What we’re about
This the new site for the St. Louis SQL Server (STLSSUG) and Business Intelligence (STLBIUG) user groups. The first incarnation of this group began in 2004.
Our Recordings are Posted at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM18n_v3EOP1KBlsCPRalSg/videos
Our Purpose
- To establish channels of communication and education for individuals working with the SQL Server Database Management System, Microsoft's Modern Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence tools.
- To conduct conferences, meetings, discussion groups, forums, panels, lectures and other programs which enable the exchange of information.
- To encourage the development of related SQL server and Azure Data Platform products, working methodologies and best practices.
- To promote excellence in information processing through the recognition individuals, who judged by their peers, put forth the highest efforts and succeed in best utilizing these technologies within their enterprises.
Code of Conduct
St. Louis SQL Server (STLSSUG) and Business Intelligence (STLBIUG) Meetup Group supports the diversity of our community. We strive to welcome different perspectives in a community where everyone feels respected and valued, and are committed to inclusion across race, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, ability, geography, religion, identity, and experience. Above all, we ask that all members be kind to one another and conduct themselves respectfully, creating a positive experience for everyone involved.
- Conduct yourself with integrity, respect, honesty, and credibility.
- Approach all events and interactions in accordance with the highest ethical standards of professionalism and personal conduct.
- Embrace the diverse community of professionals and learners, and be inclusive of all audiences in your presentations, demonstrations, conversations, and comments.
Upcoming events (3)
See all- Azure ARCCGI (Formerly Daugherty), Creve Coeur, MO
Teams Meeting: Link
Meeting Sponsor: CGI
Azure ARC
As the data space becomes more complicated with the amount of data being generated, the emergence of large language model AI, and major shifts in the demographics of available workforce, it becomes harder to find resources and time to work on innovative data projects that can given your business competitive advantage. One way to tackle this problem is streamlining operations. This session will demonstrate how Azure is not just a data center including cloud services, but also a mature set of operational management tools. Azure ARC unlocks the use of this toolset against your on premises environment so you get the value of the cloud without migration. And much of it is free, especially in the SQL Server space!Speaker: Todd Painter has been working in Data & AI for 25 years working for multiple companies in the St. Louis area, doing data consultancy in the legal industry for a few years, and now working as a technical specialist at Microsoft. At Microsoft he works with the largest healthcare organizations in the US on their Data & AI efforts including data platforms in Fabric/Databricks, building AI systems leveraging Microsoft's Azure AI services, migrating SQL Server and other databases to Azure, and helping to improve operations via the use of Azure ARC and the Azure suite of management tools to centralize management of on premises servers.
- Fabric AI SkillsCGI (Formerly Daugherty), Creve Coeur, MO
Teams Meeting: Link
Meeting Sponsor: CGI
Fabric AI Skills
Since the release of ChatGPT a little over two years ago, many organizations have explored a pattern called RAG which gives you the ability to chat with your unstructured data. Think documents like HR policies. Rather than hoping your traditional enterprise search or Sharepoint system finds the document or information you're seeking, you simply chat as you would with an HR associate. Well, this same pattern can be used against your databases. The traditional pattern is to create reports and dashboards to put this information in the hands of business users. Now those business users can simply chat against your structured data. Fabric offers an out of the box solution for this called AI Skills and we'll also show and discuss how to do this with Azure AI services should you not own Fabric today.Speaker: Todd Painter has been working in Data & AI for 25 years working for multiple companies in the St. Louis area, doing data consultancy in the legal industry for a few years, and now working as a technical specialist at Microsoft. At Microsoft he works with the largest healthcare organizations in the US on their Data & AI efforts including data platforms in Fabric/Databricks, building AI systems leveraging Microsoft's Azure AI services, migrating SQL Server and other databases to Azure, and helping to improve operations via the use of Azure ARC and the Azure suite of management tools to centralize management of on premises servers.
