SQLBits 2023

The Most Powerful Azure Service You’ve Never Heard Of

Join Patrick Leblanc from the Power BI CAT team, Josh Luedeman, and Bradley Ball from the Azure FastTrack PG as we talk about the most powerful Azure Service you’ve never heard of. If only you knew the name of the service. Come to this session, and you’ll never forget it!

Join Patrick Leblanc from the Power BI CAT team, Josh Luedeman, and Bradley Ball from the Azure FastTrack PG as we talk about the most powerful Azure Service you’ve never heard of. You’ve probably never worked with this service. You may not have even known it was a part of Azure. It’s amazing! But if you’ve never heard of it, there’s probably something wrong with it, right? Can you use this service with Power BI? Yes you can! What about concurrency limitations? Over 1.5 million concurrent connections enough? Wondering what else it can do? It can process a count on billions of rows sub-second. It can process streaming real-time data, identify anomalies and trends, access between 1 - 1000 Nodes with over 15000 CPU’s, auto scale, process TB and PB of data, provide low-latency ingestion, with time-series analysis, and it is a fully managed data service. If only you knew the name of the service. Come to this session, and you’ll never forget it!

Patrick LeBlanc's previous sessions

Navigating Microsoft Fabric - Choosing the Right Workload for Your Needs

A session to help you choose the right workload for your business needs and to understand current limitations.

Analytics at the speed of Direct Lake

Advanced dive into the exciting new storage mode for Semantic Models.

The Most Powerful Azure Service You’ve Never Heard Of

Join Patrick Leblanc from the Power BI CAT team, Josh Luedeman, and Bradley Ball from the Azure FastTrack PG as we talk about the most powerful Azure Service you’ve never heard of. If only you knew the name of the service. Come to this session, and you’ll never forget it!

The Path to Success with Power BI: Best Practices

Whether you are just getting started with Power BI, or have been around for a while, Adam and Patrick will walk you through the best practices that will get you going in the right direction with Power BI!

Power BI + Azure Synapse Analytics: Beginning your journey

Start your journey using Power BI and Azure Synapse Analytics. From the options available to how to leverage effectively, this will position you well to get the most out of your data.

Keeping your data fresh in Power BI

In this session you will learn how to keep you data up to date i Power BI.

Empowering every individual with Power BI

Data and insights are only valuable when you can collaborate and take action on them, and those insights need to meet the business where they spend their time. The Power BI team are going to do this through Teams and SharePoint, and in productivity apps like Office, and in this session we’ll outline the plans and roadmap for this.

Getting Intimate with the Power BI Desktop

During this all-demo session, we will dig deep into some of the most captivating, but less publicized features of the desktop.

Enable Hybrid Data access with the On-premises Data Gateway

Hybrid data landscapes are common and the on-premises data gateway enables connecting to your on-premises data sources from online services (like Power BI, PowerApps, Microsoft Flow and Logic Apps) without the need to move your data to the cloud. Come to this session to see the latest gateway features and best practices related to setup and configuration along with troubleshooting tips and tricks, investigate bottlenecks and resolve your common gateway errors.

Power BI Report Server: A Deep Dive

So, you think you know everything you need to know about the Power BI Report Server because you use traditional SQL Server Reporting Services. Well, don’t believe it!

Power BI: Adam and Patrick Unplugged

Microsoft's Patrick and Adam answer a lot of questions on Power BI, SSAS and other tech. Those questions result in videos on their YouTube channel. In this session they are going to show a few. Don’t miss out, there is a little something for everyone.

Bradley Ball's previous sessions

Indexing Internals for Developers & DBAs

This is a dive into how indexes work within SQL Server. The goal of this session is for attendees to gain a greater understanding of how Indexes work and how to use them to gain performance.

What we’ve learned running a YouTube channel (so far)

This session is suitable for anyone who is interested in starting or growing their own YouTube channel, or who wants to learn more about the YouTube ecosystem.

Soft Skills eat Technical Skills for Breakfast

Over the years I’ve faced some very difficult situations. Talking down angry customers, de-escalating tense situations, and focusing on the right outcomes. There are a few key books that cover these concepts. In 20 minutes I will tell you what they are, why they are important, and how they saved me more than a few times.

The Most Powerful Azure Service You’ve Never Heard Of

Join Patrick Leblanc from the Power BI CAT team, Josh Luedeman, and Bradley Ball from the Azure FastTrack PG as we talk about the most powerful Azure Service you’ve never heard of. If only you knew the name of the service. Come to this session, and you’ll never forget it!

Migration to Azure Customer Experiences & Best Practices

How to create a roadmap to migrate to Azure, best practices, and using Azure Migrate to start, & customer stories

Inside the Query Optimizer

In this session discuss the query optimizer, the individual phases of optimization, and how understanding these items can impact our queries in a positive way

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