GroupBy Conference is coming back May 25-26 for it’s Spring 2021 Edition. There will be 20+ FREE data sessions spread across the two days. Sessions for Americas’ time zones will be on May 25 and European time zones on May 26.
If you haven’t heard of it before, it was founded by Brent Ozar ( b | t ) back in the day and features some big speakers in the SQL Server community each year. Just check out the lineup below ??
You can register for the event and checkout the other details here:
https://mailchi.mp/groupby/may-2021-reg-d
| GROUPBY AMERICAS – MAY 25 | ||
| TIME (IN UTC) | DBA TRACK SESSION | DEV & BI TRACK SESSION |
| 13:30 | SQL Edge to Cloud Keynote — Anna Hoffman (on Dev & BI track) | SQL Edge to Cloud Keynote — Anna Hoffman |
| 14:30 | Learn to Effectively Use Extended Events — Grant Fritchey | Which Azure SQL Database Options Should I choose? — Jes Schultz |
| 16:00 | How to Audit SQL Server for Free — Josephine Bush | Notebooks, PowerShell and Excel Automation — Rob Sewell |
| 17:30 | SolarWinds Lunchtime Session | T-SQL User-Defined Functions, or: How to kill performance in one, easy step — Hugo Kornelis |
| 18:15 | PureStorage Presents: Solving Data Protection and Recovery Challenges for SQL Server Databases — Argenis Fernandez | T-SQL User-Defined Functions, or: How to kill performance in one, easy step — Hugo Kornelis (continued) |
| 19:00 | Myths and Misconceptions about Locking and Blocking — Klaus Aschenbrenner | Are you drunk SQL Server? Where did that estimate come from? — Magnus Ahlkvist |
| 20:30 | SQL Admin Best Practices with DMVs — William Assaf | Modern T-SQL for Better Performance — Kathi Kellenberger |
| 22:00 | Dallas DBAs Presents: “Black Arts” Index Maintenance – GUIDs v.s. Fragmentation – They’re not the problem… WE ARE! — Jeff Moden | |
| 23:30 | Become an Expert in Managing Your Tempdb — Deepthi Goguri | |
| GROUPBY EUROPE – MAY 26 | ||
| TIME (IN UTC) | DBA TRACK SESSION | DEV & BI TRACK SESSION |
| 07:30 | Not my Problem(?) – Azure Networking 101 for Azure SQL Server DBAs — Alexander Arvidsson | Dynamic Search Queries in T-SQL – The Ninja way — Eitan Blumin |
| 09:00 | How I Cut My Maintenance Window by 80% — Paresh Motiwala | All you wanted to know about Collations — Erland Sommarskog |
| 10:30 | SQL Server and PowerShell walk into a bar… — Mikey Bronowski | In-memory OLTP Design Principles in Microsoft SQL Server — Torsten Strauß |
| 12:00 | Redgate Presents: Getting started with Extended Events — Kathi Kellenberger | Simplify data management with partitioning — Uwe Ricken |
| 12:45 | “We’re all born naked and the rest is drag”: An Introduction to Diversity and Inclusion — Cecilia Juddman | Simplify data management with partitioning — Uwe Ricken (continued) |
| 13:30 | A deep dive into Docker — Andrew Pruski | Visual Studio database projects: more than just source control — Chris Johnson |
| 15:00 | 6 Query Tuning Techniques That Will Solve 75% Of Your Performance Problems – v2 — Amit Bansal | MS SQL New functions, syntaxes, tips & tricks — Damir Matešic |
| 16:30 | SQL Server and Snapshots: Everything You Were Afraid To Ask — Argenis Fernandez |
After the live event, we upload all the content onto YouTube for anyone who missed a session or just wants to check it out after the fact. (You don’t need to be signed up – you can see all the previous sessions here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEHf_UKwG3GMkb9wIVBTeQA ) Hope to see y’all there.
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