Data Platform UG
Key Details What: Triad Microsoft Data Platform User Group.Where: The cloud.When: Thursday, February 24th.Admission is free. Register on Meetup. What I’m Presenting 2022-02-24 — 18:00 – 20:00 PM EST — Where We're Going, We Don't Need Servers. I enjoy giving this talk, as the serverless SQL pool is a thing of wonder. Sometimes, of course, that wonder…
Upcoming Events: Cloud Data Driven
Key Details What: Cloud Data Driven User Group.Where: The cloud.When: Thursday, February 24th.Admission is free. Register on the Cloud Data Driven meetup. What I’m Presenting 2022-02-24 — 12:00 – 13:15 PM EST — Locking Down Azure Synapse Analytics. This is a brand new talk. It's an area I've put a lot of focus into over the past few…
Upcoming Events: Edmonton Microsoft Data Professionals
Key Details What: Edmonton Microsoft Data Professionals user group.Where: Edmonton, Alberta by way of the internet.When: Thursday, January 20th.Admission is free. Register on the Edmonton Microsoft Data Professionals meetup. What I’m Presenting 2022-01-20 — 18:30 – 20:30 PM EST — Data Virtualization with PolyBase. This talk is still focused on SQL Server 2019, though with 2022 coming out…
Upcoming Events: Silicon Valley Microsoft Data Platform Meetup
Key Details What: Silicon Valley Microsoft Data Platform Meetup.Where: Sunnyvale CA, by way of the internet.When: Tuesday, January 18th.Admission is free. Register on the Silicon Valley Microsoft Data Platform meetup. What I’m Presenting 2022-01-18 — 10:00 – 11:00 PM EST — Saving Your Wallet from the Cloud. I just revamped this talk to make it fit in a…
In-Person Conference After-Action Report
I had a chance to go to three in-person conferences this year: SQL Saturday Orlando, Live! 360 (also in Orlando), and the Microsoft Azure + AI Conference in Las Vegas. Here are a few stray thoughts from these events. SQL Saturday Orlando was the SQL Saturday in the US last year. There were a few…
Upcoming Events: DEVintersection
Key Details What: SQL Server & Azure SQL Conference at DEVintersection.Where: Las Vegas, NV.When: Sunday, December 5th through Friday, December 10th.Admission is not free. Registration is available from the conference website. What I’m Presenting I don't have dates and times just yet, but here are the talks I'm going to present: 2021-12-07 -- 1:45 - 2:45…
Upcoming Events: Live! 360 Orlando
Key Details What: Live! 360Where: Orlando, Florida.When: November 15th through the 19th.This is a paid event. Registration is available from the Live! 360 website. What I’m Presenting 2021-11-18, 8:00 AM -- 9:15 AM EDT — Does This Look Weird to You? An Introduction to Anomaly Detection 2021-11-18 09:30 -- 10:45 AM EDT -- Getting Beyond…
Upcoming Events: Azure Community Conference
Key Details What: Azure Community ConferenceWhere: On the Internet, UTC+5.5 (India Standard Time).When: Friday, October 29th and Saturday, October 30th. Full-day, paid trainings on Sunday, October 31st.Admission is free. RSVP on the Azure Community Conference website. What I’m Presenting 7:30 AM — 8:30 AM EDT — Riding the Rails: Railway-Oriented Programming with F# This is…
Upcoming Events: SQL Saturday Orlando
Key Details What: SQL Saturday OrlandoWhere: Orlando, Florida. Oh my goodness, it's a real-life in-person event!When: Saturday, October 30th.Admission is free. RSVP on the SQL Saturday website. What I’m Presenting 9:00 - 10:00 AM EDT — Saving Your Wallet from the Cloud Not only is this an in-person event, it's also a brand new talk…
36 Chambers - The Legendary Journeys: Execution to the max! 