Meet the PG: Power BI

Navigating Microsoft Fabric - Choosing the Right Workload for Your Needs

A session to help you choose the right workload for your business needs and to understand current limitations.

Analytics at the speed of Direct Lake

Advanced dive into the exciting new storage mode for Semantic Models.

The Most Powerful Azure Service You’ve Never Heard Of

Join Patrick Leblanc from the Power BI CAT team, Josh Luedeman, and Bradley Ball from the Azure FastTrack PG as we talk about the most powerful Azure Service you’ve never heard of. If only you knew the name of the service. Come to this session, and you’ll never forget it!

The Path to Success with Power BI: Best Practices

Whether you are just getting started with Power BI, or have been around for a while, Adam and Patrick will walk you through the best practices that will get you going in the right direction with Power BI!

Power BI + Azure Synapse Analytics: Beginning your journey

Start your journey using Power BI and Azure Synapse Analytics. From the options available to how to leverage effectively, this will position you well to get the most out of your data.

Keeping your data fresh in Power BI

In this session you will learn how to keep you data up to date i Power BI.

Empowering every individual with Power BI

Data and insights are only valuable when you can collaborate and take action on them, and those insights need to meet the business where they spend their time. The Power BI team are going to do this through Teams and SharePoint, and in productivity apps like Office, and in this session we’ll outline the plans and roadmap for this.

Getting Intimate with the Power BI Desktop

During this all-demo session, we will dig deep into some of the most captivating, but less publicized features of the desktop.

Enable Hybrid Data access with the On-premises Data Gateway

Hybrid data landscapes are common and the on-premises data gateway enables connecting to your on-premises data sources from online services (like Power BI, PowerApps, Microsoft Flow and Logic Apps) without the need to move your data to the cloud. Come to this session to see the latest gateway features and best practices related to setup and configuration along with troubleshooting tips and tricks, investigate bottlenecks and resolve your common gateway errors.

Power BI Report Server: A Deep Dive

So, you think you know everything you need to know about the Power BI Report Server because you use traditional SQL Server Reporting Services. Well, don’t believe it!

Power BI: Adam and Patrick Unplugged

Microsoft's Patrick and Adam answer a lot of questions on Power BI, SSAS and other tech. Those questions result in videos on their YouTube channel. In this session they are going to show a few. Don’t miss out, there is a little something for everyone.

Navigating Microsoft Fabric - Choosing the Right Workload for Your Needs

A session to help you choose the right workload for your business needs and to understand current limitations.

The Path to Success with Power BI: Best Practices

Whether you are just getting started with Power BI, or have been around for a while, Adam and Patrick will walk you through the best practices that will get you going in the right direction with Power BI!

Power BI + Azure Synapse Analytics: Beginning your journey

Start your journey using Power BI and Azure Synapse Analytics. From the options available to how to leverage effectively, this will position you well to get the most out of your data.

Getting Intimate with the Power BI Desktop

During this all-demo session, we will dig deep into some of the most captivating, but less publicized features of the desktop.

Power BI Report Server: A Deep Dive

So, you think you know everything you need to know about the Power BI Report Server because you use traditional SQL Server Reporting Services. Well, don’t believe it!

Power BI: Adam and Patrick Unplugged

Microsoft's Patrick and Adam answer a lot of questions on Power BI, SSAS and other tech. Those questions result in videos on their YouTube channel. In this session they are going to show a few. Don’t miss out, there is a little something for everyone.

Using a gateway to leverage on-premises data in Power BI

I look at how you can take advantage of an on-premises gateway to make use of local data when creating reports and dashboards for Power BI. This will start with Power BI Desktop, and the choices you have for SQL Server and Analysis Services.

Nose-Dive Narratives: Slide Karaoke 2024

Get ready to wrap up a serious day of learning with a dash of humor, spontaneity, and friendly competition! SQLBits presents "Slide Karaoke" where SQLBits speakers reveal their hidden talents while vying for bragging rights. This session promises to be a one-of-a-kind experience that will leave you in stitches and awe, and the speakers scrambling for their non-existent notes!

Asking questions to get meaningful answers

By making sure we're supplying the other party with the compact information they need, and making sure we're "forcing" them to give a decent answer, there's a lot more information we can receive. By getting the information we need, we'll be able to proceed quicker, and getting to results faster.

Setting yourself up for success when submitting to present

During this session we'll cover how you find those elusive speaking opportunities and how you can make the most of it with just a few simple things to keep in mind. Most importantly, what can you do to help understand organizers or selection committees why exactly your session would be a good fit for them, and why you think it would be a good fit for their audience.

Star Schema ALL the things! But why?

Come along in this journey from source to model to report using a practical mindset, thinking about the design decisions and ramifications along the way. At the core of the session lies the message to think about best practices, with the added step to test, assess, and benchmark what exactly they do for you.

You're a Power BI Admin? Let's get your threads aligned for Fabric!

This session will focus on the life of a Power BI Admin moving over to the extended Fabric realm, and keeping their things in check. We'll look at the familiar topics of capacity and workspace management, and how they align with the new workloads that have been introduced. We'll notice there's a very large overlap, as Fabric has been built on the foundations of Power BI.

How to write a Session Abstract, to get chosen to speak

Writing an abstract is hard, especially for a session you'll probably only be presenting a few months down the road. But have you considered consciously on the words you're writing in there, and what kind of expectations they set to other parties? Having a balanced abstract will help set the expectations for your presentation correctly, before it actually starts. Clearly outlining the goals helps all parties involved, most importantly yourself!

Troubleshooting Power BI Reports

Starting off with the new Performance Analyzer Pane, we'll demonstrate how you can pinpoint bottlenecks in your report, and take actions on these insights. With the myriad of root causes that are out there, an elimination approach might suit us very well. Some of the main causes will be explained, and we'll get you going on how you can fix it for yourselves.

Asking questions to get meaningful answers

Asking questions is a very powerful tool, but can be bothersome to wield. By making sure we're supplying the other party with the compact information they need, and making sure we're "forcing" them to give a decent answer, there's a lot more information we can receive. By getting the information we need, we'll be able to proceed quicker, and getting to results faster.

Power BI dataflows? Why you need to implement it!

During this session, the core concepts of Power BI Dataflows will be explained, and we'll discuss how Power BI Dataflows could alleviate some of the specific problems you might be experiencing in your current architecture.

Troubleshooting Power BI Report Performance

Starting off with the new Performance Analyzer Pane, we'll demonstrate how you can pinpoint bottlenecks in your Power BI reports, and take actions on these insights.