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7 Databases in 70 Minutes
Learn about 7 SQL and NoSQL databases: how they work, when to use them, and how they form a modern data architecture
AD 2015. 2AM A Disaster just Began
2AM. We sleeping well. And our mobile ringing and ringing. Message: DISASTER! In this session (on slides) we are NOT talk about potential disaster (such BCM); we talk about: What happened NOW?
Agnostic, Hybrid Big Data Integration using PDW and PolyBase
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.
Alarm for Data Governance! Self-Service BI is coming
This session will show you what is possible in the Power BI Offering of Microsoft in relation to Data Governance
All about Indexes
Indexes are essential to good database performance, but it can be hard to decide what indexes to create. In this session we'll look at guidelines for index creation
All About Indexing
Indexes are the best instrument for query optimization. But what kind of indexes and on what columns? The key to answering those questions is understanding how indexes are stored and used by SQL Server. And that is exactly what this session is about.
Amazing Things You Can Do With Power BI
A fun session showing some amazing things you can do with Power BI
An End-to-End Troubleshooting Checklist for SQL Server
Microsoft ships a multitude of tools to help detect, diagnose and resolve problems inside of SQL Server. But which is best to use and when? This session teaches attendees how to tackle the troubleshooting process to achieve repeated, optimal results.
An Introduction To Column Store Indexes and Batch Mode
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.
An introduction to the Power BI Designer
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.
Analysing Text with SQL Server 2014
This session introduces SQL Server 2012 and 2014 text mining capabilities.
Analytics Master Class-exploiting exotic patterns in data
There are some little-known but very useful ways of extracting information from data. This session will cover: • Monte Carlo simulations • Nyquist’s Theorem • Simpson’s paradox • Benford’s Law These will rock your world (they certainly rocked mine).
Analyze data streams with Azure stream analytics
Azure stream analytics is a new Azure service for analyzing streaming data.
Automating Your Database Deployments
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 from the ground up
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.
Azure Networks and VMs for the DB Guy
Sometimes don't want our data in the cloud, but that doesn't mean we can't use the cloud at all.
Behaviour Analysis MDX
A SSAS MDX Deep Dive session covering the implementation of a business requirement to identify rogue behaviour over time and within SCD organisation groups.
Best Practices for multi-environment database development
A journey from dev to production. This talk covers best practices for developing and deploying Visual Studio Database Projects targeting multiple environments. We will cover using composite projects, pre and post deployment scripts and other optionst
BI DBA Performance Tuning
Understanding how SQL Server performance tuning works is not just a job for DBA's. It is important for BI professionals to understand as well
Boost your T-SQL with the APPLY Operator
The session starts with a brief overview of the operator and it
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