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PASS BA Virtual Chapter Presents: “The 13 Excel Features Database Developers Should Know About”
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3. Nov 13 – The 13 Excel Features Database Developers Should Know About
Abstract In the beginning, SQL Developers viewed Excel as the enemy – vowing to take every data entry spreadsheet and turn it into a beautiful relational database application with validations. But times have changed, and Excel has come back around, but in a different light. Business users rely on Excel for analytics out of the data we provide them (and even for data where we can’t give them a clean version). Even if developers don’t use Excel themselves, they owe it to themselves and their companies/clients to be aware of the many Excel features for “slicing and dicing” data. In this presentation, I’ll show 13 different features in Excel where knowledge will help developers to speak the same language as their users – everything from Power Pivot, Power View, Power Query and Power Map features to advanced Excel formulas and Excel “what-if” functionality. And who knows – maybe a few developers will walk away with some ideas for using Excel for some of their personal development projects! Presenter – Kevin Goff Kevin S. Goff is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP Database architect/developer/speaker/author Regular columnist for CoDe Magazine on .NET, SQL Server, and Business Intelligence topics Frequent speaker at community events in the Mid-Atlantic region. Host of BDBI Radio ( a weekly webcast on SQL/BI topics

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DBA Fundamentals
Nov 11 11:00– 12:00 (GMT-06:00)
In-Memory OLTP – The Ultimate Performance Frontier with Ami Levin
High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Nov 11 12:00-13:00 (GMT-06:00)
Introduction to Log Shipping with Brandon Leach
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Recuperación de desastres y soluciones de alta disponibilidad con SQL Server with Michelle Gutzait
Business Analytics
Nov 13 12:00-13:00 (GMT-05:00)
13 Excel features that DB Developers should know about with Kevin Goff
Business Intelligence
Nov 17 14:00-15:00 (GMT+01:00)
How to (not) torment your fellow SSIS developer?
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Dec 2 14:00-15:00 (GMT-05:00)
Hive: SQL on Hadoop

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