
Eugene Meidinger
Proposed Sessions for 2026
Fabric has a lot of sources of T-SQL and they aren't all created equally. Learn all the places you can use T-SQL in Fabric and the various limitations compared to on-prem.
Fabric licensing is confusing. We'll talk about it in plain English, from complete scratch. By the end you'll know what you need to get started.
In this session, we'll present a framework for what tasks should be outsourced to and LLM and what should not. We'll walk you through a sample project of having to clean up a legacy Power BI report based on the Adventureworks sample database. This session go from report discovery to data access to data modeling to data layout.
In this session we will cover all of the groundwork you need to use LLMs to speed up your work with Power BI development. We'll cover getting your environment set up, basic LLM theory, and getting an intuition for model strengths and weaknesses. By the end of the session you'll feel comfortable getting started.
In this session, I'll talk about my own experiences with depression and how you can take a data-based approach to deal with it. We'll cover how it comes from cognitive distortions and how to treat it.
In this session we'll make a framework on how to keep up with technology. We talk about the types of investments you can make and how that impact learning. And we'll see how AI is making that slightly easier but also a lot worse.
Power BI can often place unwanted load on SQL Server. There are a number of things you can optimize Power BI refreshes on the SQL Side. There are also unique challenges with DirectQuery mode for PBI.