On the week of April 8th, in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, I\u2019ll be delivering a few sessions at the SQLIntersection conference<\/a> along with some pretty incredible company, including:<\/p>\n One thing that I love about the lineup is its unashamed coverage of Database Engine-centric topics (box product and Windows Azure SQL Database). There will be coverage of AlwaysOn Availability Groups, SQL Server I\/O patterns, columnstore indexes, database design, performance monitoring & tuning, SQL Server databases on SMB file shares, database encryption, Filestream and Filetable, table partitioning, query execution plans, indexing, virtualization, parallelism, PBM and CMS, statistics, Hekaton, parameter sniffing, and T-SQL practices. And with that block of database engine topics, there is still a little Hadoop thrown in for good measure (compliments Jeremiah Peschka).<\/p>\n What is also cool about this conference is the inclusion of track \u201chosts\u201d. Aaron Bertrand, Brent Ozar and Kimberly L. Tripp will help guide the attendees through the topics and sessions and help build on a cohesive and interactive experience. <\/p>\n This will be a great experience and I hope to see you there!<\/p>\n\n