The Recording
The Panelists
- Kevin Feasel
- Mala Mahadevan
- Mike Chrestensen
Notes: Questions and Topics
SQL Saturday Raleigh
Our big news is around SQL Saturday Raleigh, which we’ve officially launched. It will take place on May 17th at Duke Health in Durham. You can register at the SQL Saturday website. There are free tickets that do not include lunch, and paid tickets that include lunch. We will not have lunch available for sale on the day of the event.
We’re also hosting Brent Ozar for a pre-con the day before. You can sign up for this on Brent’s website.
Azure ML SDK/CLI v1 Deprecation Notice
Microsoft has announced that the Azure ML Python SDK v1 will officially go away on June 30th of 2026, and the az cli AML extension v1 will go away in September of 2025. We talk a little bit about what that means, and the upgrade guide that Microsoft has provided. I also teased a video that will drop next week, on April 29th.
Iceberg vs Delta Lake
Our other major topic was a comparison of Apache Iceberg vs Delta Lake. This was a topic Mike wanted to know more about, and I happened to read (and curate) a great comparison of the two products from Maria Zakourdaev, whose name I clearly cannot pronounce. Maria does a great job of laying out the pros and cons of each platform and I highly recommend checking out that article if you’re interested in Iceberg.