SQL Saturday Preconference Optional System Requirements

If you are attending the preconference session on Building a Complete BI Solution on April 11 in Lisbon at SQL Saturday #267, I will provide all of the project and data files that I will be using at the beginning of the session.  You are welcome to follow-along with the finished project files but this is not a requirement to attend the session.  You are also welcome to simply attend and take notes and then you can download the samples later.

We will be using a fairly large volume of data for a laptop machine which increases the system requirement but you can load a subset of the data files if you prefer.  There are two different demo solutions and the system requirements are different for each.

system requirements

participation options:

  • watch & take notes
  • download workshop files & work with them later
  • follow along with all or part of the demonstrations, using the finished solutions*

Personal BI solution

  • Office 2013/365 ProPlus edition
  • Power Query
  • Power Map

Enterprise BI solution

  • SQL Server 2012 Developer edition
    all features installed
  • SSAS tabular instance
  • SSRS in native mode
  • 20 – 40 GB of disk space
    (whether you load part or all data)

* please use provided solutions rather than building as you go.  we can’t provide support or troubleshooting for your development environment.

Paul Turley

Paul Turley

Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Principal Consultant for 3Cloud Solutions Specializing in Business Intelligence, SQL Server solutions, Power BI, Analysis Services & Reporting Services.

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