Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

This full-day workshop will get you up to speed on powerful new features in SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, and SQL Server 2012. more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Whether you're new to ORM, or you've dabbled in other ORM technologies, Lenni will show how quickly you can start working with EF6 and boost your productivity when building data-centric .NET applications. more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

In this informative and demo-packed session, Lenni will guide you through the T-SQL enhancements in the very latest release of SQL Server. more

Scott Klein, Data Platform Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

Join this session for a deep dive into the features of SQL Server 2014 and learn how to implement the new capabilities. more

Scott Klein, Data Platform Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

In this demo-filled session we will discuss Hekaton from a DBA perspective. more

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

In this session, you will review the different NoSQLs, why they're different from the RDBMS, and more importantly, what they're good for and why you should spend time learning how to use and develop to them. more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Don't miss this demo-centric session on the new generation of database tools for application developers! more

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

In this session, you will look at the analytics capabilities in the core Excel product and the combination of Excel 2013 Data Model, Power Pivot, Power View, Power Query and Power Map and learn how to use them together. more

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

In this session, Microsoft BI expert and ZDNet Big Data blogger Andrew Brust will explain what Big Data is all about and how Hadoop works more