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SQL Saturday Jacksonville 2025

event starts

2 May 2025

event ends

3 May 2025

location

University Of North Florida - UNF Jacksonville, Florida, United States

website

sqlsaturday.com/jax

Come speak at SQL Saturday in Jacksonville! May 3rd, 2025. 


This will be Jacksonville's 17th SQL Saturday!


We are looking for speakers for Saturday for 1-hour sessions and also for 2 all-day pre-cons. The speaker call is open until March 31st.


We plan to have a complete 101 Track for all data-related topics. If you have any 101 sessions, please submit those.


Please also indicate if you would be willing to present in more than one session.


This is an IN-PERSON event at UNF in Jacksonville, Florida!


https://sqlsaturday.com/jax


Please email Jeff@JeffTaylor.io if you have any questions.

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Come speak at SQL Saturday in Jacksonville! May 3rd, 2025.

This will be Jacksonville's 17th SQL Saturday!

We are looking for speakers for Saturday for 1-hour sessions and also for 2 all-day pre-cons. The speaker call is open until March 31st.

We plan to have a complete 101 Track for all data-related topics. If you have any 101 sessions, please submit those.

Please also indicate if you would be willing to present in more than one session.

This is an IN-PERSON event at UNF in Jacksonville, Florida!

https://sqlsaturday.com/jax

Please email Jeff@JeffTaylor.io if you have any questions.

