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"Start Small and Grow Big" with Power BI and Azure AS
In this talk you will learn how to use Power BI to prototype/develop a BI solution in days and then evolve it into a fully scalable Azure BI solution.
50 ways to show your data
„A picture is worth a thousand words“ - compelling visualizations beyond the usual bar, line or scatter plots, produced with the help of the ggplot2 package and friends.
60 Reporting Tips in 60 Minutes
This is a session for the all of you with short attention spans (like me!) In this session, we will rapid fire tip after tip to help you be a better report author. We'll use the popular Microsoft tools, SSRS and Power BI.
Administrating SSRS without boring web based clicks
Automate SSRS management using Microsoft's PowerShell module
Advanced-On-Prem SSRS 2017 For Non-Ad Users
There has always been a challenge of publishing an on-prem developed reports to external clients (non-AD users). Is this achievable with the latest SQL Server 2017 with RLS enabled?
An introduction to HDInsight
Are you still asking yourself, what is big data? What is HDInsight and how can I benefit from it? which type of HDInsight Cluster should I use? come to this session and find an answer
An Introduction to Machine Learning
Learn how to build an Azure Machine Learning model, how to use, integrate and consume the model within other applications, and learn the basic principles and statistics concepts available in the different ML algorithms.
An introduction to SQL Server for data scientists
A little bit of knowledge about how SQL Server works can go a long way towards making large data engineering queries run faster.
Analyzing real-time data using Azure Streaming Analytics.
Businesses today require real-time information to make better-informed decisions, this requires a new set of tools. In this session you will learn about Azure Stream analytics and how it can help address real-time data scenarios
Apache Cassandra for the SQLServer DBA
A tour of Cassandra, a popular NoSQL DBMS
Azure and SQL Server: Getting the best out of the cloud
SQL Server and Azure are built for each other. New hybrid scenarios between on-premise SQL Server and Azure mean they don't have to exclude each other but instead you can have the best of both worlds, reducing operational costs.
Azure Data Catalog Adoption Patterns and Best Practices
Get the most from Data Catalog with patterns and practices.
Azure SQL Data Warehouse Optimizing and Maintaining
In this talk we will discuss best practices around how to design and maintain an Azure SQL Data Warehouse for best throughput and query performance.
Boosting SSAS productivity with Tabular Editor
Tabular Editor is an open source offline editor experience for SSAS Tabular, which offers lots of features in a simple UI that can vastly improve your productivity when developing Tabular Models at compatibility level 1200+
Breathe Life Back into your MS SQL Server Systems And Cloud Apps With a Much Needed Parallelism Boost
Mike Prince, Senior Technical Consultant and Independent User of MaxParallel™ reveals how it worked for Ultima Business Solutions and details the levels of performance enhancements they now achieve.
Chatbots for Dummies
Learn how to build, debug and deploy a chatbot using the Azure Bot Service and the Microsoft Bot Framework.
Data Science For The DBA - Get Started Now
If you are a DBA and want to get started with Data Science, then this session is for you. This demo-packed session will show you an end-to-end Data Science project covering the core technologies in Microsoft Data + AI stack.
DAX Best Practices
Best bractices in DAX formulas from real world experience.
Dont cross the streams, a closer look at Stream Analytics
This session takes a closer look at Azure Stream Analytics, and how you can make it work in your Projects.
DWH and Microsoft BI in an Online Games Company
How does Big Data with Hadoop, Cloud Computing in Azure, Self Service BI and “classic” BI with SQL 2016 interact with each other to build a modern enterprise BI architecture at InnoGames? Watch my talk and you will know!
Efficiency Tips and Tricks for Multi-Platform Data Client DBAs
Real-world scenarios and stories of a DBA who has to deal with different database platforms and their constant battle with efficiency. This session will offer neat solutions, demos, and tools to make your job more pleasant.
Evaluating Models: Get Ready to ROC
Introducing the ROC curve and its use in Azure ML.
Extending Power BI With Your Own Custom Visual
Microsoft Power BI supports custom visuals from the Office Store (store.office.com). In this session I will demonstrate what is needed for starting building your own.
How to Architect Azure for Insights & Analytics
Selecting the right PaaS components in Azure
Hybrid Data Solutions-how to have you cake and eat it!
We live in a cloud first World, but many organisation still run largely on-premise. This session covers how these organisations can begin their journey and leverage Azure data services.
Improving SELECT * Query Performance
For anyone frustrated by column-hoarding users and developers
Inside the classic machine learning algorithms
Algorithms like Neural Nets, Deep Learning, SVM and KNN are dominating the Machine Learning world. You don’t need to know the maths behind them but you do need to know how they work in order to use them effectively. This talk will explain just that.
