As part of SQL Midlands User Group, Azure Birmingham UK User Group is hosting an event on April 6th 2017, 6:16 PM where I will be presenting on Custom Assemblies in Analysis Services.
A topic I have blogged about here and here, as well as presented at this, this and this event on this particular topic. If you are in the area, you should pop by!
Have a look at the preliminary future events here.
UPDATE: This event has been cancelled due to SQLBits announced in the same week.
August 23rd will be the day I speak publicly for the first time. The sorry crowd will be members of the Microsoft BI Professionals Denmark User Group, in short MSBIP. See more at http://msbip.dk/ or http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4069528&trk=hb_side_g
I will be speaking about how to create a custom assembly, in order to use the power of the relational engine knitted into MDX. I will be taking the information described in this blog post here, and combine it with the bloated version of AdventureWorks, thanks to Bob Duffy (blog|twitter), in order to get some critical mass to display the advantages.
Yesterday I attended the second meeting in the newly started LinkedIn group called MsBIP (Microsoft BI Professionals Denmark). I was anxious to find out who would show up, what would the agenda be and what level of knowledge would be on display.
I can honestly say that I was not disappointed in any way. The meeting was held at Microsoft’s premises in Hellerup, and offered very nice accommodation in regards of fruit, coffee, beverages etc.
First man on the stand was Thomas Skytte Damø ( LinkedIn – Twitter ) who gave a thorough introduction to all, well not all, new features of SQL Server 2012. Thomas did some demos along the way to show some of the new cool stuff coming from Redmond early next year. Thomas was granted extra time, to show more features, on behalf of Just Blindbæk ( Blog – Twitter ).
After a short break and some more of Thomas’s demos, Just took over for a very quick introduction on SSAS Performance Testing (not Tuning). Just showed just how easy it is to create a baseline and what tools would help in this regard. See Just’s blog entry on the subject: link
All in all I left the with the feeling, that I was definitely going to the next meeting. Maybe even presenting some AMO tricks or maybe some topic will present itself on future meetings.
Only negative remark would be that every other meeting is held in Aarhus, and meetings are two months apart, which leaves a four month gap between meetings…But I’m definitely there next time!