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Speakers

Erik Darling

Employers on the program

  1. 2026Darling Data4 talks
Events7
Conferences3
Talks11
Years active2019–2026
Miles between events9,6767 in-person events · 1 country

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • PASS Data Community Summit (formerly PASS Summit)
  • DataTune
  • SQLSaturday

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Nov 9, 2026PASS Summit West 2026PASS Data Community Summit (formerly PASS Summit)speakerRead Committed Is Cruel by Default
as Darling Data
Nov 9, 2026PASS Summit West 2026PASS Data Community Summit (formerly PASS Summit)preconT-SQL That Doesn't Suck: Solving Performance and Concurrency Problems
as Darling Data
You know how to write T-SQL that works. It compiles, it returns rows, nobody's filed an incident yet. But "works" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that…Show less

You know how to write T-SQL that works. It compiles, it returns rows, nobody's filed an incident yet. But "works" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence, and production has a way of finding out what you got away with in dev.

May 7, 2026PASS Summit East (Chicago) 2026PASS Data Community Summit (formerly PASS Summit)preconT-SQL That Doesn't Suck: Solving Performance and Concurrency Problems
as Darling Data
You know how to write T-SQL that works. It compiles, it returns rows, nobody's filed an incident yet. But "works" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that…Show less

You know how to write T-SQL that works. It compiles, it returns rows, nobody's filed an incident yet. But "works" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence, and production has a way of finding out what you got away with in dev.

May 7, 2026PASS Summit East (Chicago) 2026PASS Data Community Summit (formerly PASS Summit)speakerVector Defense: Engineering Reliable Search in SQL Server
as Darling Data
Vector search is rapidly becoming a core feature of modern data platforms, powering RAG, semantic search, and AI-driven applications. SQL Server 2025 brings…Show less

Vector search is rapidly becoming a core feature of modern data platforms, powering RAG, semantic search, and AI-driven applications. SQL Server 2025 brings native vector types and DiskANN indexing directly into the database engine.

Mar 6, 2026DataTune 2026DataTuneworkshopAdvanced T-SQL Triage: The Art of Fixing Terrible Code

You’ve seen it before: the procedure that looks like it was generated by an AI trained on Stack Overflow and despair. It’s got MERGE.

Mar 6, 2026DataTune 2026DataTunetalkFor a Few Rows More: Mastering Row Goals in SQL Server
Nov 4, 2024PASS Data Community Summit 2024PASS Data Community Summit (formerly PASS Summit)preconUntitled
Mar 8, 2024DataTune 2024DataTuneworkshopThe Foundations Of SQL Server Performance Tuning
Mar 8, 2024DataTune 2024DataTunetalkThe SQL Server Performance Tasting Menu
Nov 2, 2019SQLSaturday Oregon #920SQLSaturday—The SQL Server Performance Tasting Menu
You’re a DBA or Developer, and you’ve been using SQL Server for a few years. You know there are different ways to make queries faster, but you’re not sure when…Show less

You’re a DBA or Developer, and you’ve been using SQL Server for a few years. You know there are different ways to make queries faster, but you’re not sure when to use them.

Apr 6, 2019SQLSaturday Madison #842SQLSaturday—Query Optimization Explained in 15 Demos

You've got the hang of writing queries and creating indexes, but once you hit F5 you have no idea what's going to happen. * Why did I get that plan?

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Aaron Cutshall4—2026
Andy Yun4—2026
Ben Miller4—2026
Kellyn Gorman4—2026
Kevin Feasel4—2026
Kristyna Ferris4—2026
Arneh Eskandari3—2026
Bob Ward3—2026
Chris Hyde3—2026
Grant Fritchey3—2026
Joshua Higginbotham3—2026
Matt Gordon3—2026
Akshata Revankar2—2026
Allison Baker2—2026
Amit Arora2—2026

Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.