Approx. Running order for the night

6:00 - 6:15: Registration & Intro

6:15 - 7:15: Part 1.

7:15 - 7:30: Break and Refreshments

7:30 - 8:30: Part 2.

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Featured Presentation:

Powershell

Rob Sewell, SQL DBA Team Manager -

Introduction to Powershell SQLServer provider Using the SQL Powershell Server Module (SQLPS)

About Rob: Rob is a SQL Server DBA with a passion for Powershell, Azure, Automation, and SQL (PaaS geddit?). He is an officer for the PASS PowerShell Virtual Chapter and has spoken at and volunteered at many events. He is a member of the committee that organises SQL Saturday Exeter and also European PowerShell Conference. He is a proud supporter of the SQL and Powershell communities. He relishes sharing and learning and can be found doing both via Twitter and his blog. He spends most of his time looking at a screen and loves to solve problems. He knows that looking at a screen so much is bad for him because his wife tells him so. Thus, you can find him on the cricket field in the summer and flying a drone in the winter. He has a fabulous beard

Power BI

Mary Fealty, Consultant Broadtree Solutions

Introduction to using Microsoft's Power BI Visualisations. For anyone not yet aware of it, Power BI is ultimately, Microsoft's entry level SQL Server Analysis services tabular plus a front end data visualisations tool. In this demo-focused session, Mary will be using a SQL dataset to walk through some of the built-in and custom visualisations available in Power BI Desktop. Mary will walk through how to use and format these to create compelling visualisations.

About Mary: Mary is an old gamer who replaced her enjoyment of gaming with working with data. That’s how satisfying Power BI is to her. Plus, she makes a living from it, as the owner of Broadtree Solutions, based in Belfast, covering the UK & Ireland. She can be occasionally spotted on Game of Thrones as a Wildling.