Name: A Night of an International Speaker and SQL Database in Fabric
Start: 2025-06-09T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-06-09T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Awesome Inc

Welcome to our June 2025 meeting! We'll be featuring the session "SQL Database in Fabric: Seamless Transactions, Instant Analytics" and Ben Weissman will be coming all the way from Germany to be our speaker. Ben is a great presenter (and great person) so don't miss this chance to learn from one of the best and make an international connection as well.

As always, we'll have food and drinks courtesy of TEKsystems Lexington and use of a great facility courtesy of Awesome Inc.

Matt Gordon

Kristyna Hughes

Lexington Data Technology Group

Azure Data Tech Groups

Technology

Database Professionals

Software Development

Business Intelligence

Cloud Computing

Big Data

Database Development

Machine Learning

Data Analytics

Data Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Data Mining

Database Administrator

Data Science

Ben's title: SQL Database in Fabric: Seamless Transactions, Instant Analytics

Ben's abstract: Discover the evolution of SQL Databases into Microsoft Fabric’s cloud-native ecosystem. Explore how SQL Database in Fabric, a SaaS operational database, simplifies transactional data management while enabling real-time replication into OneLake for unified analytics.
This session will cover the WHAT, WHEN, and HOW of SQL Database in Fabric, highlighting its automatic scaling, seamless integration, and advantages over options like Datamarts and mirrored Azure SQL DB. Through live demos, see firsthand how easily databases can be created, schemas managed, and operational data integrated.
By the end, gain a deeper understanding of how SQL Database in Fabric transforms operational data management in the cloud era. Learn how it integrates seamlessly with OneLake and other Fabric workloads, where it fits among operational data storage options, and how to implement it effectively with real-world use cases.

Ben's bio: Ben has been working with SQL Server since SQL Server 6.5, mainly in the BI/Datawarehousing field.

He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, a co-author of "SQL on Kubernetes", "Azure Arc-enabled Data Services Revealed", "SQL Server Big Data Clusters" and "The Biml Book" as well as a regular speaker at national and international events. He has also published multiple Video courses at Pluralsight and other platforms.

Ben is also a co-organizer of DataGrillen, New Stars of Data and dativerse as well as a volunteer and mentor for many other Data Platform events.

A Night of an International Speaker and SQL Database in Fabric

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