
Theme: SQL Server 2019 & Azure SQL
Quick Facts
Countries: 85 | Companies: 1000+ | Speakers: 21 | Total Sessions: 20
Thanks To Our Speakers & Knowledge Partners

Thanks to Speakers: Ruchi Tushir (Director – Data, AI & IoT Business Group Microsoft), Bob Ward (Principal Architect, Microsoft), Davide Mauri (Senior Program Manager, Microsoft), Connor Cox (Product Manager – DH2i), Amit Bansal (MVP, MCM, SQLMaestros), Amit Shukla (Product Lead – Stellar Data Recovery), Ben Weissman (Data Platform MVP, Germany), Amit Bansal (MVP, MCM, SQLMaestros), Arun Nagalingam (Product Advisor, Asia Pacific, erwin), Uwe Ricken (Data Platform MVP, MCM, Germany), Silvano Coriani (Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft), Danimir Ljepava (Program Manager, Microsoft) & Vladimir Ivanovic (Senior Program Manager, Microsoft), Erland Sommarskog (Data Platform MVP, Sweden), Jerod Johnson (Technology Evangelist, Cdata), Buck Woody (Applied Data Scientist, Microsoft), Thomas Grohser (Data Platform MVP, USA), Mike Salins (Principal Product Manager, Actifio), Anthony Nocentino (Data Platform MVP, USA), Anna Hoffman (Data & Applied Scientist, Microsoft), Rie Irish (Sr. Program Manager, Microsoft), Satya Ramesh (Sr. Consultant, SQLMaestros)
Thanks to Knowledge Partners: Microsoft, SQLMaestros, Stellar, DH2i, Actifio, CDATA & erwin
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Organizing Team
DataPlatformGeeks and SQLServerGeeks community infrastructure & activities are managed and run by eleven team members. We all worked from home to pull this off. We couldn’t take a virtual group photograph of ourselves, but here is a group photo of us with Gayle Sheppard (CVP, Azure Data). Pic credits: Data Platform Summit 2019.

Sessions/Schedule
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 | Session Title: Spotlight Session (Performance Tuning) |
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM (IST) 4:15 AM – 5:15 AM (UTC) 12:15 AM – 1:15 AM (EDT) 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM(AEST) | Session Title: SQL Server By Example | Session Title: 10 Reasons why Azure SQL is the best Database for Developers |
10:45 AM – 11 AM (IST) 5:15 AM – 5:30 AM (UTC) 1:15 AM – 1:30 AM (EDT) 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM(AEST) | Refreshment Break | Refreshment Break |
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) | Refreshment Break | Session Title: Availability Groups Clustering without WSFC or Pacemaker – from Premises to Cloud |
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 Title: Spotlight Session (Performance Tuning) | Session Title: Fixing SQL Server Databases Corruption |
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) | Refreshment Break | Refreshment Break |
12 PM – 1:00 PM (IST) 6:30 AM – 7:30 AM (UTC) 2:30 AM – 3:30 AM (EDT) 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM(AEST) | Session Title: SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters: Make SQL Server your Data Hub for everything | Session Title: Top 5 Query Tuning Tricks |
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM (IST) 7:30 AM – 7:45 AM (UTC) 3:30 AM – 3:45 AM (EDT) 5:30 PM – 5:45 PM(AEST) | Refreshment Break | Session Title: Metadata Management: The Hero in Unleashing Enterprise Data’s Value |
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 Title: User Defined Functions – From SQL 2000 – SQL 2019 | Session Title: Design your backend APIs with Azure SQL Database and GraphQL |
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) | Refreshment Break | Refreshment Break |
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM (IST) 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (UTC) 6:00 AM – 7:00 AM (EDT) 8:00PM – 9:00 PM(AEST) | Session Title: Start modernizing your workloads at scale with Managed Instance | Session Title: SQL Titbits for the Inexperienced |
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM (IST) 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM (UTC) 7:00 AM – 7:15 AM (EDT) 9:00PM – 9:15 PM(AEST) | Session Title: SQL Access to SaaS/Cloud Data through PolyBase | Refreshment Break |
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) | Refreshment Break | Refreshment 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 Title: SQL Server Ground to Cloud | Session Title: Persistent Memory and Hybrid Buffer Pool – The good, bad and ugly |
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) | Session Title: Low RTO Restores – a revolutionary approach | Refreshment Break |
6:30 PM – 6:45 PM (IST) 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM (UTC) 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM (EDT) 11:00 PM – 11:15 AM(AEST+1) | Refreshment Break | Refreshment Break |
6:45 PM – 8:00 PM (IST) 1:15 PM – 2:30 PM (UTC) 9:15 AM – 10:30 AM (EDT) 11:15 PM – 12:30 AM(AEST+1) | Session Title: Deploying SQL Server in Kubernetes | Session Title: Azure SQL: What to use when |
8:00 PM – 8:15 PM 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM (UTC) 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM (EDT) 12:30 AM – 12:45 AM(AEST+1) | Day 1 Closing | Closing note |