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Reza Rad
  • Exception Reporting in Power BI: Catch the Error Rows in Power Query
  • Microsoft Fabric for the Power BI Professional
  • Fast and Furious: Power BI Direct Lake in Fabric
  • Introducing Microsoft Fabric: Data Analytics SAAS
  • DAX and Calculations in Power BI from Rookie to Rock Star
Dave Bland
  • PowerShell For the SQL Server DBA
  • Transitioning Your SQL Server DBA skills to PostgreSQL
Andreas Erben
  • Let's focus on Embeddings
  • Agents in the AI race: from Prompts to Swarms
  • AI Vulnerabilities in 2025 - Some of the darker sides of AI
  • Let’s build Agents with .NET
  • From Zero to Hero in Generative AI
  • AI Agents - It's a Team Sport
  • Your Prompt Engineering needs Engineering
David Pless
  • Best Practices Assessment (BPA) for SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc
  • Unleash the Beast: Scaling Azure SQL Virtual Machine with Premium Storage
David Pless, Abdullah Mamun
  • Managing SQL Server with Azure Arc Unleashed
Richie Rump
  • Paste The Plan Autopsy: An Internal Look at a Serverless Cloud App
Eddy Djaja
  • Best Practices of Implementing Azure Data Factory
John Blackburn
  • Live Data Modeling From Scratch: Avoiding Conway's Law using Mob Programming
Aikerim Belispayeva
  • SQL Server & Visual Studio for Beginners: Extracting EHR Data from EPIC Without Advanced Coding
Tim Radney
  • Common SQL Server Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
  • Understanding Azure SQL
  • Understanding SQL Server Backup and Restore
  • Selecting the Right Size Azure VM
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Dagiana Toussaint
  • Diving into Data: From Relational Databases to Lakehouse
Zane Goodman
  • Unlocking the Power of Microsoft Fabric Data Pipelines
Oscar Garcia
  • Discovering Machine Learning: A Primer Guide
  • Smart Charts: Using AI to Enhance Data Understanding
  • Generative AI : Create Code from GitHub User Stories - Introduction to AI LLM Models
  • Data Engineering End-to-End: Discovery to Visualization
Scott Dorman
  • Leadership Catnip
Suyash Joshi
  • Real time insights with InfluxDB & SQL Server for IoT Data Analytics (Raspberry Pi Sensor Demo)
Tony Wilhelm
  • Intro to PowerShell with dbatools for the DBA
  • My Brain Has Blue Screened - Let’s Laugh
Michael Wall
  • SQL MI - Making the leap
  • Becoming a Master by Giving it all Away
  • Storage: You want to put what where?
  • Azure Backup - ready for prime time?
Bradley Ball, Daniel Taylor
  • SQL Server 2025: an enterprise AI-ready database platform
Brent Ozar
  • Blocking: How to Find and Fight LCK* Waits
  • 300-Level Guide to Career Internals: Planning Your Career
  • Watch Brent Tune a Query in SQL Server 2022
  • Mastering Query Tuning
Ed Pearson
  • Finding Your Spark: Unleashing Analytics with Python in Fabric and Databricks
Jason Romans
  • How to Diagnose a Slow Power BI Report
  • Unlocking the Power of Semantic Link Labs: Proactive Issue Identification in Models and Reports
  • Unlocking the Power of TMDL: Enhancing Power BI Development
Doug Leal
  • End-to-End MLOps in Azure Databricks
  • Cutting Through the Buzz: LLM, Agents, RAG, and GPT - Making Sense of Generative AI
Darius Liktorius
  • Fabric & Azure Data Factory Revealed
  • SQL in the Cloud
  • Optimize Your SQL Database
Amy Herold
  • Performance Tuning in Azure Synapse
  • Securing Your Data in Microsoft Fabric: Best Practices and Strategies
Camilo Leon
  • Better Together: Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and RDS SQL Server, a Gen AI data integration use case
Andy Warren
  • Paying it Forward by Writing, Speaking, and Mentoring
  • Building & Managing a DBA Team
Tarakanath Paipuru
  • Banking AI Pricing Agent
Jeff Taylor
  • Azure Data Factory (ADF) - Your New SSIS
Howard Globus
  • Cybersecurity is Everyone’s Responsibility: How to Delegate
  • Their Data is Your Reputation: Playing Nice with the FTC
Kevin Pereira
  • Fast-Track Your Career Through Community Engagement and Technical Events
  • Streamlining DataOps in Fabric: Implementing Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipelines for Fabric SQL DB
David Fekke
  • Use SQL Server to create MCPs for AI Agents
Steve Wheeler
  • Migrate SQL Databases from on-prem to Azure SQL Managed Instance using Managed Instance Link
Kevin Kline
  • How DBAs Can Launch a Data Governance Program
  • Communication Skills for the Technology Pro
  • SQL Server Internals & Architecture - 2025
Chandan Dutta
  • Efficient Data Pipeline Management: Orchestrating Databricks Jobs with Apache Airflow
  • Building CI/CD pipeline using Databricks Asset Bundles
  • Build a Data Stack with DBT (Data Build Tool) and Databricks.
Sukhwant Kaur, Bradley Schacht
  • Everything You Want to Know About SQL Databases in Fabric
Preston Mesarvey
  • Modern Data Quality Practices For Your Data Estate
Rob Volk
  • That's So Metadata: Discover Your Database From The Inside
  • Tame Your Unruly Data With Constraints
David Seis
  • PowerBI for the accidental Data Anlayst
  • Build a Custom Monitoring Solution for your SQL Server Environment
  • Build a Bulletproof SQL Server Development Environment
  • Intro to PowerShell Automation for the SQL Server DBA
Jared Kirkpatrick
  • T-SQL Tips, Tricks, Hacks, and Backdoors - the undocumented goodies
  • Database Design - How to start and move forward "It Depends"
