February 2021 Meetup

We are pleased to announce that we will be teaming up with Southampton User Group for our February meetup. As we won't be seeing each other in person it allows us to join the communities and host a joint user group.

18:30 Start

Pedro Lopes
Azure SQL: Path to an Intelligent Database

Pedro Lopes is a Principal Program Manager in the Azure Data SQL Server team, based in Redmond, WA, USA.

He over 19 years of industry experience and has been with Microsoft for almost 10 years, where he is currently responsible for Program Management of database engine features for SQL Server and Azure SQL, with special focus on the Relational Engine (Query Processor, Programmability, Performance). He is a regular speaker at conferences and user groups events (such as TechReady, Ignite, Build, PASS Summit, SQLIntersection, SQLBits, 24H of PASS), blogs about all things SQL at http://aka.ms/sqlserverteam, authored the book “Learn T-SQL Querying” (https://aka.ms/LearnTSQLQuerying), and several tools in the TigerToolbox on GitHub: AdaptiveIndexDefrag (http://aka.ms/AID), the BPCheck script for SQL Best Practices and Performance checks (http://aka.ms/BPCheck), or usp_WhatsUp to get an instant view of performance affecting issues in your workload (https://aka.ms/uspwhatsup).

5 minute break

Andy Jones
Power BI Security and Governance Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

Are you a technical professional deploying data to the cloud using Power BI? Maybe you're an IT decision-maker sold on the benefits of Power BI and are considering it for your organisation? Regardless of your role, you will be concerned about the security and governance of your company's principal asset, its data. If you deploy data to the cloud, you need to be aware of all potential attack vectors and what you must do to mitigate them. Attend this session to learn the secrets and best practices of getting the right data to the intended audience, authentication, data sovereignty, security, avoiding data sprawl, auditing and much more.

Andy Jones is a Principal Consultant for Coeo. He has been working with data for over 20 years, and his main interest is helping customers gain insight from their data using the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

20.30 - Finish