Category Archives: SQL Saturday

Welcome to Azure Synapse at SQL Saturday Tampa 2020

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SQL Saturday Tampa is coming up again in a couple of weeks on February 29th and I’m excited to announce that I’ll be there and presenting my session Welcome to Azure Synapse. In this session, I’m planning to deliver a overview of Azure Synapse as well as demo Synapse Studio!

Microsoft’s powerful new service, Azure Synapse, brings together the worlds of data warehousing and big data analytics by providing a unified experience for ingesting, cleansing, modeling, and sharing data. In this session, we’ll discuss the basics of Azure Synapse, ideal uses cases for Azure Synapse, and demonstrate how attendees can use Azure Synapse. By the conclusion of this session, attendees will have a deeper understanding of Azure Synapse and how to begin using Azure Synapse.

So if you’re in the area and interested in learning more about Azure Synapse, this will be a great session for you. You’ll need to register for SQL Saturday Tampa here. Don’t hesitate though, this event will fill up very quickly! I hope to see you there!

See You at SQL Saturday South Florida on Saturday June 8th!

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SQL Saturday South Florida is on Saturday June 8th and its just around the corner! The event is hosted at the Nova Southeastern University campus in Davie, Florida near Fort Lauderdale and its always a tremendous event with great speakers, content, and fun with the community. If you haven’t registered then you need to do it right away by going here. But I’m also excited and please that I’ll be delivering two sessions! Continue reading See You at SQL Saturday South Florida on Saturday June 8th!

Power BI Governance 101 at SQL Saturday 820 in Jacksonville, Florida on May 4

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Coming up in just a couple of weeks, I’ll be presenting my session, Power BI Governance 101, at SQL Saturday #820 in Jacksonville, Florida on May 4th. The event will kick off at 8 AM with breakfast and sessions will be starting at 9 AM! SQL Saturday Jacksonville is being hosted at the beautiful University of North Florida campus. I’ve attended a lot of SQL Saturday events, and the Jacksonville event is my favorite to attend! It’s well organized, the speakers and content are top quality, and it’s always a great crowd.

But this year’s event is special! This year’s SQL Saturday in Jacksonville is a Jedi-themed event! So don’t forget to wear your favorite Star Wars gear! I know I will! You seriously do not want to miss this event!

Get Registered Here

My session, Power BI Governance 101, is scheduled for 10:15 AM in room Coruscant 51-1205. Deploying an enterprise business intelligence solution is no small task but one of the most important factors to consider in order to have a successful roll-out of a self-service analytics tool like Power BI is governance. We’ll discuss why governance is so important for a successful Power BI deployment, what are the components of Power BI that require governance, and how to govern your Power BI environment. By the end of this session, you should have a clearer understanding of governance in the context of Power BI. Check out the event schedule here.

If you’re planning to attend, leave a comment here and don’t forget to stop by and say “hi”!

Data Warehouse Design and Power BI at SQL Saturday Tampa 2019

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Hello, fellow data nerds! I wanted to make you aware of a fantastic event coming up this month in Tampa, Florida. On Saturday, March 23, 2019, the annual SQL Saturday event will be hosted at the University of South Florida! This is a really tremendous opportunity to engage in some quality training at little to no cost. If you’re able to be in the Tampa area Saturday 3/23 then you need to register for this event. I’ve seen the schedule and the line up is impressive! Old dogs and young dogs alike will learn something new from a host of professionals and industry experts!

I’ll be presenting two sessions during the morning of March 23 at SQL Saturday Tampa and I’d love to see you there!

Making Sense of the Power BI Ecosystem

Power BI has taken the world by storm since it’s release in mid-2015. Since then, Microsoft’s cloud analytics service has matured and grown in scope and complexity. In this session, we’ll seek to understand the moving parts of the Power BI ecosystem including Power BI Pro, Premium, Report Server, Embedded, Data Flows, and more. By the end of this session the audience should have a firm grasp on the components ecosystem and how those components work together.

Building a Data Warehouse from the Ground Up

What if you could approach any business process in your organization and quickly design an effective and optimal dimensional model using a standardized step-by-step method? In this session we’ll discuss the steps required to design a unified dimensional model that is optimized for reporting and follows widely accepted best practices. We’ll also discuss how the design of our dimensional model affects a semantic modeling technologies like SQL Server Analysis Services or Power BI and how the choices we make during the data warehouse design phase can make or break our reports.

I hope you can make it to this really amazing event and can make it to one of my sessions! Don’t forget to register! If you do, swing by and say hi to me!

Making Sense of the Power BI Ecosystem Presentation Materials

I just wrapped up my first presentation on Making Sense of the Power BI Ecosystem at SQL Saturday #755 in Davie, Florida at Nova Southeastern University. The room was full and unfortunately people had to stand or sit in the back, but the audience was great and we had lots of fantastic questions!

Download the presentation materials for Making Sense of the Power BI Ecosystem

As I mentioned during my session, you can download my Power BI Architecture Diagram hereContinue reading Making Sense of the Power BI Ecosystem Presentation Materials

Monitoring and Tuning Azure SQL Database at SQL Saturday Jacksonville and 24 Hours of Pass

I’m speaking at two upcoming events that I wanted to share with you! My topic is Monitoring and Tuning Azure SQL Database. Being able to monitor and tune the performance of your database is an important part of any database professional’s job. Azure introduces a host of new tools and capabilities designed to make optimizing your managed databases easier than ever. In this session, you’ll be introduced to using tools such as  Continue reading Monitoring and Tuning Azure SQL Database at SQL Saturday Jacksonville and 24 Hours of Pass

Building Your Brand and Becoming a Thought Leader Session Materials

Thank you to everyone that attending my session today at SQL Saturday #649 in Jacksonville, Florida! It was a packed room with over 70 people attending my session and the audience was lively! We had lots of great questions and tons of awesome interaction! If you want to download my slide deck from today’s presentation you can do that right below. Continue reading Building Your Brand and Becoming a Thought Leader Session Materials

Thank You for Attending my #SQLSatOrlando Session! Slides, Resources, Recording

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

Data Warehouse from the Ground Up at SQL Saturday Orlando, FL on Oct. 10th

SQL Saturday #442SQL 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

I’m Speaking at SQL Saturday #391 in Jacksonville, FL May 9th

image 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!