How to be more productive with SQL Server 2008 by using the latest features and tools. A presentation to the San Francisco SQL Server User Group in May 2009. Speaker Joel Champagne also presents a SQL-Hero demo.
American Fraternal Alliance Annual Meeting 2015Kevin Pledge
The document discusses the growing trend of online life insurance sales and argues that fraternal insurers should embrace online distribution to remain competitive. It notes that 85% of consumers now research insurance online and that the average agent age is 57, representing a disconnect with younger consumers. The document outlines Teachers Life's success in developing an online quoting, application, and purchase process that is faster, more scalable, and lower-cost than traditional methods. It proposes that Acceptiv and Teachers Life provide a turnkey solution for fraternals to launch online sales, including products, underwriting, administration and customer support.
Angel Abundez of DesignMind explains how to build and automate data sets and data models in Excel using the Power BI toolset. You'll see how to pull data from a variety of on-premise and cloud data sources to familiarize yourself with the latest capabilities of Power Query and Power Pivot. Then you'll learn about the software required to automate your Power BI analysis whether you are trying to refresh your Excel workbooks on a file server, in SharePoint Online, or SharePoint. on-premise.
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) - A Practical Introduction Mark Ginnebaugh
Patrick Sheehan of Microsoft covers platform architecture, data warehousing methodology, and multi-dimensional cube development.
You will learn:
* How to develop and deploy data cubes using SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
* Optimal data warehouse methodology for use with SSAS
* Tips/tricks for designing & building cubes over no warehouse/suboptimal source system (it happens)
* Cube processing types - How/why to use each
* Cube design practices + How to build and deploy cubes!
Platfora - An Analytics Sandbox In A World Of Big DataMark Ginnebaugh
As Big Data becomes the norm in dealing with data volume, variety, and velocity, it becomes increasingly harder for the Data Analyst to understand and work with data sets. To overcome this we introduce Platfora, a Hadoop backed data analysis framework which nicely complements more traditional data warehousing and BI solutions. This presentation covers ingestion of new data and building of data sets and visualizations,in a system that requires no more work than interacting with a graphical interface. You'll see examples of peer-to-peer lending and how insights on loan applicants and their risk profiles can be quickly revealed with no ETL development or demanding data transformation.
Microsoft SQL Server Relational Databases and Primary KeysMark Ginnebaugh
SQL Server guru Ami Levin explains some of the fundamental design principles of relational databases: normalization rules, key selection, and the controversies associated with these issues from a practical perspective.
This presentation hits on the benefits and challenges of using different types of keys - natural, surrogates, artificial, and others.
Each key offers benefits from multiple aspects: data consistency, application development, maintenance, portability and performance.
Ami Levin is a Microsoft MVP and a consultant with SolidQ. Last fall he moved to California from Israel, where he led the Israeli SQL Server User Group.
DesignMind Microsoft Business Intelligence SQL ServerMark Ginnebaugh
DesignMind is a custom software firm in San Francisco specializing in SQL Server, SharePoint, .NET, and Microsoft Business Intelligence.
We're a Microsoft Certified Partner with expertise in Business Intelligence, Data Platform, Portals and Collaboration, and Custom Development. Our Business Intelligence team specializes in Enterprise Data Warehouse, Data Mart, Mobile Business Intelligence, and Self-Service BI.
San Francisco Bay Area SQL Server July 2013 meetingsMark Ginnebaugh
San Francisco Bay Area July 2013 Microsoft SQL Server and Business Intelligence meetings.
Learn more:
www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-SQL-Server-Meetup-Group
www.meetup.com/The-SiliconValley-SQL-Server-User-Group
www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Bay-Area-Microsoft-BI-User-Group
American Fraternal Alliance Annual Meeting 2015Kevin Pledge
The document discusses the growing trend of online life insurance sales and argues that fraternal insurers should embrace online distribution to remain competitive. It notes that 85% of consumers now research insurance online and that the average agent age is 57, representing a disconnect with younger consumers. The document outlines Teachers Life's success in developing an online quoting, application, and purchase process that is faster, more scalable, and lower-cost than traditional methods. It proposes that Acceptiv and Teachers Life provide a turnkey solution for fraternals to launch online sales, including products, underwriting, administration and customer support.
Angel Abundez of DesignMind explains how to build and automate data sets and data models in Excel using the Power BI toolset. You'll see how to pull data from a variety of on-premise and cloud data sources to familiarize yourself with the latest capabilities of Power Query and Power Pivot. Then you'll learn about the software required to automate your Power BI analysis whether you are trying to refresh your Excel workbooks on a file server, in SharePoint Online, or SharePoint. on-premise.
