{"id":1135,"date":"2015-07-30T11:18:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T17:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2015-07-30T11:18:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T17:18:58","slug":"sqlsatindy-shaving-yak-and-power-bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/sqlsatindy-shaving-yak-and-power-bi\/","title":{"rendered":"#SQLSatIndy, Shaving Yak and Power BI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are probably wondering how these things are all related. I love summer, when there isn\u2019t a signed SOW I can find a million things to do outdoors. I love being out in the sun. This leaves me very unmotivated to be indoors doing things, like writing new presentations. Hence the problem.<\/p>\n<p>The Indianapolis SQLSaturday is near and dear to our hearts. First we love Hope Foley\u00a0 [\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/hopefoley.com\/\">BLOG<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hope_foley\">TWITTER<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 ], she\u2019s one kick ass woman and she\u2019 really an inspiration. Next Indy is only an hour away from our family and they were the first user group I ever attended. So it\u2019s no surprise that we both submitted to speak there. Now where all the fun comes in. In my infinite wisdom I had decided I wanted to do a new session on Power BI and figured Indy was a great opportunity to work out the kinks. Because Power BI changes on a weekly basis I decided to wait till the last minute to write this session, this is totally not something I would normally do.\u00a0 So here we are not much more than a week out and I am still working on this session and in run the Yak ready to be shaved.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"TMC_9421\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/photos_by_tammy\/20118406366\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/466\/20118406366_5823c15c30_z.jpg\" alt=\"TMC_9421\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Sharky needs friends in the pool, so I HAD to put this Lego set together. (AKA Yak)<\/p>\n<p>The sun is shinning, the yard &amp; pool are calling my name, my house needs cleaned and here I sit shaving yak and pretending I am working on that new session.\u00a0 OR writing this blog post and doing laundry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Here are the fine details:<\/h2>\n<p>Thursday 8\/6 \u2013 Late we\u2019ll arrive in INDY<\/p>\n<p>Friday 8\/7 \u2013 KLT to work in the morning, Free all afternoon till the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxandhound.com\/locations\/indianapolis\/\">speaker dinner<\/a> at 7:30 PM<\/p>\n<h5>Saturday 8\/8 \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlsaturday.com\/402\/EventHome.aspx\">SQLSatIndy<\/a> &lt;- Register and Details.<\/h5>\n<h5>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Come see us present on Power BI.<\/h5>\n<p>10:30 AM &#8211; 11:30 AM\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kerry is presenting \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlsaturday.com\/402\/Sessions\/Details.aspx?sid=38007\">Connecting Power BI to On-Prem SSAS Tabular<\/a><strong>\u201d <\/strong><br \/>\n10:30 AM &#8211; 11:30 AM\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I am presenting <strong>\u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlsaturday.com\/402\/Sessions\/Details.aspx?sid=38146\">Primer on Power BI<\/a>\u201d<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sunday 8\/9 \u2013 I am visiting with my mom &amp; step-dad, but generally free till dinner.\/KLT headed to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motogp.com\/en\/event\/Indianapolis\">MotoGP<\/a> with Joey &amp; Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>Monday 8\/10 &#8211; YUCK Drive home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are probably wondering how these things are all related. I love summer, when there isn\u2019t a signed SOW I can find a million things to do outdoors. I love being out in the sun. This leaves me very unmotivated to be indoors doing things, like writing new presentations. Hence the problem.<\/p>\n<p>The Indianapolis SQLSaturday is near and dear to our hearts. First we love Hope Foley [ BLOG | TWITTER ], she\u2019s one kick ass woman and she\u2019 really an inspiration. Next Indy is only an hour away from our family and they were the first user group I ever attended. So it\u2019s no surprise that we both submitted <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/sqlsatindy-shaving-yak-and-power-bi\/\">#SQLSatIndy, Shaving Yak and Power BI<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,228,221,286,148,273,279,287,235],"tags":[231,218,309,245,234],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sqlcommunity-technology","category-sqlfamily-technology","category-sqlsat","category-business-intelligence","category-pass","category-power-bi","category-speaking-technology","category-sqlsaturday-technology","category-travel","tag-sqlcommunity","tag-sqlfamily","tag-sqlsat","tag-sqlsaturday","tag-technology-2","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}