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PASS Summit 2015 Keynote 1

And the PASS Summit 2015 Starts with the Keynote Good crowd turnout for this summit Blogger table Let’s start then This will be live blog of Pass Keynote day 1, so watch here; 8:21: Narrator of promotion video:  40 zeta bytes of data will be created by 2020 8:22: PASS President Thomas LaRock on stage Read more about PASS Summit 2015 Keynote 1[…]

A Glance At My Speaking Life (In a Year)

This year was an active year in my speaking life, In almost a year I’ve done below speakings: One SQL Rally Session (Denmark, Nordic) One Microsoft Ignite (New Zealand) Five SQL Saturdays (Austria, USA, New Zealand, Australia) Bunch of User Group and Codecamp speakings I started my peaking life with talking about MS data mining Read more about A Glance At My Speaking Life (In a Year)[…]

SQL Saturday Auckland #456 In Photos

If you have been in Auckland for Saturday 3rd of October and you are a Data Geek you should have been attended or at least heard about our SQL Saturday event. SQL Saturday Auckland #456 has been held in Auckland University of Technology (AUT) yesterday 3rd of October with good turnout of audience and handful Read more about SQL Saturday Auckland #456 In Photos[…]

How to Do Power BI Mapping With Latitude and Longitude Only

You may have seen many videos or blog posts so far that Power BI Desktop showed the data on the map visualization based on address, suburb, city, state, and country. Fortunately Bing Map helps a lot to search the point on the map based on address fields. However sometimes you don’t have address fields, actually Read more about How to Do Power BI Mapping With Latitude and Longitude Only[…]

Definitive Guide to Power BI Personal Gateway

If you’ve followed my Power BI from Rookie to Rockstar book so far, you know that Power BI can reach on-premises data sources as well as cloud based. With Power BI Desktop you simply connect to on-premises data stores, however when the report published into Power BI website there should be a bus connection between Read more about Definitive Guide to Power BI Personal Gateway[…]

Power BI Get Data: From Azure SQL Database

Power BI and Power Query can connect to files such as Excel, CSV, text files and on-premises databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL. Power BI can connect to many data sources on cloud such as Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Data Warehouse and etc. In this part you will learn how to connect from Read more about Power BI Get Data: From Azure SQL Database[…]

SSIS 2016; What’s New in CTP 2.3

SQL Server 2016 is under a heavy improvement plan, The latest CTP version (Community Test Preview) of it is 2.3 which released as preview three days ago. CTP 2.3 has some new features across all components of SQL Server, such as SSRS, SSAS, SSIS, MDS and etc. Previously I wrote about some new changes in Read more about SSIS 2016; What’s New in CTP 2.3[…]

Power BI Get Data From Excel: Everything You Need to Know

In Previous section you learned about Power Query through an example of data mash-up of movies. Also prior than that you’ve learned about Power BI and its components in Power BI online book from rookie to rockstar. In this section I would like to start exploration of different data sources in Power BI, and I Read more about Power BI Get Data From Excel: Everything You Need to Know[…]

Get Started with Power Query: Movies Data Mash-Up

As another section of the Power BI online book: from Rookie to Rockstar, I would like to get start working with Power Query. From my point of view learning through an example is the best way to learn new technology. For this post I have decided to use movie’s data to be mashed up. I Read more about Get Started with Power Query: Movies Data Mash-Up[…]

Power BI Mission Possible; Webinar Q&A, Recording, and Materials

In this post you will find materials for the Power BI Mission Possible! session that I speak today in PASS BA Virtual Chapter. Thanks to all attendees of my session in PASS Business Analytics Virtual Chapter today. Unfortunately I hadn’t chance to respond all questions, So here in this blog post I write answers to Read more about Power BI Mission Possible; Webinar Q&A, Recording, and Materials[…]