22-25 April 2026 
SQLBits 2023
The SQL Leadership Panel
Bring all your questions about the strategy and future of Microsoft SQL to the leadership team of Microsoft in a panel hosted by Bob Ward, Principal Architect at Microsoft
Bring all your questions about the strategy and future of Microsoft SQL to the leadership team of Microsoft in a panel hosted by Bob Ward, Principal Architect at Microsoft
Bob Ward's previous sessions
Inside SQL Server 2025 Part 1 - 2026
Inside SQL Server 2025 Part 2 - 2026
SQL Server Versioning Explained - 2026
Inside the SQL Server Transaction Log - Part 1 - 2025
Inside the SQL Server Transaction Log - Part 2 - 2025
Keynote: Transform Data into Competitive Edge with Azure - 2025
A Deep Dive into SQL database in Microsoft Fabric - 2025
SQL Server 2025 Community Edition - 2025
SQL Server 2025 Engine Deep Dive - 2025
SQL Server 2025: The AI-ready enterprise database from ground to cloud - 2025
Meet the Azure Data Leadership team - 2025
SQL Server 2025 and AMD in the era of AI - 2025
SQLBits 2024 Opening Keynote - 2024
What You Should Know About Always On Availability Groups - 2024
Welcome to the world of SQL Copilots - 2024
Come see your SQL Perfmon in the cloud - 2024
The Microsoft Data Leadership Panel - 2024
SQL Server and Windows Server Better together on Azure - 2024
Meet the PG: SQL Leadership - 2024
Ask the Expert - Group A (Fri, 16:20 to 16:40) - 2024
Debugging SQL Server - 2023
The SQL Leadership Panel - 2023
SQL Server 2022 and the Wheel of Power - 2023
SQL Server 2022 hidden gems - 2023
The Kingdom of AdventureWorks Calls for Aid - 2023
Meet the PG: SQL Leadership - 2023
Platform Innovations with SQL Server 2022 + Intel - 2023
Introducing SQL Server 2022 - 2022
How to Build Secure, Scalable, and Highly Available Applications with Azure SQL Database - 2022
SQL Server 2022: The hybrid data platform - 2022
AMA with the Microsoft Engineering team hosted by Bob Ward - 2022
Learn SQL through architecture - 2022
Keynote - 2022
Meet the PG: Azure Data - 2022
SQL Server 2019: The Modern Data Platform - 2020
Inside SQL Server on Kubernetes - 2020
SQL Server to Azure SQL: Performance and Availability - 2020
Inside SQL Server 2019 - 2019
Inside SQL Server Containers - 2019
Inside SQL Server 2019 Polybase - 2019
Experience SQL Server on Linux and Containers - 2018
Experience SQL Server 2017: The Modern Database Platform - 2018
Adaptive query processing in SQL databases - 2018
SQL Server 2016 It Just Runs Faster - 2017
Enhancements that will make your SQL Server roar-SP1 Ed. - 2017
Keep Your Environment Always On with SQL Server 2016 - 2017
Troubleshooting the Memory of SQL Server - 2015
Deploying SQL Server with Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine - 2015
Windows Azure SQL Database Troubleshooting - 2013
Sanjay Mishra's previous sessions
Building AI ready applications - 2024
The Microsoft Data Leadership Panel - 2024
JSON - a first class citizen in Azure SQL DB - 2024
Meet the PG: SQL Leadership - 2024
From the Classroom to the Boardroom – Azure SQL DB through Demos - 2023
The SQL Leadership Panel - 2023
The Kingdom of AdventureWorks Calls for Aid - 2023
Meet the PG: SQL Leadership - 2023
Meet the PG: Azure SQL - 2023
Optimizing your Azure SQL Database workloads - 2020
HADR for SQL Server on Linux - 2017
How customers are using R in SQL Server 2016 - 2016
Erin Stellato's previous sessions
SSMS 21 Spotlight: What's new and why it matters, Part I - 2025
SSMS 21 Spotlight: What's new and why it matters, Part II - 2025
Maximizing what's new in SQL tools and their Copilots - 2025
SQL Server 2025 Engine Deep Dive - 2025
Getting Started with Troubleshooting Query Performance - 2024
Stabilizing Performance with Query Store - 2024
SQLBits 2024 Opening Keynote - 2024
What You've Been Missing in SSMS - 2024
Meet the PG: SQL tools - 2024
Parameter Sensitive Plan Optimization in SQL 2022 ... As Cool as it Sounds? - 2023
Query Store Best Practices - 2023
The SQL Leadership Panel - 2023
From Your Couch to the Cloud: When and Why to Choose the Azure Portal - 2023
Azure Data Studio and the Surprises Inside - 2023
Meet the PG: Just Use Extended Events Already with Erin Stellato - 2023
Query Store Best Practices - 2022
Erin & Monica’s Favorite SQL Stuff - 2022
Options for Proactively Managing Statistics in SQL Server - 2022
Why You Need Query Store - 2022
Meet the SQL Tools team - 2022
Stop Tuning Queries and Start Tuning Your Workload - 2021
Stop Tuning Queries and Start Tuning Your Workload - 2020
Why You Need Query Store - 2020
Plan Stability with Automatic Tuning in SQL Server and Azure - 2019
Extending your use of Extended Events - 2019
Kicking & Screaming: Replacing Profiler with Extended Events - 2018
Niko Neugebauer's previous sessions
Azure SQL MI & Fabric Fusion: A speed-session - 2024
Azure SQL Managed Instance Deep Dive by Microsoft Product Group - 2024
Fly at Mach-speed with Azure SQL Managed Instance - 2024
Discover what's new in Azure SQL Managed Instance through an exciting Demo Party! - 2024
Advancing the DBA's Role in the Cloud: In the Cockpit of Azure SQL Managed Instance - 2024
Meet the PG: Azure SQL Managed Instance - 2024
Ask the Expert - Group A (Sat, 9:00 to 9:50) - 2024
Azure SQL MI End-to-end Demo Party for DBAs and Devs - 2023
Secure networking with Azure and Azure SQL Managed Instance - 2023
The SQL Leadership Panel - 2023
Azure SQL Managed Instance Roadmap - 2023
Meet the PG: Azure SQL Managed Instance - 2023
What's new in Azure SQL MI - 2022
What's New in Azure SQL MI - 2022
SQL Managed Instance - Demos Only - 2022
Meet the PG: Managed Instance with Dani Ljepava and Niko Neugebauer - 2022
Batch Execution Mode on the Rowstore - 2019
Columnstore Indexes Worst Practices & Limitations - 2017
Columnstore killed the OLAP Star-Did it really? - 2017
Using CISL for getting the insights on Columnstore Indexes - 2016
Understanding & Solving Columnstore Problems - 2015
Getting Your Data into NodeXL - 2015
ETL Patterns with Clustered Columnstore Indexes - 2014
Dynamic MSBI content generation - 2013