Capital Region Data Professionals

SQL Community Engineering Connection Series

Speakers

• Bob Ward
• Anna Hoffman

Description:
Hear the latest updates directly from the SQL engineering team with an expert‑led session spotlighting new capabilities and practical guidance for Azure Data Community members.

During this session we will cover:
Post SQLCon Data Platform Updates

This series is all about connection bringing Microsoft's product experts and the SQL community together to share knowledge, answer questions, and help you stay up to date on the latest in the SQL and data ecosystem.

SQL Community Engineering Connection Series

Speakers

• Mehrsa Golestaneh
• Emily Lisa

Description:
Hear the latest updates directly from the Fabric team with an expert‑led session spotlighting new capabilities and practical guidance for Azure Data Community members.

During this session we will cover:
Building Agentic Applications with Microsoft Fabric; Power BI Agentic Development

This series is all about connection bringing Microsoft's product experts and the Fabric community together to share knowledge, answer questions, and help you stay up to date on the latest in the Azure Fabric and data ecosystem.

Greetings, data enthusiasts!

Our October meeting is scheduled for Monday, October 19th, at 5:30 pm! We will meet in person at: Troy Web Consulting, 135 Mohawk St, Cohoes, NY 12047.

Please RSVP if you are attending, so we can purchase an appropriate amount of food for everyone. Food is TBA and will be announced closer to the meeting date. For this meeting, we are welcoming Surya Reddy and Sowjanya Deva, who hail from the land of New Jersey, to introduce us to analytic query architecture & optimization! Thank you for taking the time and energy to travel to Albany and share your experience with us!

Our meeting schedule is as follows:

5:30 PM: Food, soft drinks, and networking
6:15 PM: Chapter news and announcements
6:30 PM: Presentation

We usually wrap up between 7:30 PM and 8:00 PM. Surya and Sowjanya will be presenting, "Practical SQL for Analytics: Writing Queries That Scale"

Session Details:
Analytics queries that work on small datasets often fail at scale. This session teaches practical SQL patterns for analytical workloads, including window functions, aggregations, time-series analysis, and query structuring techniques that scale on large tables. Ideal for analysts, data engineers, and developers who want faster, more reliable analytics queries.

Greetings, data enthusiasts!

Our November meeting is scheduled for Monday, November 16th, at 5:30 pm! We will meet in person at: Troy Web Consulting, 135 Mohawk St, Cohoes, NY 12047.

Please RSVP if you are attending, so we can purchase an appropriate amount of food for everyone. Food is TBA and will be announced closer to the meeting date. For this meeting, we are welcoming our own Mawais Farooqui, who will be talking about the work involved in turning data into business insights. Thank you for taking the time to share your experiences with us!

Our meeting schedule is as follows:

5:30 PM: Food, soft drinks, and networking
6:15 PM: Chapter news and announcements
6:30 PM: Presentation

We usually wrap up between 7:30 PM and 8:00 PM. Mawais will be presenting, "How Business Data Becomes Management Decisions"

Session Details:
Using a fictional beverage company, this presentation will follow data from POS systems, online transactions, inventory systems, APIs, and CSV files. It will show how PostgreSQL, SQL, and Python are used to store, clean, and transform the data.

The prepared data will then feed into a Power BI dashboard that helps management analyze sales, monitor inventory, forecast demand, and make better business decisions.