Difinity 2018 Sessions Recording

Kenneth Nielsen – Analytics 200 Level Intermediate This session will show you how to make the most of the Azure Data Platform, when it comes to massive amounts of data, how…

Matt Allington – Power BI  200 Level – Intermediate “In 2011, Microsoft released the Vertipaq (also called xVelocity) database technology on the world. Vertipaq is the database technology that is better…

Siva Harinath and Sergei Gundorov – Power BI 300 Level – Advanced Fast reports are a delight to use. Slow reports languish into obscurity. How do we build reports that are fast…

Samuel Denton- Giles  Analytics 200 Level – Intermediate How Microsoft is trying to simplify deliver of the IoT, examples of how it’s been used for business transformation and how Microsoft is…

Craig Bryden – Power BI  100 Level – Basic “In SQL 2016, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) underwent massive changes with the addition of many new reporting features. Since that release,…

Regis Baccaro – BI  300 Level – Advanced “SQL Server Integration Services in Azure Data Factory v2 is a solution for ETL/ELT workflows. Using SSIS in ADFv2, we will show you…

Chimene Bonhomme – BI  300 Level – Advanced “The Data Science Virtual Machine is designed and configured for working with a broad range of usage scenarios and can be utilised as…

Jonathan Stewart – BI 200 Level – Intermediate Being a BI Professional, you need all the performance tuning the DB folks get and more. In this hour, we will go over important…

Ingeborg Hawighorst – Power BI 200 Level – Intermediate Let’s face it, Excel is still the number one tool for data analysis and visualisation, because it is on everyone’s desk. Charts are…

Ásgeir Gunnarsson – BI  200 Level – Intermediate “Have you ever wanted an overview of your cubes and their dimensions, attributes and measures? This session will show you how you can…

Leila Etaati – Analytics 300 Level – Advanced R integration with Power BI provides more flexibility for users. People are able to have more visualizations which not exist currently in Power BI…

Philip Seamark – Power BI 200 Level – Intermediate There are number of blog posts, technical deep dive(s) and how-to articles on Power BI desktop and service but very few on Gateways…

Regis Baccaro – BI 300 Level – Advanced “Have you ever seen this message “Login failed for user ‘NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON” Have you ever witnessed Kerberos mentioned in a conversation – or…

Kenneth Nielsen – Analytics 200 Level – Intermediate In this session we take a look and a deep dive into Aure Data Lake, a new feature on Azure that will enable amost…

Martin Catherall – SQL Server Admin 200 Level – Intermediate “It’s almost a daily occurrence to hear about some sort of data breach. But what are the consequences of a data breach…

David Lyth – SQL Server Admin 200 Level – Intermediate “SQL Server is moving to a multi-platform world; in this session, we look at – SQL Server running on Windows and Linux;…

Martin Cairney – SQL Server Admin 200 Level – Intermediate In my life as a Consultant, partitioning is one of the least used or even inefficiently used components of SQL Server that…

Hamish Watson – SQL DEV 100 Level – Basic “Test Driven Development (TDD) is a practice that has for years enabled application developers to write code that is less-buggy. It is extremely…

Dharmendra Keshari – SQL Server Admin 300 Level – Advanced “The Query Store feature is a game changer for how SQL Server professionals troubleshoot query performance. It provides the ability to natively…

Edwin Sarmiento – SQL Server Admin 300 Level – Advanced So, you’re tasked to implement SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups but don’t know where to start. You have a lot of different…

Satya Jayanty – SQL DEV 200 Level – Intermediate In this session let us find about (technical overview)what are the foundations and design goals of Azure CosmosDB.  There are many benefits which…

Pinal Dave – SQL Server Admin 100 Level – Basic Data and Database is a very important aspect of application development for businesses. Developers often come across situations where they face a…

Stijn Wynants – SQL Server Admin 200 Level – Intermediate “During this session we will be talking about Columnstore Indexes and how to use them. We will be showing you tips &…

Patrick Flynn – SQL Server Admin 200 Level – Intermediate “In this Session we will look at how Powershell, PowerBI, SSRS, Flow and PoweApps can be used to provided a modern reporting…

Reza Rad – Power BI 200 Level – Intermediate Data Visualization is the front end of every BI system, and getting it right is one of the most important tasks in a…

Tobiasz Koprowski – SQL Server Admin 200 Level – Intermediate “The new releases of Microsoft SQL Server: SQL Server 2016 & 2017 brings new functionality for Data Security Professionals. Now you can protect…

Anupama Natarajan – Analytics 200 Level – Intermediate “In this session you will get to learn a) What are chat bots? b) How to develop a chat bot using Microsoft Bot Framework?…

