Overview
SQLBits is an annual conference for data professionals, covering a full spectrum of job functions and skills. It features sessions across disciplines like AI, Analytics, Data Science, Data Engineering, and Application Development. Attendees can find content on optimizing data platforms, using Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, SQL Server, and other cloud technologies.
Schedule
Turning insights into action: The art of data communication
Learn how to design reports that matter and turn insights into action. This PreCon covers understanding your audience, creating impactful reports, and using storytelling and communication techniques to ensure long-term impact.
Understanding DAX Pillars
DAX is a simple language (but not easy at all). Its pillars, though, need to be clearly understood in order not to get confused when they interact between them in your measures, calculated columns or calculated tables. In this session the five DAX pillars (filter context, row context, context transition, iterators and expanded tables) will be explained, with examples, one by one first and then in interaction between them. Examples will be in increasing complexity order.
From Load to Logic: Designing for Performance in Microsoft Fabric Warehouses
This training day provides an end-to-end approach to designing high-performing Microsoft Fabric Warehouses. It covers loading strategies, schema and query design, performance features, Workload Management, and deployment practices, with a strong focus on performance and cost efficiency. Real project examples and feedback from data engineering teams illustrate how design decisions behave in practice. Attendees leave with a clear mental model that enables informed, scalable, and predictable wareho
Adapting to Fabric: A SQL Server Practitioner’s Path Forward
SQL Server skills transfer to Microsoft Fabric. In a one-day workshop covering Lakehouses and Warehouses, you’ll dive into engines, query plans, stats, and Delta Lake, and leave confident applying what you already know.
First Steps in DAX Optimization
A full day dedicated to optimize DAX code and semantic models in Power BI
Mastering AI in Power BI
A full end-to-end masterclass on AI in Power BI. During this training day, we’ll cover every corner of AI in Power BI, from preparing data for AI to bringing your Power BI AI assets to life with AI.
Becoming a Master Builder: Creating the Ultimate BI Developer Toolbox
Power BI Desktop shines with the right tooling. This workshop dives into external tools, governance services, modern modeling features, and scalable self-service patterns so you can build reliable, high-quality semantic models end to end.
From Vectors to Agents: Building AI-Powered Solutions with Microsoft SQL - Training Day
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.
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Wednesday 21 December 2022
Turning insights into action: The art of data communication
Learn how to design reports that matter and turn insights into action. This PreCon covers understanding your audience, creating impactful reports, and using storytelling and communication techniques to ensure long-term impact.