Erin Stellato

Mastering performance in Microsoft SQL has long required experience and time-consuming analysis. From Copilots to autonomous agents, AI can dramatically accelerate troubleshooting and save valuable time.

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Are you trying to keep up with the pace of AI today especially when it comes to working with your data in SQL, ground to cloud to fabric? In this session you will not only learn fundamentals like vectors, AI models, prompts, model hosting, and RAG.

SQL Copilots are reshaping how users interact with SQL databases by accelerating query development, improving workflow efficiency, and enabling natural language interaction with complex SQL databases.

Join us for an inspiring panel discussion featuring leading women in the field of data. This session will cover a range of topics from technical career discussions & guidance, overcoming challenges, the value of a strong network, where tech is going in the future.

Explore how to build enterprise-grade Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems by harnessing the power of SQL AI Agents, vector-based search, and Microsoft Fabric. This session dives into modern architectures that combine structured data with large language model (LLM) capabilities to enable real-time, intelligent, and secure applications.

Join us for an engaging “Ask Me Anything” session with the engineers from the SQL Server, Azure SQL, SQL in Fabric, and Tools teams. This interactive Q&A offers a unique opportunity to connect directly with the experts behind Microsoft’s data platforms and tooling.

Whether your data lives in Fabric, Azure, or SQL Server, you likely have a series of tasks to complete with not a lot of time to get them done. You need to know the right tool to use (and why!) as well as how to leverage its AI capabilities to create more time in your day. In this session we'll...

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.

Data and AI are reshaping industries, and women leaders are at the forefront of this transformation. In "Trailblazers: Women Leading the Future of Data and AI," hear from an inspiring panel of innovators who are driving change, breaking barriers, and shaping the future of technology.

Unlock the future of data productivity with a hands-on exploration of AI-powered Copilots! In this session, we’ll dive into Copilot in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), Microsoft Copilot in Azure with NL2SQL and SQL, and Copilot for SQL Databases in Microsoft Fabric.

With the Preview 1 release of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 21 in November, the SQL Tools team made available the biggest set of updates to SSMS in recent memory, including numerous requests that customers have been waiting to see...for years in some cases. In this session we'll show off what's new in SSMS 21, what's in progress, and what we have planned for tooling support for SQL 2025.

Explore the future of writing T-SQL code and managing SQL databases with an end-to-end walkthrough of Copilot in SSMS. In this session, we’ll dive into Copilot in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to understand how Copilot meets you where you are, whether you support SQL databases on premises or in the cloud.

We’ll cover Query Store end-to-end in this full day workshop using real-world examples based on customer issues resolved over the last 3 years to help you tune your workload, whether it's on-prem or in the cloud.

This session will discuss how to look at your workload holistically using a variety of methods, so that you can target and address patterns in your code and query plans, rather than troubleshooting one query at a time.

If you have heard about Query Store but don't know what it can offer, or why you really need it, this session will answer those questions and demonstrate the value of this feature that continues to evolve.

One of the most highly anticipated new features in the SQL Server 2016 release was Query Store. If you've ever had to drop everything to troubleshoot a sudden drop in performance, then this is a feature you want in your environment.