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Data Saturday Croatia 2026
event date
13 Jun 2026
location
Hotel International Zagreb, Croatia
Data Saturday Croatia is a one day event for professionals who use the Microsoft data platform.
Organizers
This event is organized by Damir Matešić, MVP, Domagoj Piškur & Dean Savović with the help of volunteers from the SQL Server User Group Croatia.
Event venue
The event will be in person, on Saturday, June 13, 2026, at the Hotel International, Miramarska Cesta 24, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia.
open, 48 days left
Call for Speakers
Call opens at 12:00 AM
01 Oct 2025
Call closes at 11:59 PM
31 Dec 2025
Call closes in W. Europe Standard Time (UTC+01:00) timezone.
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Important
The event will be in person, on Saturday, June 13, 2026, at the Hotel International, Miramarska Cesta 24, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia. Please submit a session only if you plan to come to Croatia.
Topics
Any Microsoft Data Platform-related technical or non-technical subject with emphasis on MS SQL Server.
Sessions
Session Length:
- 60 minute - standard session
- 120 minutes - extended, in deep session
Session Abstract: Please include a full description of what topics this session will cover, what the audience will learn, and which, if any, pre-requisites should be expected of attendees
Tracks: Please choose the track most appropriate to your session from among: Administration, BI & Analytics, Development, Other
Difficulty level: Introductory and overview, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert
Maybe, we will host one slot lasting 60 minutes panel, "ask the expert". If you want to participate in the panel, please mark it on the form. In each room 2-3 speakers on DEV, Performance Tunning and BI.
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Submitted sessions
Mihail Mateev
- From Prompt Flow to Agents: Orchestrating External Systems with OpenAPI Actions & Power Automate
- GeoSemantic Search on Azure: Marrying Spatial Indexes with Embeddings using Azure AI Foundry, OpenAI
- Building Next-Gen Digital Twins with Microsoft Fabric
- CTE Myths—Busted!
- How to properly handle LOB data in SQL Server
- Rebuild or Reorganize your Indexes – what’s the best approach?
- How to handle Timeseries with Microsoft SQL Server
- Demystifying Clustered Indexes in SQL Server
- Unlocking Performance and Efficiency in Azure SQL and SQL Server
- Automatic Query Tuning in Azure SQL – Achieving Stable and Self-Healing Performance
- Transaction Log – Delayed durability and minimally logged operations in SQL
- Next-Gen AI Insights Native Vector Search in SQL Server 2025
- Batch mode Adaptive Join in SQL
- Columnstore indexes in SQL
- Index Fragmentation
- Evaluating Data Compression in SQL Server: Performance, Trade-offs, and Internal
- Parallelism in SQL
- Analyzing Azure SQL Database Workloads with KQL Insights, Patterns, and Performance
- A Deep Dive into Optimized Locking in SQL Server 2025
- Data Science in Power BI
- SQL Server (2025) Transactions and Locking
- Fuzzy Matching
- Waitstats for the accidental DBA
- SQL Bad practices caught in the wild
- An introduction to Extended Events
- Query Store Basics: A DBA’s Best Friend
- Stop Leaking Secrets: Vaultify Your PostgreSQL
- Git Happens: Lessons Learned from Introducing Git in a Large Team
- Applying DevOps practices to your Power BI deployments in Microsoft Fabric
- The ultimate showcase for implementing CI/CD in Microsoft Fabric using Azure DevOps
- Building an Azure Data Resources with Biceps
- Automating Fabric with the PowerShell Module FabricTools
- Real-Time Intelligence with Microsoft Fabric
- Releasing the Potential of Microsoft Real-Time Intelligence through AI Agents
Augustin Dokoza Bukvic
- Fabric Uncorked
- From Edge to Cloud, Creating Data Pipelines Using Open-Source Technologies
- End-to-end security for data platforms: Lessons from Strimzi, Apicurio, and Keycloak
- OneLake Security - Centralized Data Security for Microsoft Fabric
- OneLake Security for the Power BI Developer
- Governing Fabric - Who needs what?
- Type-safe Data Engineering: Compile-time Data contracts & Fiber-safe Data pipelines
- Understanding CALCULATE, the queen of all DAX functions
- User-Defined Functions (UDFs) in Power BI: overview and applications
- Understanding DAX Pillars
- A wizards guide to using semantic link for Powe BI in middle earth
- Fabric Adoption Roadmap: Lessons from Napoleon Bonaparte
- Building Third Normal Form Models in Microsoft Fabric Warehouse
- Event-Driven Data Vault in Microsoft Fabric: From Stream to Structure
- A Fistful of Parameters: Take Care and Control of Unstable Plans
- For a Few Rows More: Mastering Row Goals in SQL Server
- Advanced DAX for Analytical Insights in Power BI with Visualization Best Practices
- Unraveling Cost Mysteries: Navigating Data Governance with Microsoft Purview
- Data Governance in Fabric: When to Use OneLake Catalog, Purview, or Both
- Securing Fabric from Lakehouse to Report – Why One Security Matters to Everyone
- SAP to Fabric: A Step‑by‑Step Integration Playbook for S/4HANA & ECC
- From Silos to Synergy: How Snowflake and Fabric Deliver Open, Interoperable Data Architectures
- Beyond the Podium: A Data Architect's Guide to Lakehouse Architectures in Microsoft Fabric
- Power BI Copilot Demystified: From Overview to Effective Use
- SQL Server 2025 Optimized Locking
- SQL Server Accelerated Database Recovery
- SQL Server 2025 Vector Data Type and AI Models
- Thē wönderfűl wôrld of ćollåtions, eñcodingß and téxt sţoræge
- What they should have told me about being a DBA
- SQL Copilot, what the query is this!?
- Loadtesting Fabric II, the sequel
- Getting Started with the TMDL View
- Organizational Themes and Visual Styles in Power BI
- Driving Action: Power BI and Power Apps Integration via Microsoft Fabric
- User Data Functions: Development, Testing, and Integration
- Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric: Architecture Deep Dive
- T-SQL User-Defined Functions, or: How to kill performance in one, easy step
- Performance and execution plan improvements in SQL Server 2025
- Now Where Did THAT Estimate Come From?
- Normalization beyond Third Normal Form
- Debugging without debugger: investigating SQL Server's internal structures
- Improve your Database Performance in Seven Simple Steps
- Advanced Indexing
- Five stages of grief - internals of a hash spill
- Approximate functions: How do they work?
- Hash Match, the Operator
- Here’s the execution plan … now what?
- Execution plans ... where do I start?
- Get Started with tSQLt
- Develop and deploy SQL Server databases using database projects
- A Game of Hierarchies – Hierarchies in Power BI and Fabric
- Taming Key-Value Tables in Microsoft Fabric: From Flexibility to Reporting-Ready
- Power BI Data Modelling for the SQL Data Engineer
- Power BI and Big Tables: Optimizing Performance with Hybrid Approaches
- My Perfect Date (Table): Building Time Intelligence the Right Way
- Do You Speak English? Localized Reports with Power BI
- DAX Demystified: 5 Key Lessons Every Beginner Needs to Learn Early
- Become a Guardian of the Star Schema with Microsoft Fabric
- Awesome RTI session - stay tuned
- Eventhouse - medallion architecture in sub seconds
- The second visualization tool from Microsoft - is it actually better than PowerBI?
- Ups and downs on PowerBI and Real-Time intelligence