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SQLGLA 2018

event date

14 Sep 2018

location

the Studio, Hope Street, Glasgow Glasgow, United Kingdom

website

sqlgla.co.uk/

SQLGLA is the ONLY free Data Platform community event in Scotland and returns on Friday 14th September 2018! Sign up to our mailing list to be the first to get updates and information!

Founded in 2017 our aim is to grow the Data Platform community​ in Scotland & the UK as a whole by bringing attendees together with free, high quality training from experienced Speakers supported ​by generous sponsors.

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20 Mar 2018

Call closes at 2:59 PM

30 Apr 2018

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After a great first year in 2017! We are back with FOUR times the conference!


We are looking for speakers near and far to come to Scotland's ONLY free Data Platform event. Sessions can be around any aspect of the Microsoft Data Platform. DBA, BI, Data Warehousing, Machine Learning, PowerShell and all the rest! We want to hear your ideas!

We look forward to your submissions! 

The SQLGLA Team

all submitted sessions

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121 submissions
Submitted sessions
Neil Hambly
  • PowerBI your way to understand your SQL Server Estate
André Kamman
  • Rock Solid Scheduled Powershell Scripts
  • No More SQL Agent - Azure Automation for DBAs
  • Becoming a hipster DBA, a guide to Github and CI/CD for Admins
  • Azure SQL Datawarehouse - The complete introduction
Johan van den Brink
  • Process mining - analyzing logs and processes with ease
  • Scraping SQLSaturday.com using Python in an Azure Notebook
Wout Vangoidsenhoven
  • SSIS Varia, Cool new and existing features
  • Power BI real time reporting
Shane O' Neill
  • Introducing PowerShell to your SQL Server environment
Ewan Anderson, Joanne Fletcher
  • Developing Your Career
Paul Broadwith
  • Leveraging PowerShell Validation - Let PowerShell Do The Work
  • Introducing Chocolatey - Sweet Software Nirvana For Windows
  • Git Fundamentals: Open Up A World Of Community and Collaboration
Jan Mulkens
  • Monitoring your Power BI environment
  • Migrating to Power BI Report Server and Power BI Service
  • Automating Power BI Deployments
  • Towards Personal Data Science with Power BI
  • Enabling Citizen Data Science with Microsoft
  • Practical SQL Server Machine Learning Services
  • Rub DevOps on all the things!
  • Data Science, easy until it's not
Chris Taylor
  • AWS Glue - Let's get "stuck" in!
  • AWS or Azure – Which is right for you?
  • Introduction to Containers
Tobias Koprowski
  • SQL Server Backup in AD 2018
  • Database in the Cloud for Early Adopters
  • Windows Azure SQL Database-A Journey from Zero to be Hero
  • AD 2018. 2 AM. A New Disaster just began.
  • Secure Your Data in Five Clicks!
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Muhammad Qadeer
  • Automating SQL Server DBA's BAU tasks
Cathrine Wilhelmsen
  • Uhms and Bunny Hands: Avoid the Presentation Mistakes I Made
  • Advance Your Career by Becoming a Volunteer
  • Biml Tips and Tricks: Not just for SSIS packages!
  • Tools and Tips for Data Warehouse Developers
  • Level Up Your Biml: Best Practices and Coding Techniques
  • Biml for Beginners: Script and Automate SSIS Development
Mary Fealty
  • Power BI, my review
John Martin
  • Deploying DBAChecks at Scale
  • The Evolution of a Data Professional
  • Introduction to Azure SQL Database Managed Instances?
John Stewart
  • Moving SQL BI Development to Azure for a Global Team
Terry McCann
  • DevOps for Data Science
  • Exploring Graph structures with the CosmosDB Gremlin API
  • Enhancing relational models with graph processing In SQL Server 2017.
  • Getting started with Machine learning in Python
Sander Stad
  • Simplifying Log Shipping using dbatools
  • Working Remote or Remotely Working
  • dbatools - PowerShell and SQL Server Working Together
  • PowerShell - Grow Your Script From Simple to Module
Kevan Riley
