2026-09-04 –, Workshop Room - CZ 107
For years, the database world felt predictable. We spoke in stored procedures, closely guarded our indexes, agonized over transaction logs, and meticulously budgeted our compute resources around physical or provisioned servers. If you are coming from the Microsoft SQL Server ecosystem, you know the drill: scaling up means bigger hardware, and scaling out means a headache.
This workshop is a practical, developer-to-developer introduction to Snowflake, built entirely from a MSSQL perspective. We won't waste your time with basic SELECT syntax (SQL is SQL, after all). Instead, we are going to explore how your hard-earned database knowledge translates into a modern, cloud-native architecture.
The Architecture Shock: How Snowflake separates storage from compute, and why you will never have to rebuild an index or manage a transaction log again.
Decoupling the Mental Model: Translating MSSQL concepts (like database instances, schemas, and linked servers) into Snowflake's elastic, multi-cluster environment. Understanding standard, hybrind and dynamic tables in snowflake.
The Hidden Superpowers: A hands-on look at features, including Zero-Copy Cloning and Time Travel
Markus Perz is a Senior Full Stack Developer at Guid.New GmbH with focus on modern .NET and Angular applications. He combines backend and frontend perspectives with a clear focus on maintainable, scalable software solutions. Alongside his project experience, he also brings experience in knowledge sharing and mentoring, particularly in the Angular ecosystem. Recently, his work with Snowflake has increasingly focused on AI models and embeddings. In “From MSSQL to Snowflake”, he adds a full-stack perspective on how cloud-native data platforms affect application architecture and development.
Manfred Wippel is a Backend Developer at Guid.New GmbH, specializing in database-centric software development within the Microsoft ecosystem. He has extensive experience with .NET, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and Snowflake, as well as database-first approaches and maintainable backend architectures. He has also shared his expertise in meetup talks on TypeScript at the JavaScript User Group and on AI at the Usability User Group. In “From MSSQL to Snowflake”, he brings a practical developer perspective to modern cloud-native data platforms.