Thank you to everyone that attended my Power BI webinar last month, September 29th. Sorry its taken me a while to finally make the information available, but my schedule has been crazy lately! The good news is, however, the recording is available! So if you weren’t able to watch the webinar live, you can still catch the recording anytime you like.
Continue reading Power BI Tips, Tricks & Best Practices Webinar Recording & Materials Now Available
SQL Saturday #442 in Orlando, FL has come and gone but what a turn out! The event was excellent, we had a great turnout for our session and had a blast! And as a bonus, the BBQ lunch, baked beans, coleslaw, mac n cheese and dessert were amazing. Seriously one of the best lunches I’ve had a SQL Saturday event! Plus, the Lego name tags were epic! 100% without a doubt the coolest name tag ever.
Continue reading Thank You for Attending my #SQLSatOrlando Session! Slides, Resources, Recording
SQL Saturday #442 is upon us and yours truly will be presenting in Orlando, Florida on October 10th alongside Mitchell Pearson (b|t). The session is scheduled at 10:35 AM and will last until 11:35 AM. I’m very excited to be presenting at SQL Saturday Orlando this year as it’ll be my first presenting this session in person and my first time speaking at SQL Saturday Orlando! If you haven’t registered yet for this event, you need to do that. This event will be top notch! Continue reading Data Warehouse from the Ground Up at SQL Saturday Orlando, FL on Oct. 10th
Thank you to everyone that attended my webinar titled Power Pivot 101: An Introduction! Also, thank you to Thomas Leblanc (blog|twitter) for making it possible. I had a great time presenting to the PASS Excel BI Virtual Chapter and I’d love to be able to do it again any time.
If you weren’t able to make the webinar, you can easily view the entire recording right here!
If you’d like to play along with the webinar and follow through with my examples, you can download the data sources here.
If you want to download the Power Pivot model I created during the webinar and play around with it, that can be download here, as well.
Read about options for upgrading a Power Pivot model.
Here is part 1 of 10 DAX calculations for your Power Pivot model.
We had a lot of questions at the end of the webinar and I didn’t have time to answer all the questions. If you had a question that I didn’t get to, please just leave a comment down below with your question.
If you had any other feedback, you can leave that comment down below, as well. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy the webinar.
I’m excited to be able to say that coming up next week on Thursday September 10, I’ll be presenting my session Power Pivot 101: An Introduction to the PASS Excel BI Virtual Chapter! For a lot of users, Power Pivot is like the Ferrari you had in your garage but weren’t aware and that’s one of the reasons I’m so excited to be able to present on this topic. This session is completely free and available to all who would like to attend. It doesn’t get much better than that!
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Power Pivot is a powerful yet flexible analytics tool built into a familiar environment yet many users remain unsure of how to take advantage of this dynamic tool. In this session, we’ll discuss the purpose of Power Pivot, where Power Pivot fits within your organization and the basics of designing a Power Pivot model that integrates disparate data sources with the goal of gaining previously unrecognized insight into key business metrics.
This free online training event is scheduled for Thursday September 10th at 12 pm CST/1 pm EST. If you’re interested in attending, all you need to do is RSVP here to let the organizers know you’re coming. It’s going to be a great event, a lot of fun and maybe even educational! 😉
Thank you to everyone that registered and attended my webinar Designing your Data Warehouse from the Ground Up webinar this past Tuesday. And I’d also like to give a special thanks to my good friend, Mitchell Pearson (b|t), for helping me present this webinar. We had a great time!
Also, thank to everyone that tuned into the live broadcast of the webinar on Periscope! I hope you enjoyed the unique perspective Periscope gives.
The good news is that Continue reading Designing a Data Warehouse from the Ground Up Webinar Recording with Q & A
As a Business Intelligence Consultant, I do a decent amount of speaking, interacting with the community, and have written and contributed on a few SQL Server books. A question I’m often asked is if I can recommend any good books which brings me to this blog post. I wanted to make you aware of four books for learning data warehousing and other MS BI technologies that I’ve found incredibly helpful over the years I’ve spent designing and implementing enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence solutions. Continue reading My Top Four Books for the MS Business Intelligence Professional
I’m very excited to announce that I’ve been selected to present a session entitled Designing a Data Warehouse from the Ground Up on October 10, 2015 in Orlando, Florida at Seminole State College of Florida! I’ll be presenting this session for the first time along side Mitchell Pearson (b|t). This is going to be an amazing event with tons of amazing, FREE training for everyone including SQL server newbies on up to those who have been in the profession for years. Continue reading Learn Designing a Data Warehouse from the Ground Up at SQL Saturday 442 Orlando, FL
Over the last couple days you may have noticed some slight changes on my blog. Well believe you me when I say some more are coming! You may be asking yourself, “Self, what are all these changes for? Dustin’s blog was already great! Why mess with a good thing?” That’s a good question and one I hope to answer through this blog post.
My WordPress blog site will be getting an upgrade! My current blog layout has served me well and I have always liked the look and feel but Continue reading Changes are A’comin’!
It’s that time of year again! SQL Saturday in Jacksonville, FL is upon us once again and I’m excited to be presenting a session titled, “Welcome to SSAS Tabular Models.” SQL Saturday #391 will be held on May 9th, 2015 in Jacksonville, Florida at the University of North Florida and is a totally free training event for SQL Server professionals and anyone wanting to learn about SQL Server!
My session is called, “Welcome to SSAS Tabular Models”, and will function as an introductory session on developing an SSAS Tabular model the right way. In this session I’ll discuss how to decide if building a Tabular model is the right choice, how to build a Tabular model completely from scratch, best practices you should follow, and things to avoid. If you’re new to Tabular Modeling or wanting to learn best practices, this will be a great session for you.
To get registered for SQL Saturday #391 completely for free, head over to SQLSaturday.com and click Register Now!
