Virtual Symposium (SQL Server 2019) – 7 & 8 May 2020 (9:00 AM – 8:00 PM IST)

Time Slot(s)

May – 7

May – 8

9:00 AM – 9:15 AM (IST)

3:30 AM – 3:45 AM (UTC)

11:30 PM – 11:45 PM (EDT-1)

1:30 PM – 1:45 PM(AEST)

Join, Settle Down & Tech Check

Join, Settle Down & Tech Check

9:15 AM – 9:45 AM (IST)

3:45 AM – 4:15 AM (UTC)

11:45 PM – 12:15 AM (EDT)

1:45 PM – 2:15 PM(AEST)

Opening Note

Opening Note

9:45 AM – 11 AM (IST)

4:15 AM – 5:30 AM (UTC)

12:15 AM – 1:30 AM (EDT)

2:15 PM – 3:30 PM(AEST)

Session 1: SQL Server By Example
Speaker: Bob Ward (Principal Architect, Microsoft)

Session 8: 10 Reasons why Azure SQL is the best Database for Developers
Speaker: Davide Mauri (Senior Program Manager, Microsoft)

11 AM – 11:15 AM (IST)

5:30 AM – 5:45 AM (UTC)

1:30 AM – 1:45 AM (EDT)

3:30 PM – 3:45 PM(AEST)

Knowledge Partner Evangelism & Break

Knowledge Partner Evangelism & Break

11:15 AM – 11:45 AM (IST)

5:45 AM – 6:15 AM (UTC)

1:45 AM – 2:15 AM (EDT)

3:45 PM – 4:15 PM(AEST)

Session 2: Spotlight Session (Performance Tuning)
SQL Server 2019 Intelligent Query Processing – Part 1
Speaker: Amit Bansal (MVP, MCM, SQLMaestros)

Session 9: Spotlight Session (Performance Tuning)
SQL Server 2019 Intelligent Query Processing – Part 2
Speaker: Satya Ramesh (Sr. Consultant, SQLMaestros)

11:45 AM – 12 PM (IST)

6:15 AM – 6:30 AM (UTC)

2:15 AM – 2:30 AM (EDT)

4:15 PM – 4:30 PM(AEST)

Knowledge Partner Evangelism & Break

Knowledge Partner Evangelism & Break

12 PM – 1:15 PM (IST)

6:30 AM – 7:45 AM (UTC)

2:30 AM – 3:45 AM (EDT)

4:30 PM – 5:45 PM(AEST)

Session 3: SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters: Make SQL Server your Data Hub for everything
Speaker: Ben Weissman (Data Platform MVP, Germany)

Session 10: Tune SQL Server Performance Without Code Changes
Speaker:Amit Bansal (MVP, MCM, SQLMaestros)

1:15 PM – 2:00 PM (IST)

7:45 AM – 8:30 AM (UTC)

3:45 AM – 4:30 AM (EDT)

5:45 PM – 6:30 PM(AEST)

Lunch Break

Lunch Break

2 PM – 3:15 PM (IST)

8:30 AM – 9:45 AM (UTC)

4:30 AM – 5:45 AM (EDT)

6:30 PM – 7:45 PM(AEST)

Session 4: User Defined Functions – From SQL 2000 – SQL 2019
Speaker: Uwe Ricken (Data Platform MVP, MCM, Germany)

Session 11: Design your backend APIs with Azure SQL Database and GraphQL
Speaker: Silvano Coriani (Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft)

3:15 PM – 3:30 PM (IST)

9:45 AM – 10:00 AM (UTC)

5:45 AM – 6:00 AM (EDT)

7:45 PM – 8:00 PM(AEST)

Knowledge Partner Evangelism & Break

Knowledge Partner Evangelism & Break

3:30 PM – 4:45 PM (IST)

10:00 AM – 11:15 AM (UTC)

6:00 AM – 7:15 AM (EDT)

8:00PM – 9:15 PM(AEST)

Session 5: Start modernizing your workloads at scale with Managed Instance
Speaker: Danimir Ljepava (Program Manager, Microsoft) & Vladimir Ivanovic (Senior Program Manager, Microsoft)

Session 12: SQL Titbits for the Inexperienced
Speaker: Erland Sommarskog (Data Platform MVP, Sweden)

4:45 PM – 5 PM (IST)

11:15 AM – 11:30 AM (UTC)

7:15 AM – 7:30 AM (EDT)

9:15 PM – 9:30 PM(AEST)

Knowledge Partner Evangelism & Break

Knowledge Partner Evangelism & Break

5 PM – 6:15 PM (IST)

11:30 AM – 12:45 PM (UTC)

7:30 AM – 8:45 AM (EDT)

9:30 PM – 10:45 PM(AEST)

Session 6: SQL Server Ground to Cloud
Speaker: Buck Woody (Applied Data Scientist, Microsoft)

Session 13: Persistent Memory and Hybrid Buffer Pool – The good, bad and ugly
Speaker: Thomas Grohser (Data Platform MVP, USA)

6:15 PM – 6:30 PM (IST)

12:45 PM – 1:00 PM (UTC)

8:45 AM – 9:00 AM (EDT)

10:45 PM – 11:00 PM(AEST)

Knowledge Partner Evangelism & Break

Knowledge Partner Evangelism & Break

6:30 PM – 7:45 PM (IST)

1:00 PM – 2:15 PM (UTC)

9:00 AM – 10:15 AM (EDT)

11:00 PM – 12:15 AM(AEST+1)

Session 7: Deploying SQL Server in Kubernetes
Speaker: Anthony Nocentino (Data Platform MVP, USA)

Session 14: Azure SQL: What to use when
Speaker: Anna Hoffman (Data & Applied Scientist, Microsoft)

7:45 PM – 8 PM

2:15 PM – 2:30 PM (UTC)

10:15 AM – 10:30 AM (EDT)

12:15 AM – 12:30 AM(AEST+1)

Closing note

Closing note