This past November, Eugene and I attended the 2023 PASS Data Community Summit (aka PASS Summit) in Seattle, while Kevin headed down to Orlando for the Microsoft Live! 360 event in Orlando. Having no remote option this year was fine for us, as it was great to reconnect with our friends and colleagues in the data community, as well as get updates live and in-person from Microsoft on all the new features rolling out. The focus of both conferences was eerily similar and in this episode we discuss our experiences along with a picture of what 2024 will look like. Azure services continue to be a focus and Fabric is included in that space; however, I was surprised at the number of Postgres sessions. In fact, PostGres got a whopping 30 minutes out the 90-minute Microsoft keynote.
AI continued to be peppered in the conversation and Kevin gives us his take on where some of this is going. As a side reference, if you are interested in learning more about large language models, check out this video by Andrej Karpathy.
The show notes for today's episode can be found at Episode 271: PASS Summit 2023 Wrap-Up. Have fun on the SQL Trail!
Episode 155: Data Science
Episode 154: Test Driven Development
Episode 153: SQL Trail 2018 Retrospective
Episode 152: Do you use Analysis Services?
Episode 151: Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
Episode 150: The SQL Data Partners Team
Episode 149: Managing lots of databases
Episode 148: High Performance SSRS
Episode 147: Always Encrypted
Episode 146: SQL Trail Speakers
Episode 145: Is SSIS still relevant? Part 2
Episode 144: Is SSIS still relevant? Part 1
Episode 143: Transitioning from DBA to Data Warehouse Architect
Episode 142: Do You Have a HEAP of Hurting?
Episode 141: Wait, Wait, What?
Episode 140: Why data types matter
Episode 139: Getting Started with SQL Server in Azure
Episode 138: Meeting of the Minds
Episode 137: You want to work with Analytics?
Episode 136: Devops with Visual Studio
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