Skill Me UP Talk

Power BI is a self-service Business Intelligence tool, which does a great job in hiding complexity and technology away from the user. But when it comes to performance and even correct numbers, one should spend some time finding the right way of modeling the tables and how they are related to each other. In this talk, we spend an hour doing exactly that. You will get answers to questions like: Why should you care about the data model? What kind of relations are available? How do they influence performance? Why redundancy is (not) a bad thing?

Markus is the founder of Savory Data and works as a project leader, trainer & consultant for data engineering, business intelligence, and data science since 1994. He is an educated software-engineer, graduated business educator and professor for databases and project engineering at HTL Leonding (technical college) and certified as MCSE Data Platform, MCSE Business Intelligence, and MCT. Markus speaks regularly on international conferences (eg. PASS Summit, SQLBits, SQL Saturdays, SQL Days, Power BI World Tour, ...) and writes articles for well-known journals. In 2013 he co-founded SQL PASS Austria and in 2015 Austria PUG and organizes SQL Saturdays in Austria since 2014. For his technical leadership in the community he was awarded as a Microsoft Data Platform MVP since 2017.