1. April 9, 2015 Email - passbavc@sqlpass.org
PASS BA Virtual Chapter Presents: “Transforming Reporting Requirements into a Visual Masterpiece”
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2. PASS Business Analytics Updates
Chapter Leader – Dan English Dan is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, author, on the leadership team for the MN Microsoft BI User Group, and is the Business Intelligence Practice Manager at Superior Consulting Services in MN. Chapter Co-Lead – Paras Doshi Paras is a consultant at SolidQ, Microsoft Community Contributor awardee and Blogger. He is passionate about helping businesses extract valuable insights from data.
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3. April 9 – Transforming Reporting Requirements into a Visual Masterpiece
Abstract Starting with an understanding of user objectives and business needs, we’ll talk about choosing the right visual theme for a report or dashboard; choosing the right tool and then explore techniques to deliver a functional reporting experience. We’ll talk about reporting on different data sources such as a SQL Server data mart, SSAS multidimensional & SSAS Tabular model. We’ll also consider a choice of visualization tools like SSRS, Power View and Excel Services. Presenter – Paul Turley is a Mentor with SolidQ and a Microsoft SQL Server MVP. He consults, writes, speaks, teaches & blogs about business intelligence and reporting solutions. He works with companies around the world to visualize and deliver critical information to make informed business decisions. He is a Director of the Oregon SQL PASS chapter & user group, the lead author of Professional SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services and 13 other titles from Wrox, Packt & Microsoft Press.

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Over 200 expert-led technical sessions – plus full-day, deep-dive pre-conference sessions – covering all aspects of SQL Server. All for the same cost as a week-long training course on one topic.
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Excel Business Intelligence
Apr 2 12:00-13:00 (UTC-06:00)
Getting Started with Power Query presented by Devin Knight
DBA Fundamentals
Apr 7 11:00-12:00 (UTC-06:00)
Getting started in Azure’s SQL Database presented by Warner Chaves
Virtualization
Apr 08 12:00-13:00 (UTC-05:00)
Easy VM Performance Tuning with Wait Statistics
Professional Development
Apr 08 17:00-18:30 (UTC-00:00)
Journey to being a Consultant presented by David Klee
High Availability & Disaster Recovery
Apr 14 12:00-13:00 (UTC-06:00)
Is AlwaysOn the Right HADR Plan for me? Presented by Ryan Adams
Business Intelligence
Apr 14 19:00-20:00 (UTC-05:00)
Automating your SSIS Design Patterns for Faster Development presented by Sam Vanga

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Apr 14 21:00-22:00 (UTC+01:00)
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Global Spanish
Apr 15 12:00-13:00 (UTC-05:00)
Planes de ejecuciόn en SQL Server 2014 presented by Guillermo Taylor
Global Russian
Apr 15 11:00-12:00 (UTC-06:00)
Оптимизация модели для работы с PowerBI Q&A
Global Hebrew
Apr 20 15:00-16:00 (UTC+02:00)
Schema-less table & Dynamic Schema presented by Davide Mauri
Apr 22 12:00-13:00 (UTC-05:00)
Polybase y su uso en la integraciόn de almacenes de datos presented by Eduardo Castro
Security
Apr 23 10:00-11:00 (UTC-08:00)
Analysis Services Security presented by Stacia Misner
Cloud
Apr 27 19:00-20:00 (UTC-05:00)
SQL Server DR in Microsoft Azure presented by Joseph D’Antoni

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10. PASS BA Webinar Marathon – Recordings Available
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What's next for Business Analytics in the 21st Century?
03 Feb :00 GMT
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03 Feb :00 GMT
Lynn Langit
An Overview of Predictive Analytics for Practitioners
03 Feb :00 GMT
Dean Abbott
Productivity Revolution in Excel
03 Feb :00 GMT
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