SQL Christmas 2017 Lightning Talks and Social

As has become a tradition we are having lightning talks on Tues 5th December with prizes awarded for best speakers and a few drinks afterwards to celebrate the end of the SQL year. Talks are fast and snappy at max 5 mins each. Any topic from DBEngine to BI to Big Data to Analytics to life as a DBA to why MSAccess is such a great product. To register to speak at the Christmas session post in the comments below or email [masked] Current Topic Include: – SQL 2017 predict function – Jeet Jadhav – MS SQL Server 2017 Graph DB, a first look –  Dan Galavan – Operating in the cloud: Expanding Azure Storage Arrays – Jeff Heaton – Automating BI Deployments with VSTS – Bob Duffy – Sentiment Analysis with Azure ML  – Mark Hayes- Chad Tether – Conquering an Excel file dump with SSIS and OpenXML- Open Query Store: Query Store functionality in earlier versions of SQL Server – Andrew Pruski- Streaming demo with Microsoft Flow and Power BI – Ben Watt

Special Guest Speaker:- dbatools SQL Server- Chrissy LeMaire