
Brian Knight
Owner of Pragmatic Works, Writer and Business Applications MVP
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Brian Knight, Business Applications MVP, MCITP, MCDBA, is the owner and founder of Pragmatic Works. He has been a serial entrepreneur, starting up other companies in the past like SQLServerCentral.com. He runs the local SQL Server users group in Jacksonville (JSSUG). Brian is a contributing columnist at several technical magazines and does regular webcasts at PragmaticWorks.com. He is the author of more than a fifteen SQL Server books. Brian has spoken at conferences like PASS, SQL Connections and TechEd and many Code Camps. His blog can be found at https://www.pragmaticworks.com
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Real World Lessons from Starting a Company
While starting Pragmatic Works and other companies, Brian (as with others) made a lot of naïve mistakes. In this session, he will share with you the pitfalls he found when starting a business and managing a team of developers and consultants. Learn how to create a culture in your organization or team that will help you retain employees and help your team stand out. Learn some of the mistakes that most leaders make when starting a company. Finally, learn how to turn your idea into reality and grab your first customers.
Building Power Apps in Minutes with Dataverse
Learn how to build an app easier with Dataverse. In this session, you'll see how to model your data in Dataverse and then build views to see the data, forms to enter the data and lastly a model-driven app to give your users access to the data. You'll also see how to secure the data to where users can only see their own data.
Building an End-to-End Power Page
Power Pages help organizations scale their license to thousands of people by paying by capacity and not named users. It also allows you to extend Power Apps applications to partners, customers and large amounts of employees or students. In this session, Brian will show you how to construct one from the ground-up. He’ll stand up a new Power Pages site, configure it and ultimately build forms and lists to show the necessary data to only those with rights.
What You'll Learn:
- Building a Power Page site
- Using DataVerse to store your data
- Securing the data in Power Page with row-level security
- Building a back-office application to manage the data from Pages
7 Beginner PowerApps Functions You Must Learn First
Check out these 7 functions you must learn as a beginner in PowerApps. In this session, you'll learn about the PowerApps Lookup, Search and Filter functions for data filtering, SubmitForm and Remove to alter data. Also, learn about the user function to capture user information and Set command for global variables.
Power Platform Administration Best Practices
As Power Platform is introduced to an environment, many worry about it propagating without any governance, controls or admin strategy. In this session, we cover the best practice must-do strategies to increase governance, security and ease the administrators workload against your Power Platform environments.
What You’ll Learn:
• Environment Strategies
• Securing Your Data, Apps and Environments
• Auditing and Monitoring the Power Platform
• Implementing Data Loss Prevention Strategies (DLP)
Monitoring and Logging in the Power Platform

Brian Knight
Owner of Pragmatic Works, Writer and Business Applications MVP
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