March '15 BRSSUG Meeting!
BRSSUG
Our next meeting is next Wednesday March 11, 2015, at the Louisiana Technology Park with guest speaker Thomas LeBlanc.
Topic: Getting Started With Tabular Analysis Services
Detail: This session will give the basics of starting a tabular model with Analysis Services 2014 and PowerView from Excel 2013. We will start by opening the Visual Studio environment to create a Solution/Project. The Fact and Dimension tables will be imported and Filtered. Basic attribute and hierarchies will be created along with some calculations on the fact data. The Deployed project will be previewed in PowerView from Excel 2013.
Thomas’ Bio:
Thomas LeBlanc is a Data Warehouse Architect in Baton Rouge, and uses his 25 years in IT to help develop OLTP systems with normalized databases for high-performing T-SQL systems and end-to-end dimensional data marts using SSIS, SSAS, 3rd party apps, and Excel. His SQL Server certifications include MCSA 12, MCITP 08 BI and DBA, MCITP 2005 DBA, and MCDBA 2000. As a PASS volunteer, he is currently the Excel BI VC chair and past chair of Data Arch VC and VC Mentor. Thomas has spoken at the PASS Summit for the last 4 years(2011-2014). Local work includes the Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group and assisting with four SQLSaturdays. Bing TheSmilingDBA for more information about Thomas
Want to join us? Please do! You’ll learn, you’ll laugh, you’ll eat free dinner, what’s to lose?
The meeting will begin around 6pm, sponsored by Envoc (http://envoc.com/)!
All of our meetings are open to the public, open to students, folks looking to get into the field and those looking to move up! Please spread the word and come prepared to learn and share your knowledge and experience!
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Info on the Tech Park Location is here: www.brssug.org/where
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See you there!
-Adrian Aucoin Jr, President, BRSSUG
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