Voting closes soon at GroupBy, the new free online conference where YOU pick the lineup. Here’s the sessions up for votes – there’s a lot of them, so maybe focus on rating the sessions you find the most interesting – quantity of votes counts for a lot here:
Analytics and Business Intelligence:
- High-Performance SQL Server Reporting Services: Lessons Learned – Bert Wagner
- Make your R script production-ready with SQL Server R Services – Nellie Gustafsson
- Power BI Dashboard in an Hour with Various Examples – Vishal Pawar
- Power BI for the C-level Suite – Jen Stirrup
- Save Time and Improve SSIS Quality with Biml – Andy Leonard
- So You Want to Be a Data Scientist? – Dave Wentzel
- SQL R Services: Start Working WITH Your Data Scientists – Dave Wentzel
Database Administration:
- Alleviating database consolidation pains – Alexander Arvidsson
- Bringing DevOps to the Database – Steve Jones
- DevOps 101 for data professionals – how your jobs will change – Alex Yates
- Linux OS Fundamentals for the SQL Admin – Anthony Nocentino
- Optimizing your SQL Server for Azure VMs – Parikshit Savjani
- SQL Server & Containers – Andrew Pruski
- TFS Database backups/restore – Uche Okoye
Development:
- Crash Course on Better SQL Development – Vladimir Oselsky
- Get Spatial With It – Michael Henderson
- How to Use Parameters Like a Pro and Boost Performance – Guy Glantser
- Linear and Proximal Interpolations in T-SQL – Ami Levin
- SQL Server and Continuous Integration – James Anderson
- T-SQL: Bad Habits and Best Practices – Aaron Bertrand
- T-SQL for Beginners – Andrea Allred
- T-SQL User-Defined Functions, or: How to Kill Performance in One Easy Step – Hugo Kornelis
Performance Tuning:
- 3 Common Mistakes to Kill SQL Server Performance – Pinal Dave
- Architecture and Customer Case Studies with In-Memory OLTP – Jos de Brujin
- Gems to help you troubleshoot query performance – Pedro Lopes
- In-Memory Tables with Natively Compiled T-SQL: Blazing Speed for OLTP and More – Andrew Novick
- Introducing the SQL Server 2016 Query Store – Enrico van de Laar
- Measuring the Overhead of the Query Store – Jason Hall
- SQL Server 2016 Features for Performance Tuning Lovers – Matan Yungman
- Successful production deployments with columnstore index in SQL Server 2016 – Sunil Agarwal
PowerShell:
- Green is good, Red is bad – Turning your Checklists into Pester Tests – Rob Sewell
- Introduction to SQL PowerShell (the awesome new 2016 version)! – Aaron Nelson
- Operational Validation of SQL Server at scale with PowerShell and Jenkins – Cody Konior
- SQL Server and PowerShell: Let’s Get Serious – Drew Furgiuele
Multiple Categories:
- Enhancements that will make your SQL database engine roar – 2016 SP1 Edition – Pedro Lopes
- Keep It Simple, Make It Fast: The SQL Server Strategy at Stack Overflow
- Management Studio level-up – Daniel Hutmacher
- SQL Server 2016 “Hidden Gems” – Adam Machanic
- SQL Server 2016: It Just Runs Faster – Bob Ward
- SQL Server Infernals – A Beginner’s Guide to SQL Server Worst Practices – Gianluca Sartori
Voting closes next Friday. Make your voice heard and pick the conference lineup.
