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Wed, May 21, 2025, 6:30 PM EDTIN-PERSON: Quality AI Requires Quality Data ~ Ed Pollack
Microsoft, Burlington, MA
As AI adoption increases rapidly and organizations clamor to take advantage of OpenAI, Copilot, and other powerful tools, many mistakes and oversights are made. These mistakes manifest themselves in security breaches, invalid results, and even offensive content. The immediate results are lost time, money, and embarrassment. What do these problems have in common? Bad data!

Quality AI solutions require clean, documented, and validated data. This session dives into data quality with a strong focus on how data is maintained as it moves from transactional to analytic workloads.

Some topics include:
• How transactional data be maintained effectively without compromising performance.
• The importance of documentation in ensuring data is used correctly.
• How to validate data as it is moved, transformed, and crunched.
• Security implications of handing off data to AI applications.
• Ensuring that a source-of-truth exists for each data source.

This is a fast-paced session that promises both helpful best practices and also some fun along the way.
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Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 6:30 PM EDTAutomate Your Daily Database Checks with PowerShell ~ Jordan Sassi
Microsoft, Burlington, MA
You spend at least an hour or two every day checking to make sure that your SQL Server databases are compliant with your organization’s best practices. Even if your day starts in chaos trying to resolve other urgent issues, you still need to perform these daily checks. Wouldn’t it be great if you can outsource these checks to someone (or something) who will be more than willing to do these day in and day out?

In this session, learn how you can leverage PowerShell to automate your daily checks to make sure that your SQL Server databases are compliant with your organization’s best practices. You will learn how to create your own automated checks and even display the results in a Power BI dashboard. This allows you to have more time to do things that only you can do.
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Fri, Sep 26, 2025, 8:00 AM EDTIN-PERSON FULL-Day: Brent Ozar - Faster, Cheaper Cloud Databases
Microsoft, Burlington, MA
Please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sql-saturday-boston-2025-tickets-1331064302159

### Full-Day Workshop by Brent Ozar

### Faster, Cheaper Cloud Databases

You're managing databases that live in AWS, Azure, and Google, and you're getting a lot of questions about slow performance and crazy costs. Your users want everything faster and cheaper, and you're not finding good answers.

Join me, Brent Ozar, for a day of real-time demos, honest war stories, and practical fixes. I'll tackle an Azure SQL DB Managed Instance in the morning, and then an Amazon RDS SQL Server in the afternoon. I'll show how I use the First Responder Kit to assess the bottleneck, mitigate as much as I can with index and query tuning, and then write up a business case for management for better future budgeting.

Throughout the day, I'll include real-life stories from my cloud clients, with names changed to protect the innocent. I'll explain what worked, what didn't, and what went up in expensive flames.

You'll learn:

* How Brent uses the First Responder Kit to assess a cloud SQL Server's wait types
* Why each cloud vendor's VM quirks make performance tuning tricky, and how to adapt
* How to fix blocking, logging, and CPU issues when the hardware isn't yours
* How to write a persuasive performance report for management to fairly lay out where the problem is, and what steps to take next

By the end of the day, you'll be armed with real-world techniques for keeping your cloud databases faster, cheaper, and more future-proof.
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Sat, Sep 27, 2025, 8:00 AM EDTSQL Saturday Boston 2025
Microsoft, Burlington, MA
For the details and to register: https://sqlsaturday.com/boston

We’re excited to invite you to SQL Saturday Boston 2025 - a free, full-day event dedicated to data professionals, developers, DBAs, and anyone passionate about the Microsoft Data Platform.
Event Date: Saturday, September 27, 2025
Location: Microsoft Technology Center, 5 Wayside Rd, Burlington, MA 01803
Pre-Con with Brent Ozar – Friday, September 26!
Faster, Cheaper Cloud Databases
Register now for the FREE SQL Saturday Boston event and/or Brent Ozar’s precon: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sql-saturday-boston-2025-tickets-1331064302159

Expect a day packed with:

Deep-dive sessions on SQL Server, Azure, Power BI, and more

Hands-on learning from industry experts

Networking with peers, speakers, and recruiters

Giveaways, lunch, and a whole lot of community fun!

Don’t miss your chance to learn, share, and grow with one of the best data communities around. Bring a friend, tell your team, and come make SQL Saturday Boston unforgettable!
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