22-25 April 2026

Ami Levin

Ami is a seasoned instructor, data tier architect, relational modeler, and SQL developer.

Ami Levin's Sessions

SE7EN deadly sins of database designSQLBits 2022

Whether you know it or not, pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth plague your database design. They convolute your queries and are detrimental to database integrity, performance and scalability. After this session, you'll never look at database design the same way.

Data loading at warp speedsSQLBits 2013

Do you struggle to reduce those frustrating long hours it takes to load data? Are your time windows for loading becoming too short for comfort? If so – you simply can’t afford to miss this session…

A heap of clustersSQLBits 2012

An in-depth dive into physical table structures

Where did I put my keys?SQLBits 2011

If you want to see DBAs fight - ask them what is better: using IDs or native keys? This old debate has been troubling database designers since the days of Dr. Codd and Chris Date. Are you ready to hear the "truth"?

Physical Join OperatorsSQLBits 2010

See how the optimiser chooses the operators it does through real world examples.