SQL Supper - March 2017

After an unusually long (let's call it seasonal) break we are back at onefinestay with great (and opinionated) speakers.

SCHEDULE

6.00 pm doors open

6.30 - 7:15 pm - Richard Lee - Off With Its Head: Build and Deploy with Headless SSDT

7:15 - 7:45 pm - Break

7:45 - 8:30 pm - Oliver Frost - Data Science with SQL Server 2016 and R

Richard Lee : Off With Its Head: Build and Deploy with Headless SSDT

Bio: Richie Lee is a man of many hats: Since graduating from university, Richie has held many different roles, starting as a Software Tester, before moving on to a mixture of TFS Administrator/Build Engineer/Release Manager/Database Administrator. This experience in a broad range of roles has helped Richie obtain not only the technological skills to help implement a Database Devops pipeline, but also appreciate the software development process from many different points of view and has helped him understand the deployment pipeline and how decisions at the beginning have a major impact on those downstream. Richie loves writing a bit of code to help automate a process or simplify a potentially complex solution, so that the next person can pick up a script and run with it.

Oliver Frost: Data Science with SQL Server 2016 and R

One of the most notable additions to the Microsoft BI stack is the addition of Microsoft R Server inside SQL Server 2016. The in-built ScaleR packages deliver scalability and multi-threading capabilities that open-source R can’t easily provide, opening up a world of possibilities for data scientists interested in machine learning and predictive analytics. But what does this look like on a Microsoft platform?

Bio: Oliver Frost, a Data Engineer at Consolidata, demonstrates what tools are available to you as a data scientist inside SQL Server 2016 and on Azure. Discover how R adds value where traditional relational databases struggle, how to use ScaleR functions to build predictive models and see how Azure ML can be used to build efficient machine learning pipelines.