Difinity 2018 Sessions Recording

Difinity 2018 Sessions Recording

Watch all videos from Difinity 2018. 55 technical sessions plus a keynote. more than 60 hours of content about Power BI, Microsoft SQL Server, AI, Analytics, Machine Learning, Azure and IOT.

WHAT IS DIFINITY CONFERENCE 2018

List of all sessions in this recording series

Microsoft Data Platform, Business Intelligence, and Analytics Conference

 2018-03-09_13h17_47
Difinity is the largest Microsoft Data Platform, Business Intelligence, and Analytics Conference in New Zealand. IT Decision Makers, Developers, Analysts, IT Professionals, BI Managers, BI Professionals, Database Administrators, Architects, Digital & Big Data business leaders, and Consultants will gather for three consecutive days of learning. There will be 55 technical sessions delivered by 40 speakers from all around the world, including Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, Microsoft Certified Masters, and Microsoft Corporate’s product teams. Sessions will be split into tracks for Data Platform, Business Intelligence, and Analytics. 40 Speakers; 10+ from Microsoft, 20+ Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP), MCMs and Microsoft Certified Architects (MCA). 8 pre-conference workshops at 12th of Feb. and 55 sessions at 13th and 14th of Feb. More details about the conference here: http://difinity.co.nz/ List of all sessions in this recording series

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Watch all videos from Difinity 2018. 55 technical sessions plus a keynote. more than 60 hours of content about Power BI, Microsoft SQL Server, AI, Analytics, Machine Learning, Azure and IOT.

WHAT IS DIFINITY CONFERENCE 2018

Microsoft Data Platform, Business Intelligence, and Analytics Conference

 2018-03-09_13h17_47

Difinity is the largest Microsoft Data Platform, Business Intelligence, and Analytics Conference in New Zealand. IT Decision Makers, Developers, Analysts, IT Professionals, BI Managers, BI Professionals, Database Administrators, Architects, Digital & Big Data business leaders, and Consultants will gather for three consecutive days of learning.

There will be 55 technical sessions delivered by 40 speakers from all around the world, including Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, Microsoft Certified Masters, and Microsoft Corporate’s product teams. Sessions will be split into tracks for Data Platform, Business Intelligence, and Analytics.

40 Speakers; 10+ from Microsoft, 20+ Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP), MCMs and Microsoft Certified Architects (MCA). 8 pre-conference workshops at 12th of Feb. and 55 sessions at 13th and 14th of Feb.

More details about the conference here: http://difinity.co.nz/

 

Lessons

DAX as a Query Language

Length: 76 minutes

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…

Azure IoT – Opportunities are Endless

Length: 76 minutes

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…

SSRS and Power BI Report Server – What’s new

Length: 76 minutes

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,…

SSIS in Azure Data Factory v2 – a game changer?

Length: 76 minutes

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…

Performance Tuning for the BI Professional

Length: 76 minutes

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…

Dynamic charts for browser and mobile with Excel

Length: 76 minutes

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…

Analysis Services Data DNA

Length: 76 minutes

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…

Endless Possibilities: R and Power BI

Length: 76 minutes

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…

Power BI Gateways as a solution

Length: 76 minutes

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…

Kerberos for BI

Length: 76 minutes

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…

Data Privacy and the Data Professional

Length: 75 minutes

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…

SQL Server 2016 Query Store

Length: 75 minutes

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…

Azure Cosmos DB

Length: 75 minutes

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…

Database Monitoring and Reporting in 2018

Length: 75 minutes

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…

Power BI Visualization Best Practices

Length: 75 minutes

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…

Secure your data at rest – on demand, now!

Length: 80 minutes

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…

SQL Server Graph Database

Length: 75 minutes

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…

Super Charge Power BI and What is new with Analysis Services

Length: 75 minutes

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…

Correctly Architecting Availability Group Solutions

Length: 75 minutes

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…

AD 2018. 2 AM. A New Disaster just began.

Length: 80 minutes

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…

Secrets of SQL Server – Database Worst Practices

Length: 75 minutes

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…

Evaluation Contexts in DAX

Length: 80 minutes

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…

Performance Tuning with SQLSentry for SQL Server

Length: 75 minutes

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…

Adaptive Query Processing and Automatic Tuning

Length: 75 minutes

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…

Power BI Row Level Security Made Easy

Length: 74 minutes

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…

Realtime Analytics: OLAP & OLTP in the mix!

Length: 75 minutes

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…

Why MDX cubes aren’t dead yet

Length: 75 minutes

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  

Microsoft IoT Central – Enterprise IOT as-a-Service

Length: 75 minutes

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…

Scalable Data Science with SparkR on HDInsight

Length: 75 minutes

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…

An introduction to the magical world of BIML!

Length: 75 minutes

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…

Big Data Ingestion and Analytics with Microsoft Azure

Length: 78 minutes

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…

Power BI Embedded; Developers Guide

Length: 75 minutes

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…

Introducing Power BI Premium

Length: 75 minutes

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…