Introduction to Graph Processing with SQL Server 2017
Hierarchies and graphs are the bread and butter of most business applications. SQL Server 2017 comes now with a different approach: Graph Database. You will learn best practices, have fun and will leave with handy scripts.
Introduction to partitioning
Session will be aimed at Database Administrators\Developers who have not previously implemented partitioning within an OLTP database and is designed to give a overview into the concepts and implementation.
Introduction to Pester-TDD for PowerShell
Start from nothing and use Test Driven Development to write a PowerShell function that uses the Microsoft Cognitive Services API to analyse pictures. I will take you on a journey from nothing to a complete function
Kick Start! SQL Server 2016/2017 Performance Tips and Tricks
Every new release of SQL Server brings a whole load of new features that an administrator can add to their arsenal of efficiency. In this session we will discuss newly introduced SQL Server 2016 / 2017 features for performance.
Kicking & Screaming: Replacing Profiler with Extended Events
Extended Events was released with SQL Server 2008, and almost 10 years later, many data professionals are still clinging to Profiler. It's time to move forward, and in this session I'll show you how.
Managing Always On Availability Groups with Powershell
Combining Always ON Availability Groups and Powershell will make your life easier
Parallel Database Maintenance with 24/7 Systems and Huge DBs
Session deals with the database maintenance problems (like defragmentation) in situation of 24/7 system. As we walk through the basic maintenance we keep in mind that our database is big and it takes a lot of time to do the proper maintenance.
Performance Monitoring Using Extended Events, DMVs & Query S
Extended Events, Dynamic Management Views, and Query Store are powerful and lightweight tools. In this session you will learn techniques for combining the data from these tools, to gain great insight, when analyzing performance problems.
Pitch Perfect-Presenting Ideas That Win Executive Support
You want to make your IT organization better, new software or hardware, new team process, or other significant change? Is you organization’s management are prone to saying ‘No’ to things like this in the past. How do you move forward successfully?
Power BI deployment strategy for publishing and maintenance
It takes minutes to create and share Power BI reports and users who has relevant Power BI access can do many things in the PBI service. In this session, Prathy will show how having a deployment strategy helps maintaining Power BI service.
Preparing your business for data science
So you're thinking about doing implementing data science project in your business? If you fail to plan, you plan to fail, so come to this session to help you construct your data science plan to help you succeed!
Query Execution: Expectation-Reality
Sometimes this happens. What you expect not always what you received. In this session, we will look at a bunch of such situations.
Revenge: The SQL!
Are you a frustrated DBA? Ready to snap? Before you do, come see Revenge: The SQL! and learn a kinder, gentler form of vengeance.
Row Level Security-A real world example
Row Level Security based on related tables
Scalable deep learning model training with Azure Batch AI
Deep learning is an essential component of an analytical toolbox. There are considerable challenges in training deep learning models and this presentation explores how to overcome these using Microsoft’s scalable ML offering, Azure Batch AI.
Securing your Data is Easier than ever with Azure SQL DB
Securing your Data is Easier than ever with Azure SQL Database: A Walk Around the Security Toolset. This will be a demo-heavy overview of the latest security capabilities available, including the newest intelligent data protection features.
Simplifying XEvents Management with dbatools
Bye #TeamProfiler and hi #TeamXEvents with the power of dbatools
Solving ETL bottlenecks with SSIS Scale Out
Do you have large-scale SSIS platforms which experience bottlenecks due to the number of packages or volumes of data that need to be processed? Yes! Then you need to explore SSIS scale out.
SQL Intelligence excels your tuning and security expertise
Azure SQL Database built-in intelligence features will help you improve performance and security of your database and dramatically reduce the overhead of managing thousands of databases.
SQL Operations Studio: the state of the art and future
Microsoft SQL Operations Studio is a new light-weight, free and multi-os tools for SQL Server, Azure SQLDB and DW running anywhere.
SQL Server Infernals - A Beginner’s Guide to Worst Practices
When you're in a rush, following best practices is a luxury you may not be able to afford. What about just avoiding worst practices instead? Join me for this session and learn from my mistakes!
SQL Storage Fundamentals for Azure IaaS
SQL disk configuration and planning can really hurt you if you get it wrong in azure. There is a lot more to getting SQL right on Azure VMs than next-next-next.
SSAS Tabular Toolbelt: 6 tools that make your work easier
In this session, I'm going to show you six amazing tools that must be in your developer/consultant toolbelt. These tools help you develop, manage, monitor and optimize your Tabular model, in other words, it makes your day to day job easier.
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