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Do you want to be the hero that liberates your team's data with first class visualizations in less than an hour? This session will show you how to do it. Power BI is a full offering that allows you to ... more
Level: Beginner
Speaker: Steve Howard
Topics: Azure & Cloud Database/SQL
What are your nearest stores to somebody’s current location? Which policy holders are within 10 miles of a given storm’s track? What percentage of the raw materials in your product was harvested withi ... more
Level: Intermediate
Speaker: Jason Follas
Topics: Database/SQL Entity Framework
Data fueled applications are everywhere in the organization. New projects are acquiring data from outside the organization at an exponential rate. Business partnerships are being formed and data is ... more
Level: Beginner
Speaker: David Harper
Topics: Database/SQL
Simplify coordination of changes across multiple teams, environments, applications, and projects. While storing all iterations of changes in a version control system. I will be talking about the featu ... more
Level: Beginner
Speaker: Ronnie Hicks
Topics: Database/SQL Visual Studio
DocumentDB is the document database offering on the Azure platform. We'll take a look at what is, how you can use it, how much it costs, and how it compares to other cloud-based document database offe ... more
Level: Beginner
Speaker: Brian Korzynski
Topics: Azure & Cloud Database/SQL
In this session we will introduce HDInsight, the HortonWorks Hadoop distribution on Azure. We will talk about what Hadoop is, review HDFS, Hive, Spark, Flume, and talk about why it is gaining popular ... more
Level: Intermediate
Speaker: Jim Welch
Topics: Azure & Cloud Database/SQL
Tuning T-SQL queries is both an art and a science. SQL Server comes with several free tools you can use to understand just what is going on under the hood with a particular query and how the performan ... more
Level: Intermediate
Speaker: Kathi Kellenberger
Topics: Database/SQL
This intermediate level session includes key considerations for optimizing SQL Server performance with proper indexes. A brief review of traditional b-tree and memory-optimized index structures is fo ... more
Level: Intermediate
Speaker: Dan Guzman
Topics: Database/SQL
Do you have SQL Server questions but don't know whom to ask? Bring your questions to this SQL Server Q&A open forum. Microsoft Data Platform MVPs Kathi Kellenberger and Dan Guzman will on hand to an ... more
Level: Beginner
Speaker: Dan Guzman
Topics: Database/SQL
SQL Server is a popular and powerful relational database system. It's easy to install with just a few clicks. Create a database, and you are in business. It will run great without much attention...unt ... more
Level: Intermediate
Speaker: Kathi Kellenberger
Topics: Database/SQL
Are you curious what the proverbial Jones family is up to? This session is designed to look at some of the data industry "mega trends" that are not only disrupting how we view data, but how we store ... more
Level: Beginner
Speaker: David Harper
Topics: Azure & Cloud Database/SQL Security