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) - A Practical Introduction Mark Ginnebaugh
Patrick Sheehan of Microsoft covers platform architecture, data warehousing methodology, and multi-dimensional cube development.
You will learn:
* How to develop and deploy data cubes using SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
* Optimal data warehouse methodology for use with SSAS
* Tips/tricks for designing & building cubes over no warehouse/suboptimal source system (it happens)
* Cube processing types - How/why to use each
* Cube design practices + How to build and deploy cubes!
Platfora - An Analytics Sandbox In A World Of Big DataMark Ginnebaugh
As Big Data becomes the norm in dealing with data volume, variety, and velocity, it becomes increasingly harder for the Data Analyst to understand and work with data sets. To overcome this we introduce Platfora, a Hadoop backed data analysis framework which nicely complements more traditional data warehousing and BI solutions. This presentation covers ingestion of new data and building of data sets and visualizations,in a system that requires no more work than interacting with a graphical interface. You'll see examples of peer-to-peer lending and how insights on loan applicants and their risk profiles can be quickly revealed with no ETL development or demanding data transformation.
Microsoft SQL Server Relational Databases and Primary KeysMark Ginnebaugh
SQL Server guru Ami Levin explains some of the fundamental design principles of relational databases: normalization rules, key selection, and the controversies associated with these issues from a practical perspective.
This presentation hits on the benefits and challenges of using different types of keys - natural, surrogates, artificial, and others.
Each key offers benefits from multiple aspects: data consistency, application development, maintenance, portability and performance.
Ami Levin is a Microsoft MVP and a consultant with SolidQ. Last fall he moved to California from Israel, where he led the Israeli SQL Server User Group.
DesignMind Microsoft Business Intelligence SQL ServerMark Ginnebaugh
DesignMind is a custom software firm in San Francisco specializing in SQL Server, SharePoint, .NET, and Microsoft Business Intelligence.
We're a Microsoft Certified Partner with expertise in Business Intelligence, Data Platform, Portals and Collaboration, and Custom Development. Our Business Intelligence team specializes in Enterprise Data Warehouse, Data Mart, Mobile Business Intelligence, and Self-Service BI.
San Francisco Bay Area SQL Server July 2013 meetingsMark Ginnebaugh
San Francisco Bay Area July 2013 Microsoft SQL Server and Business Intelligence meetings.
Learn more:
www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-SQL-Server-Meetup-Group
www.meetup.com/The-SiliconValley-SQL-Server-User-Group
www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Bay-Area-Microsoft-BI-User-Group
Presenter: Ernest Hwang of Practice Fusion > This presentation shows how to simplify your database deployments, ensure that no database changes are overlooked, and implement unit tests using the suite of Red Gate developer tools.
You'll see how Practice Fusion streamlines database deployments in their Integration, Testing, Staging, and Production environments. This frees developers from the burden of maintaining deployment scripts, while reducing the number of overlooked breaking changes to zero.
The demo uses a Windows Azure box as the Jenkins (Continuous Integration) server and several SQL Azure databases (representing Integration and QA environments). The entire repository is hosted on GitHub (https://github.com/CF9/Databases.RGDemo), for anyone to download.
You'll learn how to:
* Add your database to source control in under five minutes
* Create a CI Job to validate your database “build”
* Deploy database changes to your environments with a mouse click
* Set up database unit testing using tSQLt
* Avoid problems when implementing Database CI in the “real-world”
Ernest Hwang is a Principal Software Engineer at Practice Fusion in San Francisco. He uses Red Gate SQL Source Control, SQL Compare, SQL Data Compare, and SQL Test to automate Practice Fusion's Continuous Integration efforts and instrument database deployments.
Presenter: Ofer Mendelevitch of Hortonworks > Learn the benefits of big data for data scientists, and how Hadoop and HDInsight fit into the modern data architecture and enable data-driven products.
You'll learn:
* What data science actually means
* The term "data products"
* The benefits of using big data for data scientists
* How Hadoop helps data scientists work with big data
* About HDInsight, the big data platform from Microsoft and Hortonworks
SQL Server implements three different physical operators to perform joins. In this presentation you'll see how each of these operators work plus its advantages and challenges.
You'll learn:
* The logic behind the optimizer's decisions
* Which operator to use for various joins using (semi) real life examples
* How to avoid common join-related pitfalls
Ami Levin is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP and a Mentor with SolidQ. For the past 14 years, he has been consulting, teaching, writing, and speaking about SQL Server worldwide.
Levin’s areas of expertise are data modeling, database design, T-SQL and performance tuning.
Before moving to California, he led the Israeli SQL Server user group (ISUG) and moderated the Hebrew MSDN SQL Server support forum. Ami is a regular speaker at Microsoft Tech-Ed Israel, Dev Academy, and other SQL Server conferences. He blogs at SQL Server Tuning Blog.
