The schedule for the last SQL Saturday this year in Europe is alive. Hurry up with registrations, two months before the even we are already 70% full! Also don’t forget our great pre-conference seminars: DevOps and SQL Server - Expert Advice for Teams without a DBA, presented by William Durkin and André Kamman; and Managing BI Operations, ...

It’s not my habit to announce my future presentations on this blog. But I sometimes make exceptions to this rule, and today is a good day for such an exception. Especially since I have been allowed to offer some money off for one of my upcoming presentations. I’ll fly to Copenhagen tomorrow, for SQL Saturday Demark, where I will present two ...

The summer is almost over and while we are working on new content (books and other for www.sqlbi.com), I already have the plans for this Autumn’s conferences. Microsoft Ignite 2016 – September 26-30, Atlanta, GA See what’s new in SQL Server Analysis Services 2016 Tabular Models Review DirectQuery in SSAS 2016, best practices and ...

I am closing my plan for the second semester of this year. Before listing the events I plan to attend, just a quick comment. I had conversation about some specific events and why don’t I visit them many times, especially about the events in vicinity. My answer is pretty simple. I try to plan my events for six months in advance. My schedule for the ...

So we are back again The leading event dedicated to Microsoft SQL Server in Slovenia will take place on Saturday, 10th December 2016, at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science of the University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 113, Ljubljana (http://www.fri.uni-lj.si/en/about/how_to_reach_us/). As always, this is an English-only event. We don’t ...

I got some questions about virtual machine / notebook setup for my Business Intelligence in SQL Server 2016 DevWeek post-conference workshop. I am writing this blog because I want to spread this information as quickly as possible. There will be no labs during the seminar, no time for this. However, I will make all of the code available. ...

In a couple of weeks, I will move to Australia for 3 weeks, visiting Melbourne and Sydney for a number of events and training. This is the list of topics in public events you can attend (with link to registration pages – remember that SQL Saturday conferences are free events, but you still have to register first!): UPDATE 2016-02-08 - added a ...

Our third SQL Saturday in Ljubljana is over. Two weeks seems to be enough time to sleep over and see things a bit from a distance. Without any further delays, I can declare that it is clear that the event was a pure success Let me start with the numbers, comparing total number of people, including speakers, sponsors, attendees, and organizers, ...

I don’t usually blog about news, unless there is a relevant impact on future directions. Last week we have seen a huge number of announcements for Power BI (Custom Visuals now available to anyone through a gallery online, you can import them in also in Power BI Desktop, and a number of improvements in Power BI Service and a new version of the ...

This is one of the few non-technical posts of this blog. Just skip it if you want to quickly come back to 100% BI related topics. Last Saturday we run the SQL Saturday 454 in Turin. I was part of the organization, and actually I was one of the promoters for this event, running on the same city just a few months after SQL Saturday 400. The reason ...