Ryan Adams

It's the alphabet soup of architectures so how do you make heads or tails of it all? Do these architectures even work for your business or are they all industry buzz words? We will look at all three of these architectures along with their pros and cons and I'll share real customer scenarios and why they chose the route they did.

You're a data analyst or architect charged with driving business outcomes handed down from your leadership. You need an end-to-end analytics solution to handle various data types and sources. It is a complex task that often requires stitching multiple technologies together. This session will show how Microsoft Fabric makes this easy. You will ingest data, clean it, create a report, and even use AI to get data insights. The focus is on how the parts work together to create the end solution that will not only satisfy today's leadership requests but easily handle future requests too.

You're looking to configure an MSDTC in your highly available environment, but the different ways to set it up are confusing. The choices and paths they each lead you down are convoluted depending on Availability Groups, Failover Cluster Instances, on-prem versus Azure, and even between versions of both SQL and the OS. This session will give you that clarity as we cover everything from how MSDTC works to why the local MSDTC is NOT highly available and how to avoid getting a Suspect Database.