Microsoft PowerPivot & Power View in Excel 2013Mark Ginnebaugh
PowerPivot is an add-in for Excel that empowers business users to create their own tabular data models. Power View is also available in the Excel 2013 client. It was first released as a server-based report authoring tool with SQL Server 2012 and is available in SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise.
You'll learn:
* How to work with the add-in in the Excel 2013 client
* How compelling interactive reports can be created quickly and easily
* The new PowerPivot features - including pie charts, maps, KPIs, hierarchies, drill down/drill up, and report styles
Peter Myers specializes in Microsoft Business Intelligence, and provides mentoring, technical training and course content authoring for SQL Server and Office. Peter has current SQL Server and MCT certifications, and has been a Microsoft MVP (Most Valued Professional) since 2007.
Microsoft Data Warehouse Business Intelligence Lifecycle - The Kimball ApproachMark Ginnebaugh
Data Warehouse - Business Intelligence Lifecycle Overview by Warren Thronthwaite
This slide deck describes the Kimball approach from the best-selling Data Warehouse Toolkit, 2nd Edition. It was presented to the Bay Area Microsoft Business Intelligence User Group in October 2012.
Starting with business requirements and project definition, the lifecycle branches out into three tracks: Technical, Data and Applications. You will learn:
* The major steps in the Lifecycle and what needs to happen in each one.
* Why business requirements are so important and how they influence all major decisions across the entire DW/BI system.
* Key tools for prioritizing business requirements and creating an enterprise information framework.
* How to break up a DW/BI system into doable increments that add real business value and can be completed in a reasonable time frame.
Fusion-io Memory Flash for Microsoft SQL Server 2012Mark Ginnebaugh
You've heard about Solid State Drives (SSDs), and might be using them now. To get dramatically improved IO performance, you need Flash Memory – storage that can be connected to your server’s Bus, and really maximize IO.
Fusion-io is an industry leader in this area, and Sumeet Bansal explains how to best employ this powerful technology. You'll learn:
* The many ways Flash can help your SQL Server performance, while at the same time lowering costs
* How you can use Flash optimally for your SQL Server deployment
* Easy, low risk ways to introduce ioMemory into SQL Server environments to instantly realize significant benefits.
* How to implement ioMemory optimally for the most pervasive configurations of SQL Server
Author: William Brown, Microsoft BI Specialist > This slide presentation covers Microsoft Data Mining functionality from the developer to the end user. In the past, data mining belonged to the deep technical specialist, but the current Microsoft stack allows anyone to create very powerful data mining models. Data mining allows users to find insights that are difficult or impossible to discover with traditional analysis.
You'll learn
* How to get started with Data mining
* The various data mining models and where they can be applied
* How to create models and surface the data to users
* How to use the new Excel Data mining add-in
This presentation lists upcoming events and summer 2012 virtual chapter meetings of the Professional Association for SQL Server. You will find meetings about data warehousing, Big Data, Master Data, Powershell, and virtualization.
Learn more about PASS at www.sqlpass.org
Business Intelligence Dashboard Design Best PracticesMark Ginnebaugh
Microsoft BI expert Dan Bulos spoke on Dashboard Design Best Practices to the Bay Area Microsoft Business Intelligence User Group.
This presentation shows techniques for displaying data in a dashboard for maximum impact. Dan also discusses various tools available in the Microsoft BI stack – Reporting Services, Excel, PerformancePoint and the new entry, Power View.
Take a look at Mobile BI on iPad, Windows Phone, SQL Server Reporting Services, and SharePoint with emphasis on data visualization best practices. Angel Abundez explains how design approaches change when launching mission-critical dashboards and reports on smaller screen sizes using touch-screen technology.
Presenter Angel Abundez is a Business Intelligence consultant with DesignMind in San Francisco. He focuses on Business Intelligence, Visualization, and improving business processes using Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint, and ASP.NET. He also works with the new visualizations coming out with PowerPivot, Power View, and SharePoint. Angel is Co-Lead of the Bay Area Business Intelligence User Group and is an active speaker in the SQL Server community.
SQL Server 2012 is the most crucial release of SQL Server to-date. In this slideshow, you'll see how SQL Server 2012 supports mission critical applications 24x7 and gives significant insight into business operations. Presented by Subhash Jawahrani of Microsoft to the Silicon Valley SQL Server User Group in March 2012.
