Presentations The Road To Autonomous Databases Date: 2017-12-12 Organiser: UK Azure User Group Place: London, UK www Performance Intelligence in Sql Server and Azure Sql Database Date: 2017-12-08 Organiser: Data Community PL Place: Microsoft, Warsaw, Poland www Auto-Tuning and the PREDICT function Date: 2017-11-01 Organiser: Reading SQL Server and Azure Data Services User Group Place: Reading, UK www Training Sessions Azure SQL Datawarehouse Architecture Intrudcution To Azure For DBAs Monitoring and troubleshooting Sql Server AlwaysOn Avibility Groups New features in Sql Server 2016

A lot of important announcements were made at Microsoft Ignite 2017. I asked my peers from Sql Server Community (sqlcommunity.slack.com) what they are most excited about and results are below.