SQL Saturday San Diego

Thank You for Making SQL Saturday San Diego 2025 a huge Success!! SQL Saturday San Diego 2025 event went off without a hitch - and more than that, it was a resounding success. Events like these don’t just happen. They are built on the dedication of volunteers, the generosity of sponsors, the expertise of speakers, and the belief that a strong data community is worth investing in. From the bottom of our hearts, Eric and I want to extend our deepest thanks to everyone who made this event possible. Whether it was your time, your knowledge, your financial support, or simply showed up to learn and grow- you were part of something special. To our sponsors: Microsoft/AMD, Databricks, COZYROC, USD, Tessell, O’Reilly, SQLskills, UCSD, and Subway #51734 — thank you for believing in our vision and investing in this community. Your generous support brought this event to life. Our 2025 speakers- thank you for teaching, inspiring, and empowering our audience. Your impact will last well beyond your sessions. You’ve given our attendees tools, insight, and motivation to carry forward in their careers and contributions to the tech world: Andrew Madson, Dustin Vannoy, Ginger Grant, Iurii (Yuri) Iurchenko, Armando Lacerda, Thomas A.J. Hull, Zdravko Danev, Scott Reed, Ch. Ahmad Ali, Arun Reddy, Camilo Leon, Ike Ellis, Alvaro Costa-Neto, Scott Grzybowski, Alireza Mostafizi, and Warren Sifre. To our volunteers: Mahendra R, Adam Belkada, Casper Hsu, Grace Lopez, Miguel Ramirez, Tulay Muezzinoglu, Rick Davis, Eleana Bakman, and Hanns Hernandez- your behind-the-scenes efforts made this day run seamlessly. Your energy and dedication were the backbone of this event. To our attendees- thank you for showing up with curiosity and enthusiasm. Your presence made all the difference. We hope you’ll take what you learned, apply it, grow with it, and share it in your own circles. You are the reason this community thrives. A close friend once told me: “If you have a venue, sponsors, volunteers, and a date… you WILL have an event.” That simple truth, combined with unwavering support, is what brought SQL Saturday San Diego back stronger than ever. What began for me as a volunteer role in 2017 — when Eric was attending sessions — grew into the honor of carrying on the legacy of the late Phil Robinson for SQL SAT SD. I’m humbled to continue building this event in my home town, for our beautiful San Diego data community. To our extended SQL Saturday California family: Steve Rezhener, and Elaena Bakman (SQL SAT LA), Armando Lacerda (SQL SAT SV), and Maria (Mima) Lopez (SQL SAT OC) — your encouragement and guidance brought back the spirit and strength of this event after the challenges of COVID. You are true examples of leading with heart. Here’s to the continued growth of our SQL Saturday family, and to an even bigger, better SQL Saturday San Diego in 2026. With sincerest gratitude, Rebecca Renko Dycus & Eric Dycus Organizers, SQL Saturday San Diego

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2025 SQL Saturday in San Diego https://lnkd.in/gXPuXWiR Sponsor highlight: COZYROC SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) components, tasks, scripts and productivity tools. https://www.cozyroc.com #sqlsatsd #sqlsaturday #sandiego #dataevent #sponsorhightlight

Our favorite content for this week (0627)! How To Forecast Database Disk Capacity If You Don’t Have A Monitoring Tool by Edwin M Sarmiento https://buff.ly/wZoDZFD Identify and Clean Up SQL Server Plan Cache Bloat by Chandan Shukla https://buff.ly/Xk99Tfl Turbocharge SQL: The Art of Keeping Queries SARGable! by Michael Fuller https://buff.ly/K6twhzU One-Minute Pit Stop: SQL Server 2025’s On-Board Diagnostics by Michael Fuller https://buff.ly/nLFTI67 Moonlight as an AI Barista: Brewing Embeddings in SQL Server 2025 by Michael Fuller https://buff.ly/tIe8Rsh How To Identify Potential Data Loss When DBCC CHECKDB Reports Corruption by Edwin M Sarmiento https://buff.ly/89Gpxtq SQL Server 2025 – New Backup Magic by Andy Yun https://buff.ly/I6BrGcS Accelerated Database Recovery in SQL Server 2025 - SQL Server Consulting by Jordan Boich https://buff.ly/Exlqve0 More info: https://buff.ly/xEibhKy #ladataplatform #sqlserver2025 #hadr #checkdb #backupcompression #adr

In this session, I will share my journey in optimizing performance within large-scale software systems, drawing from my experience at Apple and previous roles. I’ll walk you through some of the strategies I’ve implemented to achieve significant performance improvements—like reducing publish times by 80% and minimizing incident rates using Kafka streaming and machine learning. I'll also discuss how we leveraged Kubernetes and AWS to enhance system performance and reliability. Whether you're looking to fine-tune existing systems or architect more efficient solutions, this session will provide actionable insights into improving performance at scale. Sai prasad Veluru Join us for this complimentary session on Saturday, June 28th, 2025, at UC SAN DIEGO EXTENDED STUDIES . Further info Information is available at: https://lnkd.in/gXPuXWiR Come join the fun, #sql #Azure #databricks #apache #fabric #datalake #aws

