How Can Fabric Impact Your Business | SQL Managed Instances (OnLine)

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18:15- 18:30 - Networking
18:30: How Can Microsoft Fabric Have an Impact on Your Business? - Paul Andrew
19:30: Break
19:45: All about SQL Managed Instances - Richard Munn
20:45: Prize draw

Session details:
1. How Can Microsoft Fabric Have an Impact on Your Business?
All this talk about Data-Ware-Lake-Delta-Beach-House-Lakes (or some combination of that) and Data, Yarn, Fabric integration, everything has got a bit… Meshy! Yes, my friends. The beat of the technology drum is certainly relentless. And with no limits cloud scale and huge innovations from the biggest brains. Two years, it seems, has become the benchmark for tools to live and die by. Reach three years and you almost have a mature product. That said, Microsoft Fabric, the latest offering from global software giant is no exception. But what does this mean for the real world. For the data analysts, engineers and scientists that need to continue answering everyday problems to inform business decisions. In this session we will firmly ignore the hype and focus on the reality. With the pragmatic view of an experienced architect. The problem of gaining insights from our data hasn’t changed. So, what does this mean if implemented using Microsoft Fabric. What, why and how is the tooling going to change our daily deliverables in the short term, medium and long term. Join me for these answers and more as we explore the impact of Microsoft Fabric-Server, erm, Power. Resource. Thing!

2. All about SQL Managed Instances
Azure SQL Managed Instances have been available for a few years now, and the features they provide just keep getting bigger and better.
In this session, we'll take a look at some of the benefits (and drawbacks) of using them, some obvious use-cases, and one that's *really* clever and might save your on-prem Availability Groups in the event of failure.
Well, maybe not *all*, but there's definitely some key take-aways.

Bio:
Paul Andrew
Paul (AKA @mrpaulandrew) is the Founder & CTO of Cloud Formations, a specialist data consultancy based in the UK. With nearly 20 years’ experience designing and delivering Microsoft data architectures, Paul leads a passionate team of engineers, supporting businesses small and large with scalable cloud platforms. Business value delivered through data insights. Over the years, Paul has covered the breadth and depth of design patterns and industry leading concepts, including Lambda, Kappa, Delta Lake, Data Mesh and Data Fabric.

Richard Munn
Working with MS SQL Server since version 6.5, with the last 20 years in Financial Services. Passionate about doing the right thing the right way. Proud semi-Northerner. Currently spreading my time between work, parenting, Marmite, and the occasional SQL community event.