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This year’s PASS Summit has gone virtual and is taking place November 10-13. PASS Summit is the largest gathering of data professionals focused on the Microsoft platform, and this year, it will be more accessible than ever, giving attendees the opportunity to learn from data professionals around the world right from their very own home.


Not only will the Azure SQL/ SQL Server teams be delivering 25+ sessions, but there will also be opportunities to connect directly with the product groups through:



  • Microsoft Azure Data Clinic: Attendees will be able to access the virtual clinic booth to schedule 1:1 time with Microsoft engineers to get their questions answered.


  • Focus Groups: The week following PASS Summit (November 16 -20), attendees will be able to meet with the product teams to provide feedback on topics related to the technical roadmap for Microsoft data platforms, trends/drivers facing your organizations or industry, and priorities to move your business forward. To sign up for one of our focus groups, click here.



As a bonus – the first 1,500 registrants for PASS Summit will receive Bob Ward, Principal Architect on the Azure Data team, new eBook, Azure SQL Revealed: A Guide to the Cloud for SQL Server Professionals.


More details about the events are being updated directly on the PASS Summit website but in the meantime, you can start planning which Azure Data sessions you would like to attend with my quick reference list below:


 




















































































































Speakers



Title


PRE-CONFERENCE SESSION

Bob Ward, Anna Hoffman



The Azure SQL Workshop



CONFERENCE SESSIONS


Ajay Jagannathan, Anna Hoffman Azure SQL: What to use when and what’s new
Anna Hoffman, Alain Dormehl, Emily Lisa Azure SQL Built-in High Availability
Bob Ward Inside Waits, Latches, and Spinlocks Returns
Bob Ward, Denzil Ribeiro Inside Azure SQL Database Hyperscale
Borko Novakovic, Srdan Bozovic Modernize your SQL applications with the recently enhanced version of Azure SQL Managed Instance 
Buck Woody Machine Learning with SQL Server – From the Edge to the Cloud
Buck Woody SQL Server Big Data Clusters Architecture
Davide Mauri, Silvano Coriani Azure SQL is the best choice for building back-end REST API: discuss!
Kevin Farlee HA/DR in SQL Server, Putting the puzzle pieces together and planning for the future
Michelle Wallig The future of ML services on hybrid
Morgan Oslake Maximize performance for less cost using Azure SQL Database serverless
Mukesh Kumar, Raj Pochiraju Database modernization best practices and lessons learned through customer engagements 
Pam Lahoud, David Pless Best Practices for deployment of SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines 
Pedro Lopes, Joe Sack Azure SQL: Path to an Intelligent Database
Pedro Lopes, Pam Lahoud Practical Guidance to Make Your Tier-1 SQL Server Roar
Raj Pochiraju, Amit Banerjee Lift and shift your SQL Servers to Azure SQL Virtual Machines
Raj Pochiraju, Mukesh Kumar App Modernization and Migration from End to end, using data migration tools and Azure SQL
Ron Matchoro, Rohit Nayak, Mirek Sztajno, Jakub Szymaszek What’s New in Security & Networking for Azure SQL
Sanjay Mishra, Abdul Sathar Sait Elevation to the cloud – How our customers are using Azure SQL
Tejas Shah, Amit Khandelwal Deployment, High Availability and Performance guidance for SQL Server on Linux in Azure IaaS ecosystem
Umachandar Jayachandran Taking your data hybrid with Azure Arc enabled data services
Vasiya Krishnan Extend SQL applications to the edge with Azure SQL Edge 
Vicky Harp, Ken Van Hyning What’s New in the SQL Server Tools?
Vin Yu, Amit Khandelwal SQL Server Containers in Action

 


We’re looking forward to seeing you online!  Tweet us at @AzureSQL for sessions you are most excited about.

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