Christmas BINGO

Here is something to keep you amused whilst reading those technical articles over Christmas.

How many articles do you have to read to say BINGO?

T: @victoria_holt

SQLBits 2020

SQLBits 2020 is between 31st March – 4th April at the ExCel Centre, London. This year it is 5 days. Registration is open.

The agenda is:

Tuesday 31st March: Full day training (track registration mandatory)

Wednesday 1st April: Full day training (track registration mandatory)

Thursday 2nd April: Multiple 50 minute sessions (choose agenda on the day)

Friday 3rd April: Multiple 50 minute sessions (choose agenda on the day)

Saturday 4th April: FREE - Multiple 50 minute sessions (choose agenda on the day)

The training days have been announced. 

Tuesday 31 March 2020

A Day Full of Azure Data Factory with Cathrine Wilhelmsen

Mastering Index Tuning with Brent Ozar

Demystifying Design Principles and Building Impactful Report with Reid Havens

SQL Server Performance Tuning Real-World Scenarios with Pinal Dave

Performance Troubleshooting using Waits and Latches with Paul Randal

SQL Server Cloud Fundamentals with Allan Hirt

A to Z Azure Cosmos DB with Hasan Savran

Migrating & Running SQL Server on Azure VMs with Niko Neugebauer

Kubernetes: From Bare Metal to SQL Server Big Data Clusters with Chris Adkin and Buck Woody

Building a Modern Data Warehouse in Azure with Simon D'Morias

Getting started with Azure Machine Learning with Nico Jacobs and Aniek Sies

Further your Power BI development skills with Ásgeir Gunnarsson and Bent Nissen Pedersen

Wednesday 1 April 2020

Advanced T-SQL Querying and Query Tuning with Itzik Ben-Gan

Migrating a Legacy SQL Database to Azure with Ike Ellis

Open Hack: From ingestion to consumption with Stijn Wynants, Steve Verschaeve and Rick Meijvogel

Improve performance with DAX and Power BI with Alberto Ferrari

Succeed with DevOps as a DBA with Grant Fritchey

Performance Tuning with Query Store in SQL Server and Azure with Erin Stellato

Machine Learning In Production: Azure, Docker, Kubernetes with Terry McCann

SQL Server data security from the bottom up with Stuart Moore

From Zero to Azure Data Factory with Andy Leonard

Enterprise analytics with SQL Server and in Azure with Tomaz Kastrun

Statistics4Performance: Internals, Analysis, Problem Solving with Kimberly L. Tripp

Azure HDInsight Learning Path

Microsoft Learn enables you to gain hands on learning for different products. Azure HDInsight is one of those such courses. The course entitled  Building Open Source Software (OSS) Analytical Solutions with Azure HDInsight has various modules:

• Introduction to the Open source Analytics Offering
• Choose the correct HDInsight Configuration to build open source analytical solutions
• Creating and configuring a HDInsight cluster
• Perform Zero ETL analytics with HDInsight Interactive Query

There is such a wealth of information on the site that is worth exploring including learning paths, certification and docs. It is great to be able to learn at your own pace.