PASSMN Meeting 2026-04-21 (Virtual Meeting Only)
Details
Important Note: This meeting is online only and will not be held at the Microsoft Technology Center
Agenda:
š
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 š
š 3:30-4:00 Kickoff / Announcements
š 4:00-5:00 DuckDB 101 - zero to 500 million in less than a second
(Brian Dill)
š 5:00-5:10 Break
š 5:10-6:10 Virtual networking and discussion.
š 6:10-6:15 Closing
Sessions
š 4:00 pm
āļø DuckDB 101 - zero to 500 million in less than a second
š Brian Dill
Learn how to setup and use THE best tool there is for exploratory data analysis. I will present demos using the built-in UI notebooks. Learn about when and why to use DuckDB by learning what is VERY good at, and what it doesn't do so well. Some basic knowledge of SQL is expected.
š 5:10 pm
āļø Virtual Networking and Discussion
Speakers
š Speaker 1
ā”ļø DuckDB 101 - zero to 500 million in less than a second
Brian's SQL experience goes back to version 6.5 in the late 1990s. He is currently a DBA for RANDA Solutions, Inc in Franklin, TN. He has recently dusted off his college statistics textbooks and taken a foray into data science with R. He is a photographer, a recent drone enthusiast, and in compliance with Nashville law, he can play the guitar.