  • Tune the query, not the plan
Dave Morrison
  • Query plans - Zero to Hero
  • Practical PowerApps Techniques
  • Introduction to PowerApps
  • SQL Tips & Tricks from the field
Andy Mallon
  • Automating routine tasks for the SQL Server data professional
  • Shortcuts from an Impatient DBA
  • Demystify Data Compression
David Williams
  • SQL Server vNext New Features - BI Edition
  • SQL Server vNext New Features
  • SQL Server Tools including Linux
  • SQL Server 2017 SSIS Scale Out Master and SSIS on Linux
Cláudio Silva
  • Administrating SSRS/PBIRS was a boring task! Sorry...did you said WAS?
Chrissy LeMaire
  • doomsday prepping with dbatools
Rob Sewell
  • PowerShell and SQL Server - Lets make it work
  • dbachecks - The PowerShell Module to validate your SQL Estate
William Durkin
  • Query Store without SQL 2016 = Open Query Store
  • On-premises, Hybrid and Cloud: Databases Can Live Anywhere Now!
  • Automation for the DBA: Embrace your inner sloth
Marek Jablonski
  • Azure database perfomance
  • Automatic memory configuration in large MS SQL Server environment
Ásgeir Gunnarsson
  • Enterprise Power BI – Development Lifecycle
  • Analysis Services DNA
  • Impact of weather on English Premier League matches – Power BI Desktop analysis
  • Analysing your corporate online presence using Power BI
Stijn Wynants, Pieter Vanhove
  • Migrating to Azure Managed Instances!
  • Choosing your Data Platform fit: SQL database, Managed Instance, VM or Hybrid?
  • SQL Server Problem Bingo!
Alex Yates
  • Containers and Clones: giant databases on tiny HDDs
  • Database version control and deployment: model or migration scripts?
  • DevOps, Dev Data and the GDPR: 5 solutions
  • DevOps 101 for Data Professionals
Hugo Kornelis
  • T-SQL User-Defined Functions, or: How to kill performance in one, easy step
  • Hash Match, the Operator
  • Now Where Did THAT Estimate Come From?
  • Execution plans ... where do I start?
Thomas Hütter
  • A process mining primer
  • 50 ways to show your data
  • A journey through the Tidyverse
  • Next first steps - selected applications of R
  • An R primer for SQL folks
Thomas Sykes
  • Moving to the cloud; PaaS, IaaS or Managed Instance
Jose Manuel Jurado Diaz, Vitor Pombeiro
  • Could Azure SQL Database help me in my Data scientist role? The answer is.....Yes! Of course!
Jose Manuel Jurado Diaz
  • Back to the future: Moving on your database from On-premise to Cloud and go back?
Jose Manuel Jurado Diaz, Roberto Cavalcanti
  • Move your database to the Cloud: Understand, Design, Migrate, Manage, and Monitor Azure SQL Database
Annette Allen
  • Developing SQL Code to keep your DBA happy
Sarah Lean
  • Governance in the Cloud
Matija Lah
  • SQL Server Statistical Semantic Search
  • SQL Server and XML Query
  • FILETABLEs: What They Are and How to Use Them
Johan Ludvig Brattås
  • Don't cross the streams! A closer look at Stream Analytics
  • Deploying Power BI in the Enterprise - lessons learned
  • Implementing a hybrid datawarehouse
Kevin Chant
  • Choose your own Database Adventure
Stijn Wynants
  • Index Tuning for the developer
  • Datawarehouse Lightning Performance with Columnstore!
  • Real-Time Analytics: OLAP & OLTP in the mix!
Simon Whiteley
  • Cloud Orchestration: PaaS SSIS & Advanced Patterns with ADFV2
  • Modern Data Warehousing - A template for Lambda BI in Azure
Andrew Pruski
  • Jenkins, Docker & SQL Server - Automate all the things!
  • SQL Containers in the Cloud! An intro to running Docker in Azure
  • Partitioning 101
  • SQL Server & Containers
Chrissy LeMaire, Gianluca Sartori
  • Simplifying XEvents Management with dbatools
Ben Watt
  • An IoT session - from Raspberry Pi to Power BI and lots in between
Paul Andrew
  • Azure Data Lake - The Services. The U-SQL. The C#.
  • Working with Azure Data Factory & Creating Custom Activities
  • Azure Data Factory v2 – SSIS Data Flows & Custom Extensibility
Ust Oldfield
  • Deep Dive into Azure Data Lakes
  • Presenting Big Data in Power BI
  • Automating Tabular with TMSL and PowerShell