You'll learn about:
* Mission Critical Apps
* New Business Intelligence features
* Improving business agility with Cloud computing
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Master Data ServicesMark Ginnebaugh
Mark Gschwind, VP of Business Intelligence at DesignMind, gave a presentation on Master Data Services (MDS) in SQL Server 2012. He began with an overview of master data and its importance for central curation, quality management, and ease of access for business users. He then reviewed the key capabilities of MDS, including modeling, validation, stewardship, and integration. Gschwind demonstrated creating an MDS model, using the new Excel interface, business rules, and exposing MDS data to a data warehouse. He concluded with tips for successful MDS implementations such as starting small, engaging business users, and using the development environment.
This slideshow is for IT professionals, data analysts, managers, and anyone looking to drive more productivity from Excel. You will learn how you can effectively leverage the add-ins with your own data and analysis requirements.
One of the pillars of the SQL Server 2008 R2 release is Managed Self-Service BI.
Peter Myers of SolidQ will introduce:
* SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel
* SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint
The SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel add-in is a key offering in this pillar, and delivers an entirely new analytic experience to Excel 2010. This add-in allows analysts to load and prepare large volumes of data from various sources to create a multidimensional model. The model can be enriched with sophisticated calculations. Then the model can then be used as the source for PivotTable and PivotChart reports.
With the SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint add-in, the Excel workbooks that host the PowerPivot model can be cataloged in SharePoint and exposed as a data source for other Excel and Reporting Services reports. These SharePoint hosted models can then be managed by IT with scheduled data refreshes from the originating data stores.
Creator: Joel Champagne, President of CodeX Enterprises
This presentation covers various issues associated with SQL unit testing. We’ll look at end solutions in demo form using Visual Studio 2010 and other third party tools.
You'll learn:
* The value of pursuing SQL testing, early and continually in the development cycle
* Capabilities in Visual Studio 2010 to support SQL unit testing
* Capabilities in other tools to support SQL unit testing
Microsoft SQL Server - How to Collaboratively Manage Excel DataMark Ginnebaugh
How to Collaboratively Manage Excel-Based Process Data in SQL Server
Your organization probably uses Excel for a variety of business processes including budgeting, sales revenue forecasting, product demand planning, and project management.
You'll learn how to set up and manage multi-user collaborative processes using Excel as the data form and SQL Server as the data store and process engine.
You'll learn:
* How to enable cell-level collaboration between multiple users using Excel and SQL Server.
* How to effectively integrate desktop Excel-based process data with enterprise applications.
* How to mitigate the limitations normally associated with Excel-to-database connections including record locking (check-in/out), conflict management, and change management and versioning.
Sumeet Bansal of Fusion-io defines a "Dream Database Architecture. You'll Learn:
* If Flash Storage is right for your organization
* How to set up for High Availability
* What's coming next in Solid State Storage
Lastly, you'll hear how software manufacturers are responding to the distributed architecture trend, including validation from leaders such as Microsoft and Oracle.
Microsoft Business Intelligence Performance Management Dan Bulos_2011Mark Ginnebaugh
Dan Bulos, President of Symmetry Corporation discusses how to use Analysis Services to create a robust dashboard and scorecard application.
You Will Learn:
* Why a PM application is unique and how to design a solution
* How to create a “Spine” of metrics and KPIs to integrate data and targets into a coherent data design
* About different scoring methodologies
* How to create a KPI scoring engine within SSAS
* How to explain performance using visualizations
Microsoft SQL Server Filtered Indexes & Sparse Columns Feb 2011Mark Ginnebaugh
Speaker: Don Vilen, Chief Scientist, Buysight & former Microsoft SQL Server Team Member
This session covers the basics of Filtered Indexes and Sparse Columns, and then dives into the areas where they work well—and not so well—both together and separately. Don will show demos that show how they work and when they work well.
SQL Server Managing Test Data & Stress Testing January 2011Mark Ginnebaugh
A quick look at some of the available functionality for SQL Server developers who have access to Visual Studio 2010 and SQL-Hero.
With Visual Studio 2010 Premium (and Professional to a degree) delivering similar capabilities to what was available in VS 2008 Database Pro Edition, the ability to generate a mass amount of sample data for your database has only gotten more accessible with time.
Realizing that other tools exist in this space and not all SQL developers use Visual Studio, we’ll also take a look at the third party data generation facility available in SQL-Hero, seeing how we can create thousands (or millions!) of records very quickly using a powerful rules engine, plus automate this process to support continuous integration strategies.
Presenter: Dean Richards of Confio Software
If you're a developer or DBA, this presentation will outline a method for determining the best execution plan for a query every time by utilizing SQL Diagramming techniques.
Whether you're a beginner or expert, this approach will save you countless hours tuning a query.
