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Orlando
November 12-17, 2017
Royal Pacific Resort at Universal, Orlando, FL
For Business Intelligence
Track Key:
SQL Server Administration and Maintenance
Full Day Hands-On Labs
Security
SQL Server Performance Tuning and Optimization
Workshops
The Real Cloud
BI, Big Data, Data Analytics, and Data Visualization
Keynotes, General Sessions & Panels
IT Soft Skills
Fast Focus Sessions
Server / Datacenter
SQL Server for Developers
SQL Server in the Cloud
Infrastructure
DevOps
Modern App Development
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Sunday, November 12, 2017
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9:00am - 6:00pm
Full Day Hands-On Lab: Experience New SQL Server Availability Options
Allan Hirt
9:00am - 6:00pm
Full Day Hands-On Lab: Ethical Hacking with Kali Linux
Mike Danseglio
Avril Salter
Monday, November 13, 2017
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8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: The Secret Toolbox for Performance Tuning and Optimizing Queries
Pinal Dave
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: Learn the latest and Greatest Updates to the Azure Platform IaaS and PaaS Services
Peter De Tender
8:30am - 5:30pm
Workshop: Windows Security - How I Do It!
Sami Laiho
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
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9:15am - 10:30am
Business Intelligence/Analytics in SQL Server 2016
Thomas LeBlanc
9:15am - 10:30am
Learn What It Takes to Build a Cockpit Alike View for Monitoring all of Your Azure Resources
Peter De Tender
11:00am - 12:00pm
Live! 360 Keynote: Lessons Learned Doing DevOps at Microsoft at Scale
Buck Hodges
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Loading a Data Warehouse Using SSIS
Tim Mitchell
1:30pm - 2:45pm
Turbo Boost - SQL Tricks Everybody MUST Know
Pinal Dave
3:15pm - 4:30pm
SQL Server Analysis Service: Cube Versus Tabular
Thomas LeBlanc
3:15pm - 4:30pm
Advanced SSIS Package Authoring with Biml
Tim Mitchell
3:15pm - 4:30pm
Hardware, Camtasia, and a Storyline: Creating Your Own User Training
Greg Shields
4:40pm - 5:00pm
Fast Focus: Using Polybase to Analyze Data from Other Data Sources, Including Hadoop Data
Ginger Grant
4:40pm - 5:00pm
Fast Focus: Preparing for the Windows Server 2016 MCSA - The Expert Tips
Greg Shields
5:10pm - 5:30pm
Fast Focus: Introduction to Data Science with Azure ML
Bradley Ball
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
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8:00am - 9:15am
Power BI: What Have You Done for Me Lately?
Andrew Brust
8:00am - 9:15am
Bypass Every Security Technology with Social Hacking: A Beginner's Toolkit
Dale Meredith
11:30am - 12:30pm
Live! 360 Panel: Industry Trends, Technology, and Your Career
Martin Leifker
Francois Charette
Matt Lockhart
Rockford Lhotka
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Big Data Technologies: What, Where and How to Run Them on Azure
Andrew Brust
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Introduction to R
Bradley Ball
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Data Lake Analytics with U-SQL
Ginger Grant
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Big Data Smorgasbord with R in Hadoop and SQL Server
Jen Stirrup
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Controlling Your Azure Spend
Timothy Warner
Thursday, November 16, 2017
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8:00am - 9:15am
Introduction to Azure Data Factory
Tim Mitchell
8:00am - 9:15am
Fully Integrated Azure Resource Manager Deployments
Neil Peterson
8:00am - 9:15am
Keep Up with NOW! Automate Rebuilding Your (Home) Lab On Steroids
Sven van Rijen
9:30am - 10:45am
Automating Azure with PowerShell - Beyond the Azure PowerShell Module
Neil Peterson
9:30am - 10:45am
Git and GitHub Jump Start
Timothy Warner
11:00am - 12:00pm
SQL Server Live! Panel: In with The New, And The Old Too: The Database New World Order
Ginger Grant
Thomas LaRock
Leonard Lobel
Karen Lopez
Jen Stirrup
Andrew Brust
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Lighting Up Big Data Analytics with Apache Spark in Azure
Jen Stirrup
1:00pm - 2:15pm
PowerShell Scripting Secrets
Jeffery Hicks
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Using All That Data: Power BI to the Rescue
Scott Diehl
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Using SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups
Denny Cherry
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Operational Analytics in SQL Server 2016
Edwin Sarmiento
2:30pm - 3:45pm
Starting Your Own Gig: Three Steps to Launching Your Own Business
Nick Cavalancia
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Next? SQL Server Live Networking Event
Andrew Brust
Thomas LaRock
Karen Lopez
Bradley Ball
Denny Cherry
Friday, November 17, 2017
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8:00am - 5:00pm
Workshop: Big Data, BI, and Analytics on The Microsoft Stack
Andrew Brust