Dear Data Platform Community,

COVID-19 has the world firmly under control and of course our events from PASS Deutschland e.V. are also affected. Unfortunately, we had to make the decision to cancel SQL Saturday Munich 2020, but still want to serve the Microsoft Data Platform Community with high-quality content and take the opportunity to continue the new virtual event format.

After the success of the Data Blaster Community Conference (DBCC) in June, which was the alternative to SQL Saturday Rheinland, we will be organizing an event with a similar setup. This time it will be the DBCC International Version!

On Friday October 23rd, 2020 the time has come to continue the virtual conference format on an international level as an alternative to SQL Saturday Munich. In three parallel tracks, 21 short lectures are planned for you, which represent many topics from the Data Platform in a varied format and provide exciting content for both beginners and advanced participants.

Our goal is not to simply deliver „normal“ conference presentations online, but to present you with an entertaining online conference. The Teams links that you need to participate in the conference will be inserted on this page a few days before the conference. By the way, you don’t have to register, anyone who clicks on the corresponding team link can simply participate.

Click here for the descriptions of the sessions

The links to join the sessions through Microsoft Teams will be posted on this page shortly before the event.

Track 1 – DBATrack 2 – CloudTrack 3 – Analytics
09:00Introduction
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09:45A Python primer for DBAs
André Kamman
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Moderation: Alexander Klein
5 shades of data flow
Stefan Kirner
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Moderation: Erik Monchen
Power BI Premium – Practical Tips for making the most of it
Benni De Jagere
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Moderation: Björn Peters
10:30Master of Puppets: Data Services on Azure – with Azure CLI
Frank Geisler
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Moderation: Oliver Engels
Azure SQL anywhere. An Introduction to Azure Arc enabled Data Services
Ben Weissman
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Moderation: André Kamman
Power BI – The Admin Portal
Thomas Martens
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Moderation: Conny Matthesius
11:15Change your skills – from an onpremise DBA to a cloud DBA
Björn Peters
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Moderation: Stefan Kirner
Azure Functions – a short introduction to serverless computing in Cloud-borne ETL processes
Benjamin Kettner
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Moderation: Gerhard Brueckl
Monitoring service quality with Artificial Intelligence
Alexander Klein
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Moderation: Benni De Jagere
13:15Benchmarking in the cloud
Gianluca Sartori
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Moderation: Björn Peters
Use ADF dynamically to orchestrate your data load
Erik Monchen
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Moderation: Benjamin Kettner
From XL to S – Reduce your Power BI model size by 90%!
Nikola Ilic
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Moderation: Thomas Martens
14:00User Definied Functions – From SQL 2000 – SQL 2019
Uwe Ricken
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Moderation: Conny Matthesius
Data Lake Analytics for the Admin
Tillmann Eitelberg &
Oliver Engels
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Model Your Data Like a Star in Power BI
Markus Ehrenmüller-Jensen
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Moderation: Erik Monchen
14:45Monitoring and Troubleshooting SQL Server environments using Free community tools
Javier Villegas
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Moderation: Frank Geisler
Azure SQL Performance Fundamentals
Bob Ward
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Moderation: Benjamin Weissman
Analyze Azure data using T-SQL and Synapse SQL serverless pool
Jovan Popovic
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Moderation: Uwe Ricken
15:30Understanding the Statistics in SQL Server
Deepthi Goguri
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Moderation: Erik Monchen
Networking, Azure SQL Database, and Private Link: what you need to know
Anna Hoffman
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Moderation: Benjamin Weissman
Unlocking New Visualizations and Features in Power BI
Reid Havens
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Moderation: Alexander Karl
16:15DBCC International After-chat
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