Our next event is on the 7th May with Shubhangi Goyal presenting Evaluation of LLMs using prompt engineering and @ianpike.bsky.social presenting FabCon Atlanta Databases Updates. Please see www.meetup.com/mcrdataplatf... for more details and registration.

Reminder - happening this week.

Our next event is on the 9th April and is an online only event. We have Will Martin presenting Dredging the Data Lake: Empowering Modern Data Analytics with AI. and Andrew Pruski presenting New features in SQL Server 2025. Please see www.meetup.com/mcrdataplatf... for more details and registration.

Our next event is on the 9th April and is an online only event. We have Will Martin presenting Dredging the Data Lake: Empowering Modern Data Analytics with AI. and Andrew Pruski presenting New features in SQL Server 2025. Please see www.meetup.com/mcrdataplatf... for more details and registration.

Reminder - our next event is on 5th Feb with @sqlcestrian.bsky.social presenting A Guide to Building a Powerful Yet Cost-Effective Azure Data Platform and @ianpike.bsky.social presenting What are the 10 things you need to know before you start a Fabric project. www.meetup.com/mcrdataplatf...

Our next in-person event is on 5th Feb 2026 with @sqlcestrian.bsky.social presenting "Guide to Building a Powerful Yet Cost-Effective Azure Data Platform" and Paul Cridland presenting "An overview of Azure Service Bus". Please see www.meetup.com/mcrdataplatf... for more details and registration

Our next event is on 4th December with Bharav Patel presenting "From Blind Spots to Total Vision: Observability at Petabyte Scale." And @oliviervs.bsky.social - Database Deployment Automation using Database Projects & Azure DevOps. For more details please see www.meetup.com/mcrdataplatf...

Reminder, our next event is on Thursday 16th Oct

Our next event is on 16th October with Juliana Smith presenting Uncovering the Secrets of Dashboard Design and @ianpike.bsky.social presenting updates from the Fabric Conference Community Conference 2025 in Vienna. Please see www.meetup.com/mcrdataplatf... for more details and registration

One of our co-organisers was Martin Croft. We sadly lost Martin on 23rd August after a long battle with cancer. Please read our tribute here on Linkedin tiny.cc/d43s001 or here on Facebook tiny.cc/053s001

Reminder our next event is this week

Our next event is on 4th September with Steve Powell (@azuredatafool.bsky.social) presenting The new JSON data type and indexing features in SQL2025 and Srinivaas Jaganaathan presenting Bridging SQL Server and Power Platform. For more details and registration visit www.meetup.com/mcrdataplatf...

Are you interesting in presenting to the Manchester Data platform user group? We are looking for speakers for our event on the 4th September 2025. This is in-person only in Manchester city centre. Please submit via sessionize.com/manchester-d...

Reminder - our next event is this Thursday(5th June), in-person, Manchester city centre.

Our next event is on 5th June with Shubhangi Goyal presenting Crafting LLM Applications: Design, Build, and Evaluate Large Language Models and @atulthakor.bsky.social presenting Going from 0 to 50k users in 5 months, An AI start up with zero marketing. Please see www.meetup.com/mcrdataplatf....

We're planning on running another event on 5th June in Manchester city centre, if you are interesting in presenting(get some practise in for SQLBits), please submit your session at sessionize.com/manchester-d...

Reminder, our next event is on 1st May 2025

Our next event is available for registration, please see www.meetup.com/mcrdataplatf... for more details. We have Ian Pike & David Mitchell presenting on Fabric. This is in-person only event in Manchester city centre.

We've just published our call for speakers for the group. We are currently looking to host an event on 1st May 2025, this is going to be all in-person. If you'd like to submit please visit sessionize.com/manchester-d... Hopefully we'll add more dates soon

Reminder, our next event is tomorrow

Our next event is on 28th November, online only, with Torsten Strauss presenting "Rapid SQL DB Development with SSDT Templates and Code Snippets". Please see www.meetup.com/mcrdataplatf... for more details and registration