Amelia Roberts
  • Copilot Studio Secrets: Agents that Amaze
Emily Taylor
  • From Excel to Power BI: Transforming Data Analysis and Visualization
Justin Vogel
  • Understanding Power BI: Key Concepts for Beginners
Helen Devlin
  • Utilize Dataverse to Create Model Driven Apps
Chris Hyde
  • Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse
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
Warren Sifre
  • PowerApp Power!!!
  • Leadership Principles Uncovered...
  • Working Genius Uncovered
Belinda Allen
  • What are KPIs and OKRs and Which Should I Use in Power BI?
  • Top 10 List of MUST-DOs for Power BI End-User Adoption
  • Sales Forecasting with Microsoft Fabric Notebooks and Fabric Data Science
James Serra
  • Transforming Data Governance with Microsoft Purview
  • Moving to Azure SQL from VM-based SQL
  • Data Architectures and Microsoft Fabric
  • Deciphering Data Architectures (Modern Data Warehouse, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse, and Data Mesh)
  • Enhancing your career: Building your personal brand
  • Learning to present and becoming good at it
  • Using Generative AI on Structured Data (to query or modify data)
Victor Ivantsov
  • SQL Server CLR
Nem Schlecht
  • Maximizing SSMS for Developers and DBAs
Bradley Ball
  • Introduction to SQL Server Essential Concepts
  • Harness the Power of Microsoft Fabric and Notebooks
  • Introduction to Azure SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric aka #FabSQL
Charles Lakes II
  • Dataverse: Everything, Everywhere, Here and There
Kate Boss
  • Report Design Process in Power BI
Chandra Pathivada
  • PostgreSQL for SQL Server DBAs
  • PostgreSQL Monitoring & Health Checks: Ensuring Optimal Performance and Stability
Bradley Schacht, Daniel Taylor
  • Building a Data Warehouse on Microsoft Fabric
  • Microsoft Fabric 101: The All-in-One Data Platform
Jeff Foushee
  • Advanced T-SQL Pattern Matching: Leveraging LIKE and Regular Expressions
  • The T-SQL JSON Operators
Armando Lacerda
  • MS Fabric crash session
  • SQL Server and AI, tomorrow has arrived
  • Power BI Data Analyst - How your life changes after Fabric
  • How SQL Server and AI work together
Trey Johnson
  • You have the reports, but no Action - Microsoft Fabric's Activator for the win!
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Miranda Grant
  • Power BI Directory: Enhancing Data Navigation and User Experience
Fabiano Neves Amorim
  • Why my shrink is running for 1 week and stuck at 99%?
  • Understanding and resolving high query compilation problems
  • 13 optimizer statistic problems you didn’t know you had
Marc Bushong
  • Data Mesh Mastery: Leveraging Microsoft Fabric for Modern Analytics
  • Mastering Enterprise T-SQL ETL/ELT: A Guide with Data Warehouse and Fabric Pipelines
Matt Gordon
  • Azure-ish SQL and Azure AI 101
  • Revolutionizing Data in Motion w/ Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric
  • Skills to Pay The Bills: Using AI Skills in Fabric
  • Self-care In A High Intensity Technological World
  • Real-Time Hub: Starting Point of Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric
Barkha Herman
  • Data-Driven Leadership: Harnessing Analytics for Business Impact
  • The Collision of Real-Time Analytics and Observability
Minesh Chande
  • Modernize your SQL Server workloads to Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL
  • HA/DR options on Amazon RDS and RDS Custom for SQL Server
  • Customize your managed SQL Server database on AWS Cloud
Thomas Grohser
  • SQL Server Availability options in the year 2025
  • Managing SQL Server Error Log
  • Backup/Restore from Strategy to Implementation
Jean Joseph
  • Data Labeling in Azure Machine Learning: A Comprehensive Guide for Image and Text Data
  • The Art of Regression and Classification: A Beginner’s Guide to Model Training
  • Microsoft Fabric: Complete Data Security for Data Warehousing
Tosin Clement
  • DataOps for Business Intelligence: Leveraging 'Dashboards as Code' to Build and Validate Analytics E
Lakshmi Ponnurasan
  • From Imagination to Reality: Craft Any KPI with Powerviz's KPI Visual
  • Discover Powerops Desktop- Your Free Power BI Sidekick
  • Supercharge your Power BI Dashboards with Powerviz visuals​
Gilda Alvarez
  • Migrating SQL Server from on-premises to Azure MI using DMS / Log replay
Kellyn Gorman
  • Unlocking the Benefits of Database DevOps and Automation
  • Keynote: The Battle for Data Protection in AI and Data Analytics in Today’s World
  • Benchmarking and Scaling PostgreSQL
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
Kevin Feasel
  • Eyes on the Prize: Simple and Effective Dashboard Visualization Techniques
  • Getting Beyond the Basics with NLP
  • Analyzing Business Data with T-SQL
  • The Basics of Speech and Natural Language Processing
Cecilia Brusatori
  • Getting started with Power BI for the Data Analyst
  • Data Modeling 101 for Power BI
Alex Merced
  • Building an Apache Iceberg Lakehouse with Dremio & SQLServer
  • The Who, What, and Why of Data Lake Table Formats
  • Lakehouse Catalogs 101 - Governing and Transporting your Iceberg, Delta and Hudi tables
  • Building Data Applications on Disparate Data with Dremio
Andrew Madson
  • Data-Centric AI: Accelerate Success with Apache Iceberg Data Products
  • Building and Scaling Analytics Products
  • Accelerate Your Analytics with SQL Server + Data Lakehouse