It’s been a hot minute since we (the organizing team) announced Data Saturday Chicago, and I can’t believe it’s a month away! If you haven’t signed up yet, the team would lo…

Data Saturday Chicago is a community event for anyone interested in the Microsoft Data Platform. This event is for the data community, by the communit...

Data community events in Chicago have returned!

On behalf of the team that brought you SQL Saturday Chicago, I am ecstatic to announce that we are returning as Data Saturday Chicago on March 14, 2026 at Harper College. Sign up to receive E-mail …

SQL Server 2025 Public Preview is not even a week old, but I’m impressed with another new capability that was released – a new backup compression algorithm: ZSTD. This one came as a sur…

With the announcement of SQL Server 2025 Public Preview, hopefully you are interested in test driving Vector Search. Microsoft has already posted demo code, but it’s only for OpenAI on Azure.…

Happy December! It’s strange how fast the end of the year flies by. It’s been a pretty busy month for us here. A quick recap of the last month: We had two meetups this month. The first was Erin Dempst...

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