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SQL Saturday Boston 2022

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SQL Saturday Boston 2022

event date

8 Oct 2022

location

5 Wayside Road Burlington, Massachusetts, United States


SQLSaturday Boston will be held at Microsoft Technology Center - Burlington, MA. We will notify all who submitted sessions of the final schedule by September 10, 2022. If you have one or more sessions accepted we will email you a discount code to pay for lunch when you register as an attendee on Eventbrite.

Code of Conduct for Boston SQL Saturday.


Event COVID Policy:

Only registered users will be allowed to enter the Microsoft facility. Below please find the current policy that we all must follow.

Microsoft’s Vaccination Policy:

Guests and customers will be able to provide proof of vaccination or self-attest to having received a negative COVID-19 test within the previous week via HealthCheck. https://msrtw.powerappsportals.com/en-US/

Guests who do not upload proof of vaccination must wear a face-covering onsite.

Guests and customers should follow local requirements for face coverings.

If a guest or customer has uploaded their proof of vaccination, it will be valid for 30 days. After that period, they will need to re-upload if they plan to visit a Microsoft site again.

Microsoft is not able to offer an alternative process for guests and customers who can neither provide proof of vaccination nor attest to a negative test result in the last week.

Microsoft’s vaccination policy will be enforced for all employees, visitors, external staff, guests, and customers.

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Call for Speakers
Call opens at 12:00 AM

27 Sep 2022

Call closes at 11:59 PM

17 Oct 2022

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This is an in-person event.


We are accepting one-hour regular sessions and lightning talks for 10 minutes.

All topics around Microsoft Data Platform, Professional Development, and Mental health are accepted. 

We will notify you no later than September 10, 2022.


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66 submissions
Submitted sessions
Ian Allton
  • Overcoming the Dilemma of SQL Server High Availability
Rob Mandeville
  • Solarwinds and SentryOne – a marriage made in heaven
  • Stop Indexing the Query
John Miner, Bryan Cafferky, Matt Batalon
  • Hot Technologies you need to Know
Shawn Meyers
  • Next Gen Infrastructure – Level up how you run SQL Server
  • Protect your database from Ransomware
  • Contain(erizer) your SQL Server
Surbhi Pokharna
  • Principals of architecting a cloud data migration
Sunil Kadimdiwan
  • Snowsight: An introduction to Snowflake's powerful and easy-to-use web interface
Mahfuz Chowdhury
  • MARRYING DATA AND STORYTELLING: EVOLVE YOUR BRAND
  • WE THE BRAND: NURTURE COMPANY CULTURE AND GROWTH
  • LEADING WITH STORYTELLING: INCREASE TEAM PERFORMANCE
Todd Cioffi
  • Alphabet Soup: ETL, SQL, DDL, CRUD, JSON, XML, ML, CSV, and more
  • DeepQuery: A hierarchical visual query system for your data
  • Define, Build, and Maintain your SQL DB via the Web
Deborah Melkin
  • WIT Panel Discussion
  • Database Deployment Methods Demystified
  • A Practical Starter Guide to SQL Notebooks
John Morehouse
  • Exploring SQL Server Data Encryption Offerings
  • Surviving a Disaster in Azure SQL DB & Managed Instance
  • Saving Yourself with Accelerated Database Recovery
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Brandon Leach
  • Availability Group Enhancements in SQL Server 2022
Bryan Cafferky
  • Don't Use Apache Airflow!
  • Azure Databricks 101
  • Python & SQL Server: A Winning Combination
John Miner
  • Explore your data lake with Synapse Serverless SQL Pools
  • Secure your delta lake with table access controls
  • Transitioning your T-SQL skills to Spark SQL
Paresh Motiwala
  • How I Cut My Maintenance Window by 80%
  • Cloud Data Management 101
  • How I recovered from my 20 stupid DBA mistakes
Erin Dempster
  • Implementing Row Level Security in SQL Server
  • Reduce Data Warehouse Processing with PowerShell Pre-ETL Processing
Saundra Dalton-Smith
  • The Restorative Edge: Cultivating Wellbeing During Change and Challenges
Warren Sifre
  • PowerApp Power!!!
  • Power BI Data Governance
  • Introduction to Azure Synapse
Peter Shore
  • Azure Data: A Guided Tour
  • Wait Wait Do Tell Me
  • Infrastructure for Data Professionals: An Introduction
Monica Livingston
  • Befriending the Disruptor (DEI)
Mariya Ali
  • What's new in Synapse SQL Data Warehouse
George Walters
  • Data landscape in a modern world
  • Modernize your old database-heavy application to cloud architecture!
Andy Leonard
  • Using Azure Data Factory with Git
  • Faster SSIS
Justin Dearing
  • Teaching developers to use ORMs better
  • Git for the DBA
  • An Introduction to Always Encrypted
Joey D'Antoni
  • Understanding Azure Active Directory for Data Professionals
  • Building Your Cloud Database Solution--Choosing the Right Model
  • Intelligent Query Processing in SQL Server
Allan Hirt
  • Worst Practices for Highly Available SQL Server Deployments
  • Tips for Successful Virtualized and IaaS Deployments of SQL Server
Monica Rathbun
  • Your Performance Tuning Check List
  • Performance Tuning Azure SQL Database
  • Mastering TempDB
Ray Kim
  • Networking 101: Building professional relationships
  • I lost my job! Now what?!? A survival guide for the unemployed
  • Blogging for Success: Advancing your career by blogging
Edward Pollack
  • My Favorite New T-SQL in SQL Server 2022
  • Columnstore Index Compression in a Nutshell
  • Parameter Sniffing: Everything You Have Been Told is Wrong!
Christopher Hyde
  • Microsoft Azure Databricks
Steve Jones
  • Branding Yourself for a Dream Job
  • Adopting A DevOps Process for Your Database