I’m delighted to announce I’ll be giving a talk at Techorama 2019. It’s one of the best events I’ve ever been to and I’ll be in the good company of Grant Fritchey, Jen Stirrup, Pinal Dave and Brent Ozar (+ many others)! That’s right, the line-up for the data platform is amazing, so be sure […]
Category: Events
Speaking at DataGrillen 2019
I’m delighted to announce I’m selected to speak at the 2019 edition of SQLGrillen DataGrillen. This is a German conference with the catchy tagline “Data, beer und Bratwurst”. I will be talking about the cloud datawarehouse Snowflake (hosted on Azure). The abstract: The era of cloud data warehousing has finally begun. Gone are the days […]
Community Engagements Second Half of 2018 – It’s all about Biml
I have a couple of community engagements coming up in the second half of 2018 and I’d like to share an overview with you. Some might remember my Biml meetup session at the start of this year. Basically I turned this session into two talks: an introduction to Biml and a more advanced talk about […]
Techorama 2018 Session Materials
Techorama 2018 is over, sadly enough. It was a great conference: lots of awesome speakers and sessions and very nicely organized. Big thanks to the organizers, sponsors and attendees of course. My session on data modeling in self-service BI went really well (but I had some time left at the end). I promised to share […]
Data Modeling for Self-Service BI @ Techorama 2018
I’m delighted to announce I’ll be giving a session about data modeling in a self-service BI environment at Techorama 2018 (the Internet is divided on the correct spelling: modelling or modeling. Apparently it depends on which side of the pond you’re on). Techorama is one of the biggest Microsoft-oriented tech events in Europe (it takes […]
Session Materials – Biml DataMinds
All of the materials for my Biml session for DataMinds.be can be downloaded from Github: the slidedeck (it’s only 12MB :)) a .sql file with the DDL statements to create objects (schema, tables, views, stored procs, functions) in a database called Biml (which you have to create yourself). Along with some metadata in those tables. […]
DataMinds.be Meetup – Biml
First blog post of the year and I’d like to take the opportunity to wish everyone the best, professionally and otherwise. And what better way to start the new year with a user group session? On Thursday 25th of January 2018 I will be giving an evening session for dataminds.be, formerly known as SQLUG.be aka […]
dataMinds Connect 2017 (win a ticket!)
Within two weeks the wait is over: the first edition of dataMinds Connect! For those of you wondering what I’m talking about, dataMinds Connect is the new name of the SQL Server Days (the biggest Microsoft Data Platform event in the Benelux). I’ve been a regular speaker at the SQL Server Days for quite some […]
Webinar – Supercharge Your SQL Server Data Warehouse with Columnstore Indexes
I have the pleasure to announce I’ll deliver a webcast for MSSQLTips.com at the August 24th of 2017. The webinar will be an introduction to columnstore indexes, which have gained quite some importance since you can now use them in Standard Edition of SQL Server 2016 SP1 or higher. Title: Supercharge Your SQL Server Data Warehouse […]
PASS BA Marathon – Spring Edition Q&A
The PASS BA Marathon Spring Edition was quite a success. A lot of people tuned in (over 400), the webinar went great (lots of great feedback!) and there were a lot of interesting questions. You can find the recording here. Since I didn’t have the time to answer all questions, I’ll tackle them in this […]