{"id":7930,"date":"2015-12-08T17:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craftydba.com\/?p=7930"},"modified":"2017-10-15T17:46:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T17:46:09","slug":"hartford-sql-server-user-group-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/?p=7930","title":{"rendered":"Hartford &#8211; SQL Server User Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am enthusiastic about presenting to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/hartford-sql-user-group-dec-2015-tickets-19859105118\">Hartford SQL Server User Group <\/a>on December 8, 2015. <\/p>\n<p>Of course, I am looking forward to seeing my friends John Flannery and Dennis Perlot. However, I love to chat to local user groups about any SQL server topic that I am passionate about.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting venue has changed since the last time I visited to the following:<\/p>\n<p>    Blum Shaprio<br \/>\n    29 South Main Street,<br \/>\n    Please Park in Town Center Garage<br \/>\n    West Hartford, CT <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000\">Press Release:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft just released The Power Business Intelligence Desktop Designer.  Join us as John Miner, Microsoft SQL Server MVP, demonstrates the new amazing capabilities of this cutting edge software.  <\/p>\n<p>Learn how X-Velocity uses super compression to query data faster than ever.  See how Power Query can access virtually any data anywhere turning it into business information.  Discover how disparate data can be conceptualized into a single business view.  New visualization technology brings all this together to see your business like never before.  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000\">Topic:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Power BI Desktop Designer<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000\">Abstract:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You have been asked by upper management to provide new dashboards to describe how the North Wind Traders company is doing, find new business opportunities, and make sure sales are going in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>How can you leverage the Power BI Desktop Designer to complete this request?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000\">Coverage:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1.\tLoad company data into the model<br \/>\n2.\tLoad additional data for new analysis<br \/>\n3.\tUse the M(ashup) language to format data<br \/>\n4.\tCreate relationships between the datasets<br \/>\n5.\tUse the DAX language to add additional measures<br \/>\n6.\tGraph the results using cool visual elements<br \/>\n7.\tCollate a bunch of graphs into a dashboard presentation<br \/>\n8.\tMake the dashboard dynamic with slicers<br \/>\n9.\tPublish the results to the cloud for sharing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/PBI.zip\">Presentation Bundle<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am enthusiastic about presenting to the Hartford SQL Server User Group on December 8, 2015. Of course, I am looking forward to seeing my friends John Flannery and Dennis Perlot. However, I love to chat to local user groups about any SQL server topic that I am passionate about. The meeting venue has changed since the last time I visited to the following: Blum Shaprio 29 South Main Street, Please Park in Town Center Garage West Hartford, CT Press Release: Microsoft just released The Power Business Intelligence Desktop Designer.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[1101],"class_list":["post-7930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pres","tag-business-intelligence--john-f-miner-iii--pass--presentation--hartford--ct--sql-user-group--power-bi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftydba.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}