December 21, 2021 PASSMN Meeting (Virtual Meeting Only)

Important Note: This meeting is online only and will not be held at the Microsoft Technology Center

Time: Dec 21, 2021 03:30 AM Central Time (US and Canada)

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3:30-4:00 Kickoff / Announcements /True Source
4:00-5:00 Let's Learn DAX Basics (Hasham Niaz)
5:00-5:10 Break
5:10-6:10 A session to future cloud DBA (Deepthi Goguri)
6:10-6:15 Closing

Meeting Sponsor: True Source IT (https://true-source.com/)

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Presentation topics, abstracts, speaker bio for this meeting:

#1 Hasham Niaz

Topic:
Let's Learn DAX Basics

Abstract:

This session will walk you through DAX basics concepts, even though people writing DAX for many years just ignore these basics and only rely on hit & try method; Learn DAX basics includes most powerful DAX functions; CALCULATE, SWITCH, SUM, SUMX, FILTER We will walk through different exercise how powerful these functions are and how simple it is to translate complex business logic into DAX.

Speaker:

Hasham Niaz is an experienced IT professional with more than 15 years of experience in BI, Database and Power Platform technologies with clients and implementations spanning multiple continents. As a sought out after Presenter and Program Committee Organizer of Power Platform, BI and database, he has contributed to events in Middle East, Asian and Americas

**#2: Deepthi Goguri **

Topic:
A session to future cloud DBA

Abstract:

You are a DBA and your company is planning to move all on-prem SQL Servers to Azure. You heard this plan from the management, got really exciting but at the same time nervous about not knowing what will happen to your DBA job once moved to the cloud. Come join the session as you are going to learn how moving to the cloud will actually expand your responsibilities from an on-prem DBA to Cloud DBA.

Speaker:

Deepthi is a SQL Server Database Administrator with several years of experience in Administering SQL Servers. She is a Microsoft certified trainer and Microsoft certified professional with an Associate and Expert level Certification in Data Management and Analytics. Deepthi blogs for DBANuggets.com. Deepthi is a Co-Organizer for Microsoft Data and AI South Florida user group and Data Platform Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Virtual Group. She is a Volunteer for Data platform Women in Technology user group. She is a Friend of Redgate. Along with this, Deepthi loves arts and crafts. You can contact her on Twitter @dbanuggets.

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