You Will Learn:
* SQL Tuning Methodology
* Response Time Tuning Practices
* How to use SQL Diagramming techniques to tune SQL statements
* How to read executions plans
Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdfUiPathCommunity
👉 Check out our full 'Africa Series - Automation Student Developers (EN)' page to register for the full program:
https://bit.ly/Automation_Student_Kickstart
In this session, we shall introduce you to the world of automation, the UiPath Platform, and guide you on how to install and setup UiPath Studio on your Windows PC.
📕 Detailed agenda:
What is RPA? Benefits of RPA?
RPA Applications
The UiPath End-to-End Automation Platform
UiPath Studio CE Installation and Setup
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Introduction to Automation
UiPath Business Automation Platform
Explore automation development with UiPath Studio
👉 Register here for our upcoming Session 2 on June 20: Introduction to UiPath Studio Fundamentals: https://community.uipath.com/events/details/uipath-lagos-presents-session-2-introduction-to-uipath-studio-fundamentals/
Presenter: Ernest Hwang of Practice Fusion > This presentation shows how to simplify your database deployments, ensure that no database changes are overlooked, and implement unit tests using the suite of Red Gate developer tools.
You'll see how Practice Fusion streamlines database deployments in their Integration, Testing, Staging, and Production environments. This frees developers from the burden of maintaining deployment scripts, while reducing the number of overlooked breaking changes to zero.
The demo uses a Windows Azure box as the Jenkins (Continuous Integration) server and several SQL Azure databases (representing Integration and QA environments). The entire repository is hosted on GitHub (https://github.com/CF9/Databases.RGDemo), for anyone to download.
You'll learn how to:
* Add your database to source control in under five minutes
* Create a CI Job to validate your database “build”
* Deploy database changes to your environments with a mouse click
* Set up database unit testing using tSQLt
* Avoid problems when implementing Database CI in the “real-world”
Ernest Hwang is a Principal Software Engineer at Practice Fusion in San Francisco. He uses Red Gate SQL Source Control, SQL Compare, SQL Data Compare, and SQL Test to automate Practice Fusion's Continuous Integration efforts and instrument database deployments.
Presenter: Ofer Mendelevitch of Hortonworks > Learn the benefits of big data for data scientists, and how Hadoop and HDInsight fit into the modern data architecture and enable data-driven products.
You'll learn:
* What data science actually means
* The term "data products"
* The benefits of using big data for data scientists
* How Hadoop helps data scientists work with big data
* About HDInsight, the big data platform from Microsoft and Hortonworks
SQL Server implements three different physical operators to perform joins. In this presentation you'll see how each of these operators work plus its advantages and challenges.
You'll learn:
* The logic behind the optimizer's decisions
* Which operator to use for various joins using (semi) real life examples
* How to avoid common join-related pitfalls
Ami Levin is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP and a Mentor with SolidQ. For the past 14 years, he has been consulting, teaching, writing, and speaking about SQL Server worldwide.
Levin’s areas of expertise are data modeling, database design, T-SQL and performance tuning.
Before moving to California, he led the Israeli SQL Server user group (ISUG) and moderated the Hebrew MSDN SQL Server support forum. Ami is a regular speaker at Microsoft Tech-Ed Israel, Dev Academy, and other SQL Server conferences. He blogs at SQL Server Tuning Blog.
Microsoft PowerPivot & Power View in Excel 2013Mark Ginnebaugh
PowerPivot is an add-in for Excel that empowers business users to create their own tabular data models. Power View is also available in the Excel 2013 client. It was first released as a server-based report authoring tool with SQL Server 2012 and is available in SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise.
You'll learn:
* How to work with the add-in in the Excel 2013 client
* How compelling interactive reports can be created quickly and easily
* The new PowerPivot features - including pie charts, maps, KPIs, hierarchies, drill down/drill up, and report styles
Peter Myers specializes in Microsoft Business Intelligence, and provides mentoring, technical training and course content authoring for SQL Server and Office. Peter has current SQL Server and MCT certifications, and has been a Microsoft MVP (Most Valued Professional) since 2007.
Microsoft Data Warehouse Business Intelligence Lifecycle - The Kimball ApproachMark Ginnebaugh
Data Warehouse - Business Intelligence Lifecycle Overview by Warren Thronthwaite
This slide deck describes the Kimball approach from the best-selling Data Warehouse Toolkit, 2nd Edition. It was presented to the Bay Area Microsoft Business Intelligence User Group in October 2012.
Starting with business requirements and project definition, the lifecycle branches out into three tracks: Technical, Data and Applications. You will learn:
* The major steps in the Lifecycle and what needs to happen in each one.
* Why business requirements are so important and how they influence all major decisions across the entire DW/BI system.
* Key tools for prioritizing business requirements and creating an enterprise information framework.
