Capital Area SQL Server User Group

SQL Community Engineering Connection Series: Episode 7
Modernizing SQL: End to end Migration journey to Azure

Speakers:
Anitha Adusumilli / Sudhir Raparla - Modernizing SQL : End to End Migration journey in Azure Arc
Tejas Shah/Amit Khandelwal - New enhancements in SQL Linux
Description:
Hear the latest updates directly from the SQL engineering team, with two expert‑led sessions spotlighting new capabilities and practical guidance for Azure Data Community members.
During this session we will cover:

• Modernizing SQL : End to End Migration journey in Azure Arc
• New enhancements in SQL Linux

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: Episode 8
Change event streaming in SQL; Delivering greatly improved performance, scalability and resource tuning with Next-gen SQL MI

Speakers:
Nikola Zagorac & Uros Milanovic

Description:
Hear the latest updates directly from the SQL engineering team, with two expert‑led sessions spotlighting new capabilities and practical guidance for Azure Data Community members.
During this session we will cover:

• Change event streaming in SQL; Delivering greatly improved performance, scalability and resource tuning with Next-gen SQL MI

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.

Greetings, data enthusiasts!

Our March meeting is scheduled for Monday, March 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 Rajaniesh Kaushikk, who is joining us from New York City! Thank you for taking the time and energy to join us and share your knowledge!

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. Rajaniesh will be presenting on a topic that tied closely with data integrity & quality: "Autonomous Data Agents: Driving Intelligent Workflows with Azure AI and Semantic Kernel".

Session Details:
The future of enterprise intelligence is autonomous. In this session, discover how data agents powered by Azure AI and Semantic Kernel are redefining the way organizations design and execute smart workflows.

You’ll learn how autonomous agents can plan, reason, and collaborate to handle complex tasks such as data exploration, anomaly detection, pipeline automation, and real‑time decision support. We’ll explore how Semantic Kernel provides memory and orchestration capabilities, while Azure AI powers the intelligence that drives meaningful outcomes.

Through a live demo, watch autonomous data agents transform raw data into actionable insights—delivering efficiency, scalability, and governance without manual intervention.

By the end of this session, you’ll understand how to design and deploy agentic AI workflows that elevate your organization’s ability to move from data to decisions at speed and scale.

Greetings, data enthusiasts!

Our April meeting is scheduled for Monday, April 20th, 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. This is a ROUNDTABLE meeting, therefore the schedule, topics, and presentations will be shorter, more casual and ad-hoc. Food is TBA until we get closer to the event date.

Our meeting schedule is as follows:

5:30 PM: Food, soft drinks, and networking
6:10 PM: Chapter news and announcements
6:15 PM: Roundtable
We will wrap up between 7:30 PM and 8:00 PM.

This month's meeting is a CASSUG Roundtable! Bring your own topics and we will discuss and try to solve them! Some ideas on what makes a successful roundtable:

Questions
Discussions
Conundrums
Challenges
Personal victories
Code sharing
Job search status/requests

While there will not be a formal speaker for this meeting, having an agenda makes things move more smoothly. If you have anything to present, discuss, or ask and know in advance, please message me or reply to this event and I will create a rough agenda of what we will tackle! As a bonus, this allows us to prepare a bit more and look up some resources ahead of time.

Details on topics, proposals, and requests will be added closer to the meeting date. Feel free to bring your own content or ideas to share, as this is a casual/relaxed meeting.