Bob Ward
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where they keep going back
- SQLBits4 editions2020–2024
- Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ2 editions2022–2025
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who talks about the same things
- Asad Khan10 talks
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- Muazma Zahid8 talks
- Anna Hoffman12 talks
- Dilip Ramachandran6 talks
- Buck Woody11 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Developing AI Applications with SQL AI: Ground to Cloud to Fabric | Visual Studio Live! @ Microsoft HQ 2025 | 2025-08-04 |
SQL Server 2025 adds a native vector data type, T‑SQL functions to call models and generate embeddings, and DiskANN‑based vector indexes so semantic… | ||
| Keynote: Building Applications with the Modern SQL Using AI and Microsoft Fabric | Visual Studio Live! at Microsoft HQ 2024 | 2024-08-05 |
Concrete claims and live demos: Azure SQL runs 13 million databases, handles 45 trillion queries per month, and connects 6.6 million cores via Arc. The session… | ||
| The power of AI and Copilot for Azure Databases | Microsoft Build 2024 | 2024-05-21 |
Announces vector search in Azure Cosmos DB using DiskANN (compressed vectors in memory, full-fidelity graph on SSD) with stable recall under heavy… | ||
| Power AI apps and develop rich experiences with Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Build 2024 | 2024-05-21 |
Azure SQL Database claims direct support for RAG and vector workflows by integrating Azure AI Search and Azure OpenAI, and demos show it actually works: a… | ||
| Accelerate insights with real-time Azure SQL data and Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Build 2024 | 2024-05-21 |
Mirroring copies Azure SQL Database (initial snapshot + incremental changes read from the transaction log) into Microsoft Fabric’s OneLake so analytics run… | ||
| Welcome to the world of SQL Copilots | SQLBits 2024 | 2024-03-19 |
Azure SQL Copilot demos show two portal experiences: an Azure Copilot sidecar with about 40 skills ready (55 total planned) and a natural language to SQL… | ||
| Come see your SQL Perfmon in the cloud | SQLBits 2024 | 2024-03-19 |
A new managed service called Database Watcher collects diagnostic telemetry from Azure SQL databases, managed instances, elastic pools and replicas, stores it… | ||
| The Microsoft Data Leadership Panel | SQLBits 2024 | 2024-03-19 |
A live leadership Q&A focuses on products and policy: panelists take unscripted questions about Azure SQL Database features and roadmap, Fabric team… | ||
| SQL Server and Windows Server Better together on Azure | SQLBits 2024 | 2024-03-19 |
Demonstrations show hot patching without reboots (Xbox: 1,000 servers patched in 48 hours with zero downtime), a new Azure update manager that applies SQL… | ||
| SQL Server 2022 and the Wheel of Power | SQLBits 2023 | 2023-03-14 |
SQL Server 2022 ships cloud connectivity and on‑prem tools: Azure Arc enabled SQL Server installs a connected machine agent, monitoring agent and SQL extension… | ||
| The SQL Leadership Panel | SQLBits 2023 | 2023-03-14 |
Leadership team lays out concrete road map: on‑premine SQL continues with SQL Server 2022 in on‑prem receiving cloud parity of features (Ledger, JSON… | ||
| Debugging SQL Server | SQLBits 2023 | 2023-03-14 |
Shows how the product team reproduces and diagnoses real crashes and hangs using concrete tools: loading mdmp files with the Windows Debugger, running dot ecxr… | ||
| Platform Innovations with SQL Server 2022 + Intel | SQLBits 2023 | 2023-03-14 |
SQL Server 2022 adds native integration with Intel Quick Assist Technology so backups can offload compression to hardware or fall back to software; demo shows… | ||
| SQL Server 2022 hidden gems | SQLBits 2023 | 2023-03-14 |
Live demos show new diagnostic and ops features: query_abort XEvent captures the aborted query text plus T‑SQL call stacks (using Arvin’s call‑stack tool) so… | ||
| Choose Azure SQL Database and Learn What Every Developer Should Know | Visual Studio Live! Microsoft HQ 2022 | 2022-08-08 |
Shows concrete choices and demos: use Azure.Identity managed identities for passwordless connectivity with one-line GetTokenAsync tokens, enable Microsoft… | ||
| The Kingdom of AdventureWorks Calls for Aid | SQLBits 2022 | 2022-03-08 |
Live demos show Azure Arc giving free inventory and Defender surfacing a SQL injection, Intelligent Query Processing using DOP feedback to drop parallelism… | ||
| Welcome to the world of SQL Copilots | SQLBits 2022 | 2022-03-08 |
Azure adds a Copilot for Azure SQL that demos about 40 skills (team cites ~55 total) and uses Azure OpenAI without fine‑tuning on customer data. It queries… | ||
| Come see your SQL Perfmon in the cloud | SQLBits 2022 | 2022-03-08 |
Database Watcher is a managed monitoring pipeline that pulls query store, >200 perf counters and 70+ views from databases, managed instances, elastic pools and… | ||
| SQL Server and Windows Server Better together on Azure | SQLBits 2022 | 2022-03-08 |
Demonstrations show Windows Server Azure Edition hot patching that applies two real updates in seconds with no reboot versus minutes and downtime for… | ||
| Keynote: SQL Edge to Cloud | DEVintersection 2021 Orlando | 2021-06-08 |
Claim: SQL is a single engine from IoT to cloud that actually runs on tiny devices and vast hyperscale stores. Demos show 500 megabyte footprint SQL on ARM… | ||
| Special | DEVintersection 2021 Orlando | 2021-06-08 |
Recommends starting with General Purpose for new apps and using the Microsoft Learn sandbox to try all SKUs, explains Azure Hybrid Benefit as a checkbox plus… | ||
| SQL Server Containers | SQL Server Virtual Conference 2021 | 2021-01-29 |
Explains running SQL Server Linux images with Docker and Dockerfile custom images, shows copying a .bak into /var/opt/mssql, restoring inside the container and… | ||
| SQL Server to Azure SQL: Performance and Availability | SQLBits 2020 | 2020-09-29 |
Covers concrete migration choices: backup cadence (full weekly, log every 5–10 min, diff every 12 h) and RAGRS geo-restore, service tiers (general purpose vs… | ||
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