* How to break up a DW/BI system into doable increments that add real business value and can be completed in a reasonable time frame.
Fusion-io Memory Flash for Microsoft SQL Server 2012Mark Ginnebaugh
You've heard about Solid State Drives (SSDs), and might be using them now. To get dramatically improved IO performance, you need Flash Memory – storage that can be connected to your server’s Bus, and really maximize IO.
Fusion-io is an industry leader in this area, and Sumeet Bansal explains how to best employ this powerful technology. You'll learn:
* The many ways Flash can help your SQL Server performance, while at the same time lowering costs
* How you can use Flash optimally for your SQL Server deployment
* Easy, low risk ways to introduce ioMemory into SQL Server environments to instantly realize significant benefits.
* How to implement ioMemory optimally for the most pervasive configurations of SQL Server
Author: William Brown, Microsoft BI Specialist > This slide presentation covers Microsoft Data Mining functionality from the developer to the end user. In the past, data mining belonged to the deep technical specialist, but the current Microsoft stack allows anyone to create very powerful data mining models. Data mining allows users to find insights that are difficult or impossible to discover with traditional analysis.
You'll learn
* How to get started with Data mining
* The various data mining models and where they can be applied
* How to create models and surface the data to users
* How to use the new Excel Data mining add-in
This presentation lists upcoming events and summer 2012 virtual chapter meetings of the Professional Association for SQL Server. You will find meetings about data warehousing, Big Data, Master Data, Powershell, and virtualization.
Learn more about PASS at www.sqlpass.org
Business Intelligence Dashboard Design Best PracticesMark Ginnebaugh
Microsoft BI expert Dan Bulos spoke on Dashboard Design Best Practices to the Bay Area Microsoft Business Intelligence User Group.
This presentation shows techniques for displaying data in a dashboard for maximum impact. Dan also discusses various tools available in the Microsoft BI stack – Reporting Services, Excel, PerformancePoint and the new entry, Power View.
Take a look at Mobile BI on iPad, Windows Phone, SQL Server Reporting Services, and SharePoint with emphasis on data visualization best practices. Angel Abundez explains how design approaches change when launching mission-critical dashboards and reports on smaller screen sizes using touch-screen technology.
Presenter Angel Abundez is a Business Intelligence consultant with DesignMind in San Francisco. He focuses on Business Intelligence, Visualization, and improving business processes using Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint, and ASP.NET. He also works with the new visualizations coming out with PowerPivot, Power View, and SharePoint. Angel is Co-Lead of the Bay Area Business Intelligence User Group and is an active speaker in the SQL Server community.
SQL Server 2012 is the most crucial release of SQL Server to-date. In this slideshow, you'll see how SQL Server 2012 supports mission critical applications 24x7 and gives significant insight into business operations. Presented by Subhash Jawahrani of Microsoft to the Silicon Valley SQL Server User Group in March 2012.
You'll learn about:
* Mission Critical Apps
* New Business Intelligence features
* Improving business agility with Cloud computing
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Master Data ServicesMark Ginnebaugh
Mark Gschwind, VP of Business Intelligence at DesignMind, gave a presentation on Master Data Services (MDS) in SQL Server 2012. He began with an overview of master data and its importance for central curation, quality management, and ease of access for business users. He then reviewed the key capabilities of MDS, including modeling, validation, stewardship, and integration. Gschwind demonstrated creating an MDS model, using the new Excel interface, business rules, and exposing MDS data to a data warehouse. He concluded with tips for successful MDS implementations such as starting small, engaging business users, and using the development environment.
This slideshow is for IT professionals, data analysts, managers, and anyone looking to drive more productivity from Excel. You will learn how you can effectively leverage the add-ins with your own data and analysis requirements.
One of the pillars of the SQL Server 2008 R2 release is Managed Self-Service BI.
Peter Myers of SolidQ will introduce:
* SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel
* SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint
The SQL Server PowerPivot for Excel add-in is a key offering in this pillar, and delivers an entirely new analytic experience to Excel 2010. This add-in allows analysts to load and prepare large volumes of data from various sources to create a multidimensional model. The model can be enriched with sophisticated calculations. Then the model can then be used as the source for PivotTable and PivotChart reports.
With the SQL Server PowerPivot for SharePoint add-in, the Excel workbooks that host the PowerPivot model can be cataloged in SharePoint and exposed as a data source for other Excel and Reporting Services reports. These SharePoint hosted models can then be managed by IT with scheduled data refreshes from the originating data stores.
Creator: Joel Champagne, President of CodeX Enterprises
This presentation covers various issues associated with SQL unit testing. We’ll look at end solutions in demo form using Visual Studio 2010 and other third party tools.
