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Website Analytics in My Pocket Using Microsoft Fabric

Join this session to see how easy it is to create a pocket-sized dashboard for your website analytics. First, learn how to automatically collect statistics from an API and store it in a central location. Then, see how quickly you can visualize the data in a mobile-friendly way using Power BI. 📈

Choosing between Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Data Factory

Learn the pros and cons of Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Data Factory, and how to choose the right Data Integration solution for your project.

"I can't keep up!" - Turning Discomfort into Personal Growth in a Fast-Paced World

Are you struggling to keep up with all the latest product changes and new technologies? Awesome! That means you have ambitions. You can do anything if you set your mind to it. It just might not be easy. Are you ready to turn your "I can't keep up" into "I can't believe I did all of that in just one year"?

Stressed, Depressed, or Burned Out? The Warning Signs You Shouldn't Ignore

Stress barges through your door and yells "hey, it's me!", while depression and burnout silently sneak in and gradually make adjustments until one day you turn around and realize that you no longer recognize your house. What are the warning signs you need to be aware of in yourself or your loved ones?

6 Tips for Building Confidence as a Public Speaker

In this session, I share the top tips I have learned over the years. All it takes is a little preparation and practice.

Lessons Learned: Implementing Azure Synapse Analytics in a Rapidly-Changing Startup

What happens when you mix one rapidly-changing startup, one data analyst, one data engineer, and one hypothesis that Azure Synapse Analytics could be the right tool of choice?

Biml Tips and Tricks: Not just for SSIS packages!

Biml is not just for generating SSIS packages! Come and see how you can use Biml to save time and speed up other Data Warehouse development tasks like T-SQL development, test data creation, and dimension population.

Level Up Your Biml: Best Practices and Coding Techniques

Attend this session for an overview of Biml best practices and coding techniques. Learn how to centralize and reuse code, simplify logic, and create your own C# classes and methods. Improve your code and level up your Biml in no time!

Tools and Tips: From accidental to efficient DWH developer

As data warehouse developers we deliver data to business users... but we don't deliver data as fast as we want. There are many things you can do to increase your own productivity and become a more efficient data warehouse developer.

Business Benefits of Good Governance

Data Governance is an enabler. Explore what the new world of Data Governance is and how we help businesses understand the benefits, why it is important, and how to get started in simple agile steps and where Microsoft Purview fits.

Data Governance with Azure Purview - Ask the Experts

Join us for an hour to examine data governance for business and how it can benefit you.

The DBA in a hybrid environment

Ideal for database administrators, developers, and database reliability engineers, this training day will explore all the skills you need to enable you to manage SQL Server estates spanning on-premises and cloud environments.

Managing replication with dbatools

One of the most highly requested dbatools features was for commands to manage replication and now they're here. In this session, we'll run through the available commands and how they can be used to build up and tear down replication.

Anyone can be an alphabet soup ally

Folks that belong to the queer community are often referred to as LGBTQ+, Jess and Linda represent a small portion of the letters within this alphabet soup and they will guide you through some common situations where you can be a good ally. There is no one right answer, but there are ways for you to prepare for certain situations so you know what your best move might be to provide support and allyship. This session will provide tips for people who are new to being an ally and for existing allies who want to add skills to their toolbelt.

I'm here, I'm queer ( Why Representation Matters)

In this 20 minute session we’ll talk about why it matters that ‘I’m here and I’m Queer’. Representation, both at conferences and in the media, is so important not just for us now, but also for the future generations. If you want to know why all this DEI stuff matters, why we need to keep striving to diversify the attendees and speakers at our conferences and events, then this session is for you.

SQL Server 2022 migrations with dbatools

Using dbatools we'll migrate our databases to a shiny new SQL Server 2022 instance.

Keynote by The Community

Ben and Rob have found some wonderful folk to actually do the important parts of the community keynote. on the theme of How to be a nonpassive member of the data community

Introduction to PowerShell

Everything you need to get started with PowerShell.

Migrate databases easily with dbatools

Quickly and easily migrate databases and associated logins using dbatools.

Life Hacks: dbatools edition

dbatools is an open source PowerShell module. This session will walk through several life hacks that you can take back to work and quickly implement to make your life easier and impress your friends.

Install & Configure SQL Server with PowerShell DSC

Using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) we'll install and configure a SQL Server instance in under 5 mins.

Microsoft Defender for SQL: Advanced Threat Protection

Microsoft Defender for SQL is part of the Azure Defender family and it protects SQL Server in two main ways. We'll cover the first way, Advanced Threat Protection. This is a feature with advanced security capabilities that detect anomalous activities that might access or exploit sql server, like SQL Injection.

Understanding Maintenance in Azure SQL

You know Microsoft handles patches and updates for your OS and SQL but what does that really mean? When does that maintenance occur, what might happen and do I have any control? Let's answer these questions and more in 20 minutes.

Women In Tech: Lifting as We Climb

In this session, you'll learn a few actionable steps that anyone can take to support women in tech where you work, every day. From meetings to project assignments, from hiring to sponsorship - women need allies and a support system to offset biases and patterns of behavior that work against their success. We'll start with a short presentation and then pivot to questions and discussions. Feel free to share your day-to-day experiences, and we'll help find actionable steps you can take to improve things.

Microsoft's Hybrid Data Strategy

Learn how to build the best hybrid data strategy with Azure Stack and Azure Arc.

Breaking (in)visible walls - how helping others may help your personal growth!

After this session, you'll get nothing in terms of tech knowledge, but you will walk away with a good feeling in your soul, and understand why helping others also helps YOU in breaking many (in)visible walls!