Understanding Statistics in SQL Server Level: Intermediate Description: Are you new to performance tuning and confounded by statistics? Do you wonder where these statistics come from, and how the optimizer gets the estimates from statistics? Join me as we dive deep into cardinality estimation, how SQL Server uses statistics to build execution plans, where to find information about how statistics got used […]
SQL Server 2019 and Persistent Memory: Performance and Scale Description: Data volumes have exploded. There is much more data at rest than ever before with only a small amount of the ingested data ever processed. Intel estimates that this is less than 1% of the volume […]
A Tour through Azure SQL Database Description: Have you been wondering what Azure SQL Database is and what it means for you as a production DBA? Azure SQL Database has become an Enterprise-worthy database platform that provides relational database-as-a-service. In this session you’ll get a grounding […]
Topic: Power BI Architecture End-to-End Description: This session is a technical overview of Power BI architecture options for cloud, on-premises, and hybrid deployments. We will discuss the roles of Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, Power BI Report Server, Power BI Embedded, Excel, as well as […]
Topic: The Future Is Here for Containers! Description: Demonstrate how to use docker swarm to quickly spin up many containers and persist the same data set to all of the containers. This is what every developer wants. Should your container be on premise or the cloud? […]
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Demystifying Chart Types and Report Design Principles in Power BI Description: Failing to deliver a well-designed Power BI Report can be a common reporting pitfall. What good is quality data if it is not presented in a way that is meaningful or easily understood? Someone without […]