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SQL Saturday Raleigh 2025

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SQL Saturday Raleigh 2025

event date

17 May 2025

location

Duke Health, 14 Moore Dr Durham, North Carolina, United States

website

sqlsaturday.com/2025-05-17-sqlsaturday1111/

Speak at SQL Saturday in Raleigh!

May 17th, 2025

We are looking for speakers for Saturday for 1-hour sessions. The speaker call is open until March 31st.

Please also indicate if you would be willing to present multiple sessions.

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Hello Speakers,

This is an in-person event; you must be here in person to present the session.

Code of Conduct: https://sqlsaturday.com/coc/

Please submit your session(s) only if you are available and willing to come in person and present the session in Durham, NC, on Saturday, May 17, 2025, and agree to the code of conduct mentioned in the above link.

Please submit sessions that are Data Platform SQL Saturday. 

Regular sessions can be 60 minutes in total, including delivery and demos (if any).

Please include the session title, complete description of the session, level (100, 200, 300, 400, 500), target audience, speaker name(s), speaker bio(s)

If you have any questions, please get in touch with us at the speaker support email.

Thank you,

SQL Saturday Team Raleigh

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Solomon Rutzky
  • Module Signing: Use Certificates to Grant Higher-level Permissions Without Compromising Security
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Martin Schoombee
  • Working with OAuth 2.0 APIs in Azure Data Factory
  • Building a framework for orchestration in Azure Data Factory
Louis Davidson
  • Relational Database Design Fundamentals
  • BI versus Relational Design
Brent Ozar
  • Watch Brent Tune a Query in SQL Server 2022
  • SQL Server First Responder Kit Tips and Tricks
  • Dynamic SQL: Pro Tips for Building and Tuning It
  • Building a Brand by Sharing Your Work
Chandan Dutta
  • Efficient Data Pipeline Management: Orchestrating Databricks Jobs with Apache Airflow
  • Build a Data Stack with DBT (Data Build Tool) and Databricks.
  • Databricks Unity Catalog - Data Governance and lot more
  • Building CI/CD pipeline using Databricks Asset Bundles
Chris Voss
  • Getting to Know a Brick House: When You Move From SQL Server to Azure Databricks
Mike Chrestensen
  • Dbeaver Deep Dive: A SQL Client for SQL Server Developers
Kellyn Gorman
  • Benchmarking PostgreSQL-Compatible DBs with HammerDB
  • Before Exadata - The Opportunities and Heartbreak of Oracle in Non-OCI Clouds
  • Not If, but When: The Risk to Critical Data with AI
Pavan Paidy
  • Cloud Security in AWS: Hardening Your Infrastructure the Right Way
Vishal Kumar Jaiswal
  • Building Scalable Predictive Analytics Data Warehouses for Hospitals: Blueprint for Better Care
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Sharath Chandra Adupa
  • Securing PII in the Cloud: Advanced Strategies for Data Protection and Compliance
Alan Ferrandiz
  • Navigating Azure’s SQL Landscape: Choosing the Right Database for Your Needs
  • Unified DataOps: Integrating Power BI, Azure DevOps, and Git for Advanced Analytics Workflows
  • Data-Driven Decision Excellence: Integrating Decision Analysis and Data Analytics in Business Cases
  • Data-Driven Decision Excellence: Integrating Decision Analysis and Data Analytics in Business Cases
  • Visual Symphony: Crafting Elegant Visualizations with R and Power BI
  • Microsoft Fabric: Data analytics for the era of AI
Camilo Leon
  • Better Together: Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and RDS SQL Server, a Gen AI data integration use case
Gilda Alvarez
  • Migrating SQL Server from on-premises to Azure MI using DMS / Log replay
Phil Bossman
  • Lab Deployment Made Easy with AutomatedLab
  • PowerShell Essentials: Automating Data Tasks with ImportExcel
  • Get-What-Where: Data Manipulation Using the PowerShell Pipeline
  • Automating SQL Server Management with DBATools and PowerShell
Dirk Lieske
  • Leveraging Metadata and Dynamic SQL To Drive Data Processing
Ben Miller
  • dbatools PowerShell Module Deep Dive
