Not everyone can travel to user group meetings and SQL Saturday events (well, no one can right now, but that’s beside the point). New speakers need their community to make space for them to try things out, make mistakes, and receive constructive feedback.
We realized this year that our two guiding principles may conflict with each other if the rockstars of our community all submit sessions, how can we develop new speakers?
Thanks to our Junior Speaker program, and that indeed did happen.
There will be two concurrent tracks for both GroupBy Americas and GroupBy Europe as we had done in our last event. They are as follows:
GroupBy Americas – October 27 – Database Administration Track
| 13:30 UTC | Managing SQL Server the easy way with dbatools — Daniel Suarez |
| 15:00 UTC | High Availability/Disaster Recovery 101 — Glenn Berry |
| 16:30 UTC | Getting Started with PowerShell for DBAs — Harry Chandra |
| 18:00 UTC | Keynote with Vicky Harp |
| 19:30 UTC | Harness PowerShell to manage SQL Server — Garry Bargsley |
| 21:00 UTC | Top 5 Skills a DBA will need in 2020 — Gethyn Ellis |
| 22:30 UTC | Free Pizza & Beer… And Other Mistakes — Andy Mallon |
GroupBy Americas – October 27 – Database Development Track
| 13:30 UTC | A Practical Starter Guide to SQL Notebooks — Deborah Melkin |
| 15:00 UTC | 6 Query Tuning Techniques to Solve 75% of Performance Problems — Amit Bansal |
| 16:30 UTC | Advanced Plan Explorer Usage for Tuning Execution Plans — Andy Yun |
| 18:00 UTC | Keynote with Vicky Harp |
| 19:30 UTC | Advanced data security (from 2016 to 2019 new features) — Ronen Ariely |
| 21:00 UTC | Understanding Statistics in SQL Server — Deepthi Goguri |
| 22:30 UTC | Free Pizza & Beer… And Other Mistakes — Andy Mallon |
GroupBy Europe – October 28 – Database Administration Track
| 11:00 UTC | Azure SQL Database Administration for the on-prem DBA — Ahmad Osama |
| 12:30 UTC | Working with Very Large Tables Like a Pro in SQL Server 2019 — Guy Glantser |
| 14:00 UTC | dbatools’ recipes for Data Professionals — Cláudio Silva |
| 15:30 UTC | Monitoring and Troubleshooting SQL Server environments using Free community tools — Javier Villegas |
| 17:00 UTC | Baking Extended Events recipes without breaking a sweat — Gianluca Sartori |
GroupBy Europe – October 28 – Database Dev & BI Track
| 11:00 UTC | A Complete Introduction to Azure Data Factory — Paul Andrew |
| 12:30 UTC | From XL to S – Reduce your Power BI model size by 90%! — Nikola Ilic |
| 14:00 UTC | Azure SQL: What to use when — Anna Hoffman |
| 15:30 UTC | A full intro to Azure Devops projects in 60 minutes or less — Kevin Chant, Sander Stad |
| 17:00 UTC | Advanced data types – JSON — Damir Matešić |
We are undoubtedly thrilled to see so much good content. We’ll be using zoom webinars again and trying out some of the great features to get people engaged. I’ll post more information on that as it takes shape. We’ve also given speakers 90 minutes to get really deep into their content. That was a direct request from most of the European speakers out of last October’s event. We’re testing that out, and we’re curious what you think.
Like always, this content will be edited and posted for free on the GroupBy’s Youtube channel.
Thank you to everyone who submitted this year. We can’t thank you enough for making GroupBy what it is.
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Blythe
