22-25 April 2026

Mladen Andzic

Joined Microsoft as a Program Manager in Azure SQL product group in 2016, after fifteen years in business analysis and product management, mostly in the financial industry. He's been working on Azure SQL Managed Instance since its early days in areas of business continuity and disaster recovery, data virtualization, and data mobility.

Mladen Andzic's Sessions

From Vectors to Agents: Building AI-Powered Solutions with Microsoft SQL - Training DaySQLBits 2026

Unlock the power of your own data by combining Microsoft SQL (SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, or SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric) with cutting-edge AI techniques. In this workshop, you’ll learn about embeddings and vector search and why they matter for modern AI applications. We’ll guide you through generating embeddings using similarity search to retrieve the most relevant data. We’ll implement the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pattern by calling a Chat model, then explore its limitations. Evolve into Agentic RAG and create an orchestrator to intelligently choose between running semantic search or writing a SQL query to answer complex requests. Learn to secure data access so that only authorized information is available to AI agents using Row-Level Security By the end, you’ll have built an end-to-end solution that combines SQL’s reliability with AI’s intelligence and be well prepared for SQL AI Developer certification exam.

From Vectors to Agents: Building AI-Powered Solutions with Microsoft SQLSQLBits 2026

Unlock the power of your own data by combining Microsoft SQL (SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, or SQL Database in Microsoft Fabric) with cutting-edge AI techniques. In this workshop, you’ll learn about embeddings and vector search and why they matter for modern AI applications. We’ll guide you through generating embeddings using similarity search to retrieve the most relevant data. We’ll implement the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pattern by calling a Chat model, then explore its limitations. Evolve into Agentic RAG and create an orchestrator to intelligently choose between running semantic search or writing a SQL query to answer complex requests. Learn to secure data access so that only authorized information is available to AI agents using Row-Level Security By the end, you’ll have built an end-to-end solution that combines SQL’s reliability with AI’s intelligence and be well prepared for SQL AI Developer certification exam.

HA/DR in Action: Application Resiliency with SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQLSQLBits 2026

Modern applications need databases with high availability and resilience. You can build the most resilient databases with highest availability using the latest capabilities of SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL. In this session we will deep dive through architectures, configurations, and our industry leading SLAs which will help you meet your availability, resilience and disaster recovery needs.

SQL Managed Instance: Fully managed SQL Server in AzureSQLBits 2020

Come and hear about the best practices of cloud migration, the latest enhancements of Azure SQL Database Managed Instance, and the future roadmap.

Failover groups under the magnifying glassSQLBits 2020

Learn about internals of the Failover Groups as a BCDR feature recommended for the critical database workloads that must survive region-wide outages and recover instantaneously.