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Data Saturday - Johannesburg

event date

15 May 2021

location

Online

website

eventbrite.com/e/data-saturday-johannesburg-2011-tickets-134437071901

Data Saturday Johannesburg is a virtual online training event for professionals who use the Microsoft data platform.

Community speakers will offer sessions about the cloud, analytics, database administration, business intelligence, AI and more.

This year we are targeting junior and less experienced community members, therefore we will be looking for introductory and fundamentals talks. 

Due to the COVID pandemic, this event will be held online.

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Call for Speakers
Call opens at 12:00 AM

10 Apr 2021

Call closes at 11:59 PM

25 Apr 2021

Call closes in South Africa Standard Time (UTC+02:00) timezone.
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We will be trying something different with this event, unlike the traditional SQL Saturday format we will be a single-track event with sessions being 25 minutes.

All talks need to be at a 100-200 level and aimed at users with little to no experience working with data.

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158 submissions
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Thimantha Vidanagamage
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  • Azure Data Factory: No-code Data Preparation in a Modern Data Warehouse
  • Azure Analysis Services: Shifting to an Effective Semantic Model
Torsten Strauß
  • Table variable deferred compilation in Microsoft SQL Server
  • Detect Plan Regression with Query Store
  • Automatic Query Tuning in Microsoft SQL Server - Plan Correction
Hasham Niaz
  • Power BI for Sales Managers
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  • Power BI - 5 Tips & Tricks
Taiob Ali
  • What the heck is a checkpoint, and why should I care?
  • The magnificent seven - Intelligent Query Processing in SQL Server
  • New features in Management Studio — Performance Troubleshooting made easier!
  • Azure SQL Database-Business Continuity During Disaster
  • Azure SQL Database - Where is my SQL Agent?
James McGillivray
  • The Fundamentals of DAX Contexts
Klaus Aschenbrenner
  • Running SQL Server on Linux
  • Joins in SQL Server - as easy as ABC!?
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  • Docker for the SQL Server Developer
Marco Obinu
  • A gentle introduction to Azure Arc
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  • Planning a SQL Server migration to Azure without breaking the bank!
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Andy Levy
  • The Social Network in SQL Server
Javier Villegas
  • SQL Server 2019 New features
  • Performance Features in SQL Server and Azure SQL
  • Introduction to Azure SQL
Randolph West
  • Back to the future with Temporal Tables
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Gonzalo Bissio
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John Miner
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Björn Peters
  • How to get the best out of your SQL Server on Azure
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Deepthi Goguri
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  • Basic Life Cycle of a Query in SQL Server
Riccardo Zamana
  • Azure Iot Edge - a walkthrough to EDGE data services
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Edward Pollack
  • Decoding Query Execution Plans
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Mihail Mateev
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  • Creating Custom BI Solutions with Power BI Embedded
  • Power BI Embedded Gen 2 Unleashed
Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen
  • My Favorite Pie (Chart): Simple Rules for Clear Visualizations
  • A Game of Hierarchies: Introduction to Graph Processing with SQL Server 2019
  • Model Your Data Like a Star in Power BI
  • Self-Service AI with Power BI
  • Introduction to Numeric Calculations in DAX
  • From SQL to R – Leverage Your T-SQL Knowledge to Learn R
  • Do You Speak English? Localized Reports with Power BI
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Pedro Reis
  • Introduction to DAX
  • Getting Started with Power BI
  • From Power BI to Excel - The best of two worlds
  • "DAX" The way to do it... Again!
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Michael Johnson
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Thomas Hütter
  • An R primer for SQL folks
  • A refresher on geospatial data in SQL Server
Dèjì Akọ́mọláfẹ́
  • On-Premises or Hybrid Cloud? Questions That Matter When Virtualizing SQL Server on VMware vSphere
Gogula Aryalingam
  • The Need for and Execution of Power BI Dataflows
  • Putting up a BI Architecture with Discipline and Flexibility using Power BI
  • Data Modeling in Power BI: Why it's important and How to do it
Rob Richardson
  • Your Technology Your Way: Full-stack Web and Service with .NET and Node
  • Kubernetes Test Drive
  • Planning for the varied levels of once-data-processing with Kafka
Nikola Ilic
  • It's just a SQL - Crash course on Synapse Serverless for T-SQL ninjas!
  • Power BI & Synapse - The Art of (im)possible!
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Brandon Leach
  • SQL Server Configuration And Deployment With Powershell DSC
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Frank Geisler
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  • Introduction to SQL Server on Docker
  • Code Your Report Environment
  • Automating Power BI with PowerShell
Shane Welgama
  • Lock Picking your SQL Server
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Kevin Feasel
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Alpa Buddhabhatti
  • The Science Behind A Recommend Machine learning system - Using Azure ML
Kevin Chant, Sander Stad
  • GitHub DevOps Duet - Johannesburg edition
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Tom Martens
  • Power BI Adoption - Make Power BI the go-to analytical tool
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Magnus Ahlkvist
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  • Eight hours of work in 20 minutes.
Sebastiano Galazzo
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Yitzhak David
  • T-SQL Window Functions in SQL Server 2019
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Uwe Ricken
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Armando Lacerda
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Jose Manuel Jurado Diaz, Roberto Cavalcanti
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Jose Manuel Jurado Diaz
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Tracy Boggiano
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Ahmad Osama
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Wolfgang Strasser
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Carlos Lopez
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Eldert Grootenboer
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Erik Esmaty
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Dennes Torres
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Gethyn Ellis
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Tomaž Kaštrun
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Luis Beltran
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Will Velida
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Jean-Pierre Voogt
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