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One of the conferences that I enjoy speaking at each year is the Data Science Summit that comes out of Warsaw. Once again, the speaker lineup looks excellent, and there are early bird discounts available now. I’m always amazed at how low cost these Eastern European conferences are. https://dssconf.pl/user.html?lang=en#!/login

2023-11-02

I was pleased to see Reza Rad’s latest book Pro Power BI Architecture: Development, Deployment, Sharing, and Security for Microsoft Power BI Solutions: Rad, Reza: 9781484295373: Amazon.com: Books now out the door. Reza is an old friend, fellow Data Platform MVP, and fellow member of the Microsoft Regional Director program. I was pleased to have been a technical reviewer for this book, and I hope that, along with the other reviewers, we have improved what was already a good book.

2023-08-28

I had the great pleasure to get to spend time today, talking with Josh Caplan about OneLake. Josh Caplan serves as a Principal Group Product Manager at Microsoft, where he’s now leading product management for Microsoft OneLake. He has a strong background in managing products like Power BI, SQL Server Analysis Servers, and Azure Analysis Services. Before his current role, Josh contributed to enhancing developer tools for Power BI and worked with Bing to harness its vast data resources.

2023-08-10

I’ve mentioned in a previous post how important I think Microsoft Fabric is going to be. So, in addition to our existing SQL Down Under, and Cosmos Down Under podcasts, we have a brand new podcast called Fabric Down Under. In the preview for Microsoft Fabric, one of the key participants from the product group has been Pawel Potasinski. I’ve known Pawel for many years and he’s been the driving force behind many important things.

2023-05-24

We have so many great tech friends in Poland. I was pleased to see they are running the MS Tech Summit, and pleased to be speaking at it. Looks like a great set of sessions : https://mstechsummit.pl/en/ They tell me there are more than 100 sessions spread over 8 tracks. Not in Poland? Not a problem. It’s running in-person and online, and with video on demand. The early bird discount is still available but about to end.

2023-04-28

Over the last year, I’ve come to know Alex Kolokolov more, through involvement with his data visualization challenges. I was really pleased to see he’d written his first book Make Your Data Speak (Creating Actionable Data through Excel For Non-Technical Professionals). Things I Liked I really liked the conversational style of the book. It’s all structured around an approach of “Let’s see how this happens by example”. The tone was really refreshing and should be good to hold people’s interest.

2023-03-12

I’m always excited when I can get involved in conferences with our Polish friends. Coming up very soon is the Data Science Summit 2022: https://dssconf.pl/en/ For this summit, I’ll be presenting a quick (around 40 minutes) session highlighting what’s changed in T-SQL for SQL Server 2022. I’m always so glad to see T-SQL enhancements in SQL Server and SQL Server 2022 has more than what we’ve seen in other recent versions.

2022-11-06

It’s been a while coming, but my latest book is now out. Implementing Power BI in the Enterprise is now available in both paperback and eBook. The eBook versions are available in all Amazon stores, and also through most book distributors through Ingram Spark distribution. I’ve had a few people ask about DRM-free ePub and PDF versions. While the Kindle version on Amazon is their normal DRM setup, you can purchase the DRM free version directly from us here:

2021-06-18

One of my favourite conferences each year is SQL Day. It’s run by an enthusiastic group from Poland, and when I’ve attended in person, I loved it. This year it’s virtual, and the upside of that, is you can attend from anywhere. As part of the conference, I’m running a pre-con workshop. It’s a low cost one day course on How I Implement Power BI in Enterprises. You’ll find info on it here.

2021-04-16

If you haven’t already heard, there’s a global Power BI summit coming up. It’s 19th to 23rd April and details are here: https://globalpowerbisummit.com/ I’m presenting a session “Enterprise Power BI: Do I still need a data warehouse?” It’s being replayed across different time zones and each time though, I’ll be there for a live Q&A. Would love to see you there.

2021-02-18