You'll learn:
* The value of pursuing SQL testing, early and continually in the development cycle
* Capabilities in Visual Studio 2010 to support SQL unit testing
* Capabilities in other tools to support SQL unit testing
Microsoft SQL Server - How to Collaboratively Manage Excel DataMark Ginnebaugh
How to Collaboratively Manage Excel-Based Process Data in SQL Server
Your organization probably uses Excel for a variety of business processes including budgeting, sales revenue forecasting, product demand planning, and project management.
You'll learn how to set up and manage multi-user collaborative processes using Excel as the data form and SQL Server as the data store and process engine.
You'll learn:
* How to enable cell-level collaboration between multiple users using Excel and SQL Server.
* How to effectively integrate desktop Excel-based process data with enterprise applications.
* How to mitigate the limitations normally associated with Excel-to-database connections including record locking (check-in/out), conflict management, and change management and versioning.
Sumeet Bansal of Fusion-io defines a "Dream Database Architecture. You'll Learn:
* If Flash Storage is right for your organization
* How to set up for High Availability
* What's coming next in Solid State Storage
Lastly, you'll hear how software manufacturers are responding to the distributed architecture trend, including validation from leaders such as Microsoft and Oracle.
Microsoft Business Intelligence Performance Management Dan Bulos_2011Mark Ginnebaugh
Dan Bulos, President of Symmetry Corporation discusses how to use Analysis Services to create a robust dashboard and scorecard application.
You Will Learn:
* Why a PM application is unique and how to design a solution
* How to create a “Spine” of metrics and KPIs to integrate data and targets into a coherent data design
* About different scoring methodologies
* How to create a KPI scoring engine within SSAS
* How to explain performance using visualizations
Microsoft SQL Server Filtered Indexes & Sparse Columns Feb 2011Mark Ginnebaugh
Speaker: Don Vilen, Chief Scientist, Buysight & former Microsoft SQL Server Team Member
This session covers the basics of Filtered Indexes and Sparse Columns, and then dives into the areas where they work well—and not so well—both together and separately. Don will show demos that show how they work and when they work well.
SQL Server Managing Test Data & Stress Testing January 2011Mark Ginnebaugh
A quick look at some of the available functionality for SQL Server developers who have access to Visual Studio 2010 and SQL-Hero.
With Visual Studio 2010 Premium (and Professional to a degree) delivering similar capabilities to what was available in VS 2008 Database Pro Edition, the ability to generate a mass amount of sample data for your database has only gotten more accessible with time.
Realizing that other tools exist in this space and not all SQL developers use Visual Studio, we’ll also take a look at the third party data generation facility available in SQL-Hero, seeing how we can create thousands (or millions!) of records very quickly using a powerful rules engine, plus automate this process to support continuous integration strategies.
Presenter: Dean Richards of Confio Software
If you're a developer or DBA, this presentation will outline a method for determining the best execution plan for a query every time by utilizing SQL Diagramming techniques.
Whether you're a beginner or expert, this approach will save you countless hours tuning a query.
You Will Learn:
* SQL Tuning Methodology
* Response Time Tuning Practices
* How to use SQL Diagramming techniques to tune SQL statements
* How to read executions plans
Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdfUiPathCommunity
👉 Check out our full 'Africa Series - Automation Student Developers (EN)' page to register for the full program:
https://bit.ly/Automation_Student_Kickstart
In this session, we shall introduce you to the world of automation, the UiPath Platform, and guide you on how to install and setup UiPath Studio on your Windows PC.
📕 Detailed agenda:
What is RPA? Benefits of RPA?
RPA Applications
The UiPath End-to-End Automation Platform
UiPath Studio CE Installation and Setup
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Introduction to Automation
UiPath Business Automation Platform
Explore automation development with UiPath Studio
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What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
ScyllaDB is making a major architecture shift. We’re moving from vNode replication to tablets – fragments of tables that are distributed independently, enabling dynamic data distribution and extreme elasticity. In this keynote, ScyllaDB co-founder and CTO Avi Kivity explains the reason for this shift, provides a look at the implementation and roadmap, and shares how this shift benefits ScyllaDB users.
