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Presentations delivered to User Groups or IT communities

Presentations

Public Repo for Presentations/public sessions I have delivered or drafted. All content my own unless otherwise noted.

Free for reuse in community training/non-commercial environments provided credit attributed back to original author.

Below is a brief summary of the Presentations hosted here. All sessions aimed to run in 1 hour unless otherwise noted.

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SQL Server Query Tuning

First Delivered May 2019
University of Exeter IT Lunchtime Sessions

Overview of SQL Query tuning including tooling examples, query restructuring, adding indexes

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The Occasional DBA

First Delivered April 2019
University of Exeter IT Lunchtime Sessions

DBA duties for non-DBAs - helping IT Professionals understand databases

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Power BI

First Delivered: Mar 2019
University of Exeter IT Lunchtime Sessions

Introduction to Power BI Desktop to "demystify" the toolset: * Tool overview * Importing a simple csv * Creating basic visualisations * Connecting to a SQL Server store * Modifying tables in Data Model * Basic demo of the Power Query module * Learning Resources

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PowerShell Tips 'n' Tricks

First Delivered: Mar 2019
University of Exeter IT Lunchtime Sessions
Delivered as a 2-Part Session

Overview of PowerShells capbilities including: * variables * Control Loops * Piping * Classes and Functions * A nod to WSL

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SSRS 101

First Delivered: Mar 2019
University of Exeter IT Lunchtime Sessions

Introduction to the writing SSRS reports in Report Builder 3: * Embedded Data Sources, Data Sets * Tablix data tables * Inline charts (databars) and indicators * Simple Charts * Overview of Mobile Reports

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Introduction to Python

First Delivered: Feb 2019
University of Exeter IT Lunchtime Sessions

Introduction to the Python language for the uninitiated! A super-fast look at the following: * Getting Started - Pip and Conda * Writing Python in Jupyter notebooks * Functions and classes * Libraries * Basic flask app

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Source Control

First Delivered: Feb 2019
University of Exeter

Basics of using Source Control using BitBucket (hosted Git) as an example to store and share code including version history.

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Introduction to SQL Part 2

First Delivered: Feb 2019
University of Exeter IT Lunchtime Sesions

Beginner-level session on writing SQL Statements. Introducing

• GROUP BY
• HAVING
• ORDER BY
• Subqueries

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Introduction to SQL Part 1

First Delivered: Jan 2019
University of Exeter IT Lunchtime Sesions

Beginner-level session on writing SQL Statements. Introducing

• SELECT
• FROM
• WHERE
• INNER/LEFT JOIN

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Introduction to Azure

First Delivered: Jan 2019
University of Exeter IT Lunchtime Sesions

Entry-level presentation covering an introduction to the Azure portal.

Includes:

• High-Level intro to Azure
• Navigating the portal for the first time
• Introduction to Azure Subscriptions
• Data centres, regions
• Pricing calculator
• Demo of creating a VM

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Why Bother with BIML?

First Delivered: Feb 2015
SQL Southwest User Group

Introduction to BIML for SSIS in Visual Studio

Includes demos of writing BimlScript files in Visual Studio using BIDS Helper and compiling SSIS packages.

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Solving Problems with Recursive CTEs

    Undelivered
    September 2014

Using recursive CTEs in a pre-SQL-Server-Graph-Tables-World to resolve parent-child relationships in circular table-references

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