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 115: The Companero Conference Retrospective
Episode 114: How do you start consulting?
Episode 113: Standing on the shoulders of giants
Episode 112: Keeping up with patching
Episode 111: How do you prepare for conferences?
Episode 110 How do I build trust with my team
Episode 109: To certify or not to certify?
Episode 108: The Future of the Relational Database
Episode 107 BI for the Little Guy
Episode 106 Temporal Tables
Episode 105 When is enough, enough?
Episode 104: Keeping up with technology
Episode 103 Plan Reuse
Episode 102 Monitoring Availability Groups
Episode 101 Inspecting a new Database
Episode 100 Role Reversal
Episode 99 Imposter Syndrome
Episode 98: The first change you make
Episode 97 Transactional Replication
Epsiode 96 Building Community Tools
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