  • SQL Server Migrations made easy with PowerShell
  • SQL Server Configuration Best Practices
  • Master SQL Server 2022 Contained Availability Groups
  • The Ultimate Guide to Ola Hallengren's Maintenance Solution
Sai prasad Veluru
  • Building Scalable and Efficient Systems: Lessons from Industry-Leading Projects
Sangeeta Anand
  • 1. Bridging Data and Business: The Journey of a Senior Data Analyst
Ali Asghar Syed
  • 4. AWS Cloud Solutions Architect & Security Specialist
Vasanta Tarra
  • Optimizing Salesforce for Scalability, Security, and Performance
Krishna Chaganti
  • Shifting Left: Embedding Security into Development with SAST, DAST & Threat Modeling
Anusha Atluri
  • Mastering Oracle HCM Cloud Integrations: From Data Migrations to Seamless Third-Party Integrations
Aaron Bertrand
  • Stored procedures: Why bother?
  • T-SQL : Bad Habits and Best Practices
Angela Henry
  • Getting Started With Data Modeling
  • Understanding DAX, It's All About the Context
  • Make Your Power BI Reports Pop
Leslie Welch
  • Lost in Translation: Overcoming Data Literacy Gaps
  • Demystifying Row Level Security in Power BI
  • The Data Must Flow
  • Data Model Ideation for Power BI
  • Challenging the Norm: An Agile Approach to Data Visualization
Shawn Oden
  • You've Been Hit By A Bus. Now What?
  • Y2K38: The Coming Epochalypse
  • I'm Just Here For The T-Shirt: Coping With Impostor Syndrome
  • If You Teach a Man to Phish ...
  • Schrödinger’s Backup: Is Your Backup Really a Backup?
Jeff Foushee
  • The T-SQL PIVOT/UNPIVOT Operators
  • The T-SQL JSON Operators
  • Advanced T-SQL Pattern Matching: Leveraging LIKE and Regular Expressions
Praneeth Thoutam
  • Unlocking Business Intelligence's Future: Harnessing AI-Powered, Prompt-Based Dashboards
Anders Pedersen
  • From Flying to SQL, one accidental DBAs journey
Jonathan Stewart
  • Now you see it, but did you really? Correcting visual fallacies...
  • Fabric Copilot: Consumption and Cost Demystified
  • Lifecycle Management and Git Integration in Microsoft Fabric
  • Building Scalable Data Warehouses with Microsoft Fabric:
Thomas LeBlanc
  • The end game: Lakehouse in Fabric
  • Introduction to Execution Plans
  • Making Power BI Run Faster!!!
Lenore Flower
  • Power BI Themes 101
  • Eating the Elephant: Report Development Strategies for when Demand Exceeds Supply
  • Mastering the BI Mullet – Managed Self Service BI
  • Paginated Reports 101 for the Power BI Veteran
Belinda Allen
  • Visualization Alterations to Help Tell Your Power BI Data Story
  • Modernizing Financial Reporting with Power BI: Operational Financials vs Traditional Statements
  • 3 Case Studies using Power Apps and Power Automate in your Power BI Report
  • Sales Forecasting with Microsoft Fabric Notebooks and Fabric Data Science
  • What are KPIs and OKRs and Which Should I Use in Power BI?
Sudhir Amin
  • Privilege Database User Activity Monitoring using Database Activity Stream on Amazon RDS
  • Real-time stream analytics from your transactional workload on Amazon RDS
Dominick Raimato
  • Simulating Scenarios with Power BI
  • From the Audience to a Speaker on the Stage
  • Extending Power BI with Power Automate
  • Ingesting REST API data with Microsoft Fabric
Jared Poche
  • Every Millisecond Counts
  • Maximizing Performance with Memory-Optimized Table Variables
  • Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization and Query Store
Jared Rhodes
  • Azure for the Enterprise - Getting Started
  • Healthcare Analytics on Azure
  • Microsoft Fabric and Azure Health Data Services
  • Data Governance with Microsoft Purview and Fabric
John Kerski
  • Querying Power BI REST APIs within a Power BI Dataset
  • Leveraging Large Language Models with Power BI
  • DAX Query View Testing Pattern
  • DataOps 101 – A Better Way to Develop and Deliver Data Analytics
  • Avoiding the "Grey Box of Death": Automatically Checking For Broken Visuals in Power BI
Barkha Herman
  • The Collision of Real-Time Analytics and Observability
Haripriya Naidu
  • Memory Optimized TempDB for Faster Performance
  • Load data faster using TABLOCK
Joseph Fleming
  • Transactional Replication - From Expletives to Excellence
Kris Gruttemeyer
  • Production down? How to keep calm and query on during an outage