22-25 April 2026 
SQLBits 2014
Power BI, zero to expert
PowerBi is hot. This session starts with an empty Excel workbook and walks you via Power Pivot and Power Query to Power View and Power Map.
In this demo only session we will start out with a blank Excel Workbook. Using Power Pivot we will build a powerful model to analyze our data. Next we will use Power Query to add data to the model, but not before we cleansed to data to make it useful.With a sound model in place we will visualize the data using Power View and Power Map.
Speakers
Peter ter Braake's other proposed sessions for 2026
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Peter ter Braake's previous sessions
Power BI, zero to expert
PowerBi is hot. This session starts with an empty Excel workbook and walks you via Power Pivot and Power Query to Power View and Power Map.
SSIS 2012 logging and monitoring
In this session we will learn about the SSISDB catalog views. We will use this info plus our own info to build a monitoring solution for SSIS using SSRS.