Armando Lacerda

You're a SQL SSIS ninja, and now Microsoft Fabric is calling your ETL pipelines to the cloud. In this session, you will learn how to bridge your SSIS skills to the more scalable and more performant and integrated SaaS environment with live demos and feature comparisons.

Come learn about the latest release of Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server 2025, with AI built-in, powered by industry proven security, performance, and availability, and connected and integrated to Azure and Microsoft Fabric.

Come learn about the latest release of SQL Server, SQL Server 2025, with AI built-in, powered by industry proven security, performance, and availability, and connected and integrated to Azure and Microsoft Fabric.

Meet Azure Data Explorer, and its powerful data query language: Kusto. In this session we will investigate this obscure data engine in Azure that most people have never heard of.

Many projects struggle on getting from OLTP model to OLAP/dimensional model, and from there building up the semantic layer for all DW needs. In this session we will go over a multidimensional implementation of the StackOverflow database with live demos using delta lake and Microsoft Fabric.

Some companies freak out about moving to the cloud on the perspective the network traffic will be public all the time. But there are ways to keep it private and hybrid.

Azure Synapse Analytics is a collection of data processing engines. In this session Armando Lacerda will demo how the Serverless SQL pool, which is part of Synapse Analytics, can be used with Power BI to implement data exploration on top of a data lake, making a simple implementation of the Lakehouse concept.

Always encrypted is a feature in Azure SQL DB and brings the next level of data protection in the engine. In this session full of demos you will learn how to benefit from it and compare with other options as TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) and Masking.

Azure Synapse provides a complete platform to ingest and process data at scale in the cloud. In this workshop we will be learning and applying its features to all stages of data processing and understanding best practices and pitfalls.

Not long ago, being a Microsoft DBA meant be specialized in Microsoft SQL Server and all the whistles and bells shipped together in the same box. That was the on-prem age.

This is a deep dive session full of demos about SQL 2016 stretched databases feature. It will go from pre-reqs and blocking factor through deployment and disaster recovery.

Not long ago, being a Microsoft DBA meant be specialized in Microsoft SQL Server and all the whistles and bells shipped together in the same box. That was the on-prem age.