PolyBase is one of the most exciting, innovative features in PDW; enabling transparent data integration with Hadoop's distributed file system (HDFS) and Windows Azure Storage Blobs (WASB). See it in action.
A fun session showing some amazing things you can do with Power BI
This session is a primer on column store indexes and SQL Server batch mode, it delves into the background behind the performance gains achieved by batch mode and includes demos on things that can be done to further enhance batch mode performance.
In this session we will look in detail into some of the features for the Power BI designer and take it for a spin and investigating some of the new capabilities it has to offer for different relationships and new DAX formulas.
This session introduces SQL Server 2012 and 2014 text mining capabilities.
Azure stream analytics is a new Azure service for analyzing streaming data.
Deploying your database changes to production can be nerve-wracking. We'll discuss methods that take the stress out of the process by ensuring that you practise your deployments using continuous integration before you ever get near production
Azure Machine Learning is a fully managed cloud service for predictive analytics.
In this 1hour session, we will run through;
ML Studio,using data, Creating and running Experiments, visualising results, R , publishing and using experiments.
Sometimes don't want our data in the cloud, but that doesn't mean we can't use the cloud at all.
A SSAS MDX Deep Dive session covering the implementation of a business requirement to identify rogue behaviour over time and within SCD organisation groups.