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Conor Cunningham

Conor Cunningham is a Principal Software Architect at Microsoft on the SQL Server Query Processor Team. He's worked on database technologies for Microsoft for over 10 years and is holds numerous patents related to Query Optimization and Query Processing. Conor is the author of a number of peer-reviewed articles on query optimization techniques. Recently, he authored a chapter for the book "Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals" on how the Query Optimizer works. He publishes a blog called "Conor vs. SQL" (http://blogs.msdn.com/conor_cunningham_msft/default.aspx) where he answers questions about databases.

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Inside the SQL Server Query Optimizer Slide deck available

Understand the Query Optimiser from the man who knows!

Update Queries-Deep Dive Video available

Ever wanted to know exactly what is happening underneath the covers in your queries. Let me show you.

Saturday Keynote: Inside SQL Server 2012’s ColumnStore Index Video available

This talk will describe how the new ColumnStore index technology in SQL Server 2012 makes queries go faster. Covering details of the storage and execution model, how this model interacts with modern CPUs to deliver significant performance benefits.

Distributed Query Deep Dive Slide deck available

This talk will cover how the distributed query feature in SQL Server works, end-to-end. Topics include the query model, metadata, query optimization, execution, distributed transactions, and scale-out scenarios via Distributed Partitioned Views(DPV)

DW Design With The Product Team Slide deck available

This talk will explain the patterns that we recommend to customers when designing data warehouses. This talk will help people learning about DW for the first time and also give insight for those who wish to learn more.