22-25 April 2026 
Magnus Ahlkvist
Magnus works as an independent SQL Server consultant at his company Transmokopter SQL AB, with everything from on-premise to cloud databases, from database design and T-SQL programming to infrastructure planning and administration, from transaction intensive databases to data warehousing workloads.
When paid work stops, community work starts. Magnus is a long time co-leader for SQL Server User Group Sweden, he's organising SQL Friday every Friday noon and he's speaking and volunteering on data events, small and large. In October 2020, Magnus was awarded the Microsoft Data Platform MVP award.
Magnus Ahlkvist's Sessions
An introduction to SQL Server database projectsSQLBits 2026
Visual Studio database projects have existed for a long time, but they are widely under-used. This session will get you started and help you avoid a few pit-falls.
Automation for DBAs and database developers - One Day Training DaySQLBits 2026
Learn how to use PowerShell and Azure DevOps to automate re-occuring DBA- and database DevOps tasks such as backup tests, SQL instance deployment, dacpac deployments, unit testing databases.
Everything you need to know about Temporal TablesSQLBits 2026
Temporal tables in SQL Server are used to save versions of data rows in a table. The built-in functionality replaces complicated application code for versioning and the automated timestamps can be used to load SCD type 2 dimensions in a warehouse.
Get Started with tSQLtSQLBits 2026
Unit testing of application code is obvious for most applications developers. Why is it not as wide spread for database objects such as schemas, stored procedures and functions? In this session you will get started with the tSQLt unit testing framework.
Learn about database projects in a daySQLBits 2026
Master Visual Studio (and VSCode) database projects and Azure DevOps pipelines for building, changing, testing and deploying SQL Server databases to test and to production.
SQL Noire – A Database Murder MysterySQLBits 2026
One hard-boiled DBA, one rogue developer, one dead database.
Step into the aftermath of a failed deployment, where our two protagonists examine the evidence and decipher the clues to get to the bottom of who, or what, killed the production database. Was it a bug, an honest mistake, or was it something more sinister? As this riveting story of lies and database corruption unravels, our investigators will uncover the shocking truth of what really happened that fateful Friday evening.