Edward Pollack

Join us for Games Night — back by popular demand — to unwind, connect, and have some fun. Settle in for a relaxed evening with a mix of classics and community favorites, including Catan, Exploding Kittens, Trivial Pursuit, Uno, and more. We’ll have a variety of games available, and you’re...

This is a fun and fast-paced run through the native Regex functionality in Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2025. Gone are the days of complex string-matching and endless LIKE operators!

This session is a dive into everything new that appears in SQL Server 2025 and are already available in Azure SQL Database.Looking to use the new Regex functions?

Administrators and analysts often struggle with the storage and maintenance of reporting and analytics data. Traditional rowstore tables do not scale well when data is measured in billions of rows.

As AI adoption increases rapidly and organizations clamor to take advantage of OpenAI, Copilot, and other powerful tools, many mistakes and oversights are made. These mistakes manifest themselves in security breaches, invalid results, and even offensive content.

The best way to have data sources that are secure, perform well, and are easy to use is to design and architect them well the first time around. With more data storage technologies available than ever, deciding where to put data and how to model it can be overwhelming!

Retention is a subtle and often overlooked aspect to database architecture and design. How long data is maintained for will have a profound impact on the performance and usability of data.

Intelligent Query Processing (IQP) allows SQL Server to make dynamic, smarter decisions at runtime when processing queries. What’s more, these features are on by default when SQL Server is upgraded to a compatible version!

Determining the best ways to store, manage, and retrieve data may at first glance sound like a highly technical task. Viewing it from the perspective of the audience of users that will interact with an application reveals that it is a very personal task.

Intelligent Query Processing (IQP) allows SQL Server to make dynamic, smarter decisions at runtime when processing queries. What’s more, these features are on by default when SQL Server is upgraded to a compatible version!

Dynamic SQL is a powerful tool that allows for the creation of fast and efficient queries when the specifics may not be known until run-time. This tool can be used to automate complex processes, facilitate reporting on an unknown number of targets, or perform tasks that would otherwise be time-consuming to develop.