This talk will cover ScyllaDB Architecture from the cluster-level view and zoom in on data distribution and internal node architecture. In the process, we will learn the secret sauce used to get ScyllaDB's high availability and superior performance. We will also touch on the upcoming changes to ScyllaDB architecture, moving to strongly consistent metadata and tablets.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
High performance Serverless Java on AWS- GoTo Amsterdam 2024Vadym Kazulkin
Java is for many years one of the most popular programming languages, but it used to have hard times in the Serverless community. Java is known for its high cold start times and high memory footprint, comparing to other programming languages like Node.js and Python. In this talk I'll look at the general best practices and techniques we can use to decrease memory consumption, cold start times for Java Serverless development on AWS including GraalVM (Native Image) and AWS own offering SnapStart based on Firecracker microVM snapshot and restore and CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) runtime hooks. I'll also provide a lot of benchmarking on Lambda functions trying out various deployment package sizes, Lambda memory settings, Java compilation options and HTTP (a)synchronous clients and measure their impact on cold and warm start times.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during MigrationMydbops
Mydbops Opensource Database Meetup 16
Topic: Must-Know PostgreSQL Extensions for Developers and DBAs During Migration
Speaker: Deepak Mahto, Founder of DataCloudGaze Consulting
Date & Time: 8th June | 10 AM - 1 PM IST
Venue: Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore
Abstract: Discover how PostgreSQL extensions can be your secret weapon! This talk explores how key extensions enhance database capabilities and streamline the migration process for users moving from other relational databases like Oracle.
Key Takeaways:
* Learn about crucial extensions like oracle_fdw, pgtt, and pg_audit that ease migration complexities.
* Gain valuable strategies for implementing these extensions in PostgreSQL to achieve license freedom.
* Discover how these key extensions can empower both developers and DBAs during the migration process.
* Don't miss this chance to gain practical knowledge from an industry expert and stay updated on the latest open-source database trends.
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For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
Introduction of Cybersecurity with OSS at Code Europe 2024Hiroshi SHIBATA
I develop the Ruby programming language, RubyGems, and Bundler, which are package managers for Ruby. Today, I will introduce how to enhance the security of your application using open-source software (OSS) examples from Ruby and RubyGems.
The first topic is CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). I have published CVEs many times. But what exactly is a CVE? I'll provide a basic understanding of CVEs and explain how to detect and handle vulnerabilities in OSS.
Next, let's discuss package managers. Package managers play a critical role in the OSS ecosystem. I'll explain how to manage library dependencies in your application.
I'll share insights into how the Ruby and RubyGems core team works to keep our ecosystem safe. By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how to safeguard your code.
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...DanBrown980551
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Hallie Cramer, Google
-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
This webinar will delve into the motivations behind establishing LF Energy’s Carbon Data Specification Consortium. It will provide an overview of the draft specifications and the ongoing progress made by the respective working groups.
Three primary specifications will be discussed:
-Discovery and client registration, emphasizing transparent processes and secure and private access
-Customer data, centering around customer tariffs, bills, energy usage, and full consumption disclosure
-Power systems data, focusing on grid data, inclusive of transmission and distribution networks, generation, intergrid power flows, and market settlement data
2. San Francisco SQL Server User Group
Tonight’s Agenda May 13, 2009
6:30 – 7:00 pm Food and networking
7:00 – 7:05 pm Introductions
7:05 – 8:35 pm Joel Champagne, Magenic
8:35 – 9:00 pm Door prize + Q&A
Mark Ginnebaugh
User Group Leader: Mark Ginnebaugh
3. San Francisco – 2009 Schedule
June 10
Christian Wade EMC
Currency Conversion
www.bayareasql.org
July 8
Peter Myers Solid Quality Mentors
Data Mining
August 12
Elizabeth Diamond, DesignMind
Architecting a Data Warehouse
4. Tonight’s Speaker
Joel Champagne
Principal Consultant at Magenic
Data modeling
BI
Application
architecture
.NET development
Topic: SQL 2008: Programmability Features
and Productivity Tools
5. Agenda
• Select SQL Server 2008 Features
– MERGE / Table-valued parameters
– Geography UDT’s
– SSRS – Report Builder 2.0
• SQL Server 3rd Party Tools (SQL-Hero)
– History (DDL & DML)
– Notifications
– Code / application generation
• Q&A
6. Geography Data Type Example
http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/Virtual
Earth/SQL2008Spatialafirstimpression.aspx
John O’Brien
7. SQL 2008 Feature Pack
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.as
px?FamilyId=089A9DAD-E2DF-43E9-9CD8-
C06320520B40&displaylang=en
Report Builder (Now standalone instead of in
the Feature Pack)
CLR Types (Geo)
Data mining addins (Office)
Redistributables
Etc.
8. SQL-Hero
• R&D project, coming mainstream
– 300,000+ lines of code
– A “platform” as much as a “product”
• Pre-release available
– Version 0.9: Free, no expiry, same version you’re
seeing today
– www.codexframework.com
– Keep checking back – new releases available
regularly
– Tell your friends!
– Download:
http://www.codexframework.com/sqlhero/downloads.a
spx
• Email:admin@codexframework.com