Dave Dustin – SQL DEV 200 Level – Intermediate A new feature introduced in SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL DB is the ability to describe a graph, store data in form…

Siva Harinath – Power BI 200 Level – Intermediate Microsoft Azure Analysis Services enables you to build comprehensive, enterprise-scale analytic solutions that deliver actionable insights through familiar data visualization tools such as…

Victor Isakov – SQL Server Admin 300 Level – Advanced “With the release of SQL Server 2017, Microsoft has further enhanced the capabilities of Availability Groups. Clearly Microsoft is investing more in…

Tobiasz Koprowski – SQL Server Admin 200 Level – Intermediate “2AM. We sleeping well. And our mobile ringing and ringing. Message: DISASTER! In this session (on slides) we will NOT talk about…

Pinal Dave – SQL Server Admin 200 Level – Intermediate “Oh! What did I do?” Chances are you have heard, or even uttered, this expression. This demo-oriented session will show many examples…

Satya Jayanty – SQL Server Admin 300 Level – Advanced “2,4,8 & 16 – these aren’t just numbers to count or calculate. These are years that how SQL Server evolved as number…

Matt Allington – Power BI 200 Level – Intermediate Evaluation contexts is one of the hardest things to master in DAX. It is not uncommon to think you know how evaluation contexts…

Warwick Rudd – SQL Server Admin 200 Level – Intermediate As a Database professional, we are responsible for ensuring our data is accessible for the business in an optimal manner. However sometimes…

Manohar Punna – SQL Server Admin 200 Level – Intermediate “Microsoft has two different types of SQL Server services available in Azure. The SQL Server on an Azure VM is the IaaS…

Julian Lee – Analytics 200 Level – Intermediate It’s 2018 and AI is definitely here to stay! Learn all about Microsoft’s BotFramework and the various Cognitive Services that support it! In this…

Nagaraj Venkatesan – SQL Server Admin 300 Level- Advanced Automatic Tuning and Adaptive Query Processing are perhaps the two key features of SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database which would influence…

Edwin Sarmiento – SQL Server Admin 300 Level – Advanced With the introduction of Distributed Availability Groups in SQL Server 2016, it is becoming even more confusing to decide on the appropriate…

Gilbert Quevauvilliers – Power BI 200 Level – Intermediate In this session I plan to go over the basics of what is Row Level Security for people in the audience who have…

Stijn Wynants – BI 300 Level – Advanced “Since SQL Server 2016 it is possible to have an OLTP & OLAP workload together. This can be achieved using columnstore indexes. We will…

Julian Lee – Analytics 200 Level – Intermediate So you’ve built your AI/Machine Learning model. What next? How do you extract value out of your model and integrate them into you business?…

Philip Seamark – BI 200 Level – Intermediate Lets have a look at the pros and cons of the two SSAS offerings and see why Multi-Dimensional cubes still have a place  

Robert Blaas – BI 200 Level – Intermediate “With the ever increasing demand of data and information from the business, data professionals are increasingly feeling the pressure to deliver. This often results…

Ásgeir Gunnarsson – Power BI 200 Level – Intermediate “Have you ever wondered if there are scored more goals when it rains or if Stoke wins more games on cold weekday evening…

Samuel Denton-Giles  Analytics – 200 Level – Intermediate Microsoft IoT Central is a fully managed IoT SaaS (software-as-a-service) solution that makes it easy to connect, monitor and manage your IoT assets at…

Lace Lofranco – Analytics  200 Level – Intermediate R, a powerful statistical programming language, is unfortunately single threaded and therefore, natively limited to a single node. What happens when data scientists…

Jonathan Stewart – BI  100 Level – Basic Ever feel like you are just doing busy work while creating new SSIS packages? Feel like you are doing the same thing over…

Regan Murphy – Analytics 200 Level – Intermediate Azure is built to handle big data workloads. From ingesting millions of events per second, to visualizing those events in a dashboard in real…

Myles Matheson – BI 300 Level – Advanced “In this session we walk through the recently announce the technical reference implementation for BI and reporting solution to augment your data science and…

Sergei Gundorov – Power BI 300 Level – Advanced Power BI is not just a self-service tool for business analysts. Power BI has many features that helps developers to build their reporting…

Siva Harinath – Power BI 200 Level – Intermediate Extend your Power BI solution to everyone on your team with Power BI Premium! Learn how our latest offering can bring you dedicated…

Satya Jayanty – SQL Server Admin 300 Level – Advanced “2,4,8 & 16 – these aren’t just numbers to count or calculate. These are years that how SQL Server evolved as number…

Edwin Sarmiento – SQL Server Admin 300 Level – Advanced With the introduction of Distributed Availability Groups in SQL Server 2016, it is becoming even more confusing to decide on the appropriate…