LangChain is a framework and platform for LLM app development.  They aim to provide an abstraction that allows your code to easily pivot and mix and match various pre-processors, language models, stores and agent platforms.  The library itself is enormous in breadth.  We will take a look at which abstractions are provided and how to use them.  We will ultimately answer whether their abstractions work, when to use it, and when to not bother. Scott Reed Reed Join us for this complimentary session on Saturday, June 28th, 2025, at UC SAN DIEGO EXTENDED STUDIES . Further info Information is available at: https://lnkd.in/gXPuXWiR Come join the fun, #sql #Azure #databricks #apache #fabric #datalake #aws

Unlock the power of AI and machine learning directly within your data platform. This session explores how Databricks seamlessly integrates SQL-driven analytics and SQL-powered batch inference with advanced machine learning, enabling organizations to build, train, and deploy models at scale—without moving data or managing complex infrastructure. We’ll cover basics of supervised machine learning and walk through a real-world use case that demonstrates end-to-end machine learning. We may also highlight Databricks' new AI features like Vector Search and Lakehouse Monitoring for GenAI applications. Attendees will learn: - The fundamentals of Lakehouse architecture and why it’s ideal for unifying data, analytics, and AI workloads. - How to accelerate the Machine Learning lifecycle—from data preparation and model training to deployment and monitoring—using Databricks’ SQL and MLflow. - When and why to leverage SQL for machine learning, and how batch inference can drive business value in practical scenarios. - Best practices for collaboration, governance, and scaling machine learning projects across teams. Ali Mostafizi Join us for this complimentary session on Saturday, June 28th, 2025, at UC SAN DIEGO EXTENDED STUDIES . Further info Information is available at: https://lnkd.in/gXPuXWiR Come join the fun, #sql #Azure #databricks #apache #fabric #datalake #aws

A comprehensive exploration of the intricacies of Data Lake Table Formats and their impact on business analytics. Data lake table formats are a critical component of modern data analytics. They provide a way to organize and manage data in a data lake, and they offer several benefits for business analytics, including: Scalability: Data lake table formats can scale to handle large amounts of data. Performance: Data lake table formats can improve the performance of queries on large datasets. Durability: Data lake table formats can ensure that data is durable and recoverable. Auditability: Data lake table formats can help to ensure that data is auditable and compliant. This presentation will explore the who, what, and why of data lake table formats. We will discuss the different data lake table formats, such as Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, and Delta Lake. We will also discuss the benefits of using data lake table formats for business analytics. By the end of this presentation, you will better understand data lake table formats and how they can be used to improve business analytics. Key takeaways: Data lake table formats are a critical component of modern data analytics. They offer a number of benefits for business analytics, including scalability, performance, durability, and auditability. There are a variety of data lake table formats available, including Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, and Delta Lake. Andrew Madson MSc, MBA Madson Join us for this complimentary session on Saturday, June 28th, 2025, at UC SAN DIEGO EXTENDED STUDIES . Further info Information is available at: https://lnkd.in/gXPuXWiR Come join the fun, #sql #Azure #databricks #apache #fabric #datalake #aws

Generative AI solutions continue to rapidly gain traction worldwide, capturing the imagination of users and customers across various industries. It has now become paramount for businesses to integrate Generative AI capabilities into their customer-facing services and applications. The challenge they often face is the need to leverage massive amounts of relational data hosted on on-premises SQL Server databases to contextualize these new Generative AI solutions. This session showcases how Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server and Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse can work together to address this challenge. By leveraging the native integration points between these managed services, you can develop integrated solutions that use Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to contextualize responses generated by generic foundation models and add more relevant, accurate, Generative AI capabilities to existing services and applications. Camilo Leon Leon Join us for this complimentary session on Saturday, June 28th, 2025, at UC SAN DIEGO EXTENDED STUDIES . Further info Information is available at: https://lnkd.in/gXPuXWiR Come join the fun, #sql #Azure #databricks #apache #fabric #datalake #aws

PRE-CON How does your life as a Power BI professional change with Microsoft Fabric? Register here: https://lnkd.in/ggTPeNc2 Fabric brings a ton of new possibilities to Power BI’s original workflow process to collect data and create a report. In this workshop, you will learn how to increase scalability, modularize your semantic model, and benefit from the new features in MS Fabric from a Power BI perspective. Workshop agenda: Power BI life-cycle review, Keeping the same routine in Fabric, New tools replacing Power Query (Transform button), Hands-on DataFlow Gen2 Hands-on Lakehouse Warehouse The new semantic mode lHands-on semantic model with direct The report creation experience Hands-on with report creation in the browser with CoPilot Hands-on with report creation with Power BI DesktopLunch is included and will be provided by SubwayParking is FREE.Speaker Info:Cloud architect and engineer focused on the data platform. Speaker, trainer, coder.With over 35 years in the computing arena, Armando has been focused on data platform solutions around Microsoft Azure and has helped many companies migrate their systems to the cloud. Armando Lacerda Has a passion for teaching and community engagement and has been certified as a Microsoft Trainer for over 25 years. He has been involved in presenting and helping other professionals better use and take advantage of Microsoft's data solutions. Achieving his first Microsoft certification in 1996 as a Visual Basic 4.0 developer, he was introduced to SQL Server 6.5 and 7.0 in 1998 and decided to focus his career on Microsoft's data platform. He has been certified in every release of the SQL product ecosystem for the past 20 years. https://lnkd.in/ggTPeNc2 #sql #data #fabric #databricks #sqlsaturday #azure #google #aws