DataPlatformGeeks Virtual Summit

Theme: SQL Server 2019 & Azure SQL


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Quick Facts


Attendance: 1200+ on Day One (7 May, 2020) and 900+ on Day Two (8 May, 2020)
Countries: 85 | Companies: 1000+ | Speakers: 21 | Total Sessions: 20

Thanks To Our Speakers & Knowledge Partners


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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

Participating Countries


Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cook Islands, Costa rica, Croatia, Curaçao, Czechia, Denmark, Deutschland, Egypt, El Salvador, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, KENYA, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Mexico, Michigan, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, panama, Perú, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republica Dominicana, Romania, Russia, RWANDA, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, Ukraine, USA, Vietnam

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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.
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Sessions/Schedule


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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
Ruchi Tushir
Director – Data, AI & IoT Business Group
Microsoft

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

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
Speaker: Bob Ward (Principal Architect, Microsoft)

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

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
Speaker: Connor Cox (Product Manager – DH2i)

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)
SQL Server 2019 Intelligent Query Processing – Part 1
Speaker: Amit Bansal (MVP, MCM, SQLMaestros)

Session Title: Fixing SQL Server Databases Corruption
Speaker: Amit Shukla (Product Lead – Stellar Data Recovery)

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
Speaker: Ben Weissman (Data Platform MVP, Germany)

Session Title: Top 5 Query Tuning Tricks
Speaker:Amit Bansal (MVP, MCM, SQLMaestros)

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
Speaker: Arun Nagalingam (Product Advisor, Asia Pacific, erwin)

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
Speaker: Uwe Ricken (Data Platform MVP, MCM, Germany)

Session Title: 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)

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
Speaker: Danimir Ljepava (Program Manager, Microsoft) & Vladimir Ivanovic (Senior Program Manager, Microsoft)

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

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
Speaker: Jerod Johnson (Technology Evangelist, Cdata)

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
Speaker: Buck Woody (Applied Data Scientist, Microsoft)

Session Title: 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)

Session Title: Low RTO Restores – a revolutionary approach
Speaker: Mike Salins (Principal Product Manager, Actifio)

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
Speaker: Anthony Nocentino (Data Platform MVP, USA)

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

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
Rie Irish (Sr. Program Manager, Microsoft)

Closing note
Rie Irish (Sr. Program Manager, Microsoft)