I am a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft UK specialising in data . I got interested in large databases while at HM Customs in the nineties as part of the move to intelligence led resourcing, but another inititive namely outsourcing meant that career no2 was in the in the private sector working for a number of gold partners, before joining Microsoft 8 years ago. I got into SQL Server in v6 and have used this platform almost exclusively since then for a wide variety of clients from tiny breweries to global banks. Now I am at Microsoft I work on proof of concepts currently around the Cortana Analytics Suite like Machine Learning and Data Lake.
Sessions
What does Katmai do for BI
Reporting in SQL Server 2008
SQL Server – Under New Management
In this session we will cover 3 new enhancements to the Database Engine. Application and Multi-Server Management introduces new capabilities for managing, monitoring and exploiting your SQL Server Infrastructure through the new SQL Server Control Point and enhancements to SSMS and Policy Based Management and Data-tier application packages. SQL Connection Plans allow you to logically refer to an application in connection strings rather than servers making migration of database applications across your SQL Server infrastructure much easier. Unicode compression in R2 enhances the native data compression capabilities introduced in SQL 2008 for Unicode data using SCSU (Simple Compression Scheme for Unicode Data)
An introduction with worked examples of the new Data Lake storage platform in Azure.