Welcome to PASS Summit 2024

This is the premier data conference of the year.

Let’s start with some stats:

• 1750+ attendees
• 48 countries
• 5 tracks
• 200+ sessions from 200 speakers

Shoutout to the amazing sponsors who make these events possible!

The conference motto for the community has, for many years, been to connect, share, and learn. This year is no exception.

The amazing Steve Jones started the event with some key tips and insights for the attendees to maximise their time at the conference. This conference covers not only technical topics but also non-technical topics such as professional development.

Redgate also has an environmental campaign for ocean creatures. If you find one of these little creatures, return it to the community zone and Redgate will donate to charity.

Shireesh Thota (Corporate Vice President, Azure Databases) shared the data compass

Azure Data Community with over 100 user groups globally, so if you couldn’t attend PASS Data Community Summit, try catching your local user group session Azure Data Community | Microsoft

Announcement Time

• SSMS 21 and Copilot in SSMS
  • GIT integration
  • Vertical Tabs (left or right) or keep top and have multiple rows
  • Copilot chat experience
  • Markdown (with preview)
  • Dark mode
• Azure SQL Database Hyperscale enhancements
  • Storage up to 128 TB
• General Availability
  • BI-directional Disaster Recovery with link feature in Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Azure SQL Database Hyperscale enhancements, storage up to 128 TB
  • Serverless auto-pause delay to 15 minutes
  • Flat and quantized flat vector indexes in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL
  • Azure Cosmos DB for Mongo DB enhancements
  • Azure Cosmos DB
    • Azure AI extensions
• Previews
  • Next gen general purpose on Azure SQL Managed Instance
  • Migration Assessment from SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc
    • 32TB
    • 500 DB’s
    • Customize I/O Performance
  • Native JSON type and aggregates in Azure SQL Database
  • DiskANN indexing in Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Azure Cosmos SB In-database embedding generation

And so much more….

note: sorry about the formatting, publishing in draft, will edit later