Name: Manchester December Meetup
Start: 2025-12-04T18:15:00Z
End: 2025-12-04T21:00:00Z
Location: XYZ Works

**Please Note the slightly later start time than usual - this is due to venue availability.**

Network, learn, ask a question, meet other folks - these are all things that happen at user group events. These events are a really great opportunity to socialise in an informal learning experience.

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In-Person only event. Not being recorded.

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18:15 – 18:30 **Intro and updates**
18:30 – 19:30 Bharav Patel - From Blind Spots to Total Vision: Observability at Petabyte Scale.
System downtime erodes customer trust and causes financial losses in today's digital landscape. This session demonstrates how to transform infrastructure monitoring using logs, metrics, and traces for comprehensive visibility. By implementing advanced strategies, machine learning for anomaly detection, and AI-assisted data interaction, businesses can proactively identify and mitigate issues, minimizing downtime and maintaining reliable digital ecosystems. We'll use OpenSearch to illustrate these platform-agnostic concepts.

19:30 – 19:45 **Break & Pizza**
19:45 – 20:45 Olivier Van Steenlandt - Database Deployment Automation using Database Projects & Azure DevOps
You have implemented Database Projects and Azure DevOps for database development successfully in your organization and you want to make your life easier by automating your database deployments? If the answer is yes, this session is for you!
At the beginning of this session, we will do a quick recap of Database Projects and Azure DevOps. Just to make sure that we are all on the same page.
During the session, we will set up an example build and deploy pipeline. Since there are a couple of ways to deploy changes from Azure DevOps to your target database, We will discuss a couple of scenarios and I will show you which method I'm using.
\- 1 Pipeline to rule them all
\- multi\-step deployment
During this session, we will also cover the deployment pipeline differences between SQL Server and AzureSQL.
At the end of this session, you should have all you need to start with database deployment automation.

Paul Egan

Ian Pike

Manchester Data Platform User Group

Azure Data Tech Groups

Technology

Advanced SQL Server

SQL Server

Microsoft

Data Analytics

Collaboration

Big Data

Microsoft Azure

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Bharav Patel is a Specialist Solution Architect, Analytics at Amazon Web Services. He primarily works on Amazon OpenSearch Service and helps customers with key concepts and design principles of running OpenSearch workloads on the cloud. Bharav likes to explore new places and try out different cuisines.

Olivier Van Steenlandt is a Business Intelligence Professional who spent most of his early career assisting retail companies to get more value of their data using the Microsoft BI Stack (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, Power BI).
As his first experience in the field (in Business Intelligence), Olivier worked as a Big Data Analyst using tools such as Hadoop and Spark.
In 2015 the focus changed to traditional data warehousing & reporting using SSIS, SSRS & MicroStrategy. A bit later, around June 2019, the opportunity arose to fill the position of BI Teamlead. In this function he was able to set up a hybrid BI Team (team members in Belgium and Belarus).
Early 2020, Olivier joined the dataMinds crew as a core member, assisting to organise several events.
Around April 2021, Olivier started a new position as BI Teamlead in another Retail Company to support business growth. Besides the challenge to help the BI Team grow and deliver projects on time, he started to use SSAS & Power BI.
In April 2025, Olivier stepped away from internal positions and became an independent consultant.
When Olivier is not working there is a high chance that you find him on a football field, studying (BI Related), playing music (Saxophone / Piano) or cooking. 

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