Stéphane Fréchette

Leading, working, creating and living better.

Stephane Frechette — Sat, 11 May 2013 13:30:03 +0000

How great leaders inspire action
Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question “Why?”…

For curious minds and further exploration view the TED curated playlist: Work smarter (11 talks)

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A full day of SQL Server 2012 BI training (free)

Stephane Frechette — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:17:23 +0000

Microsoft in collaboration with SQLTeach is having a full day of presentation on BI with SQL Server 2012. We will be presenting 5 sessions on different feature of SQL Server 2012 BI Stack. Join us for this free workshop day in Microsoft Office. See the presented sessions below.

Date: Friday April 26th
Location: 100 Queen 5th floor, Ottawa , ON
Time: 8:00am to 5:00pm

I will be presenting 2 sessions:

Data Quality Services in SQL Server 2012
An introduction to Data Quality Services. DQS enables to discover, build, and manage knowledge about your data. Use that knowledge to perform data cleansing, matching and profiling. We will explore the numerous features and capabilities of Data Quality Services and its integration with SSIS with the DQS Cleansing Transform. Data Quality Services in SQL Server 2012

Microsoft Business Intelligence in Excel 2013
The new release of Excel enables business users to do self-service Business Intelligence directly in the client, which now becomes a complete and powerful self-service BI tool – Basically users have all they need in one familiar environment in order to do data modeling, exploration and visualization of the data. New capabilities and features delivered for end users in Excel 2013; – ability to analyze data ranging from a few rows to hundred of millions of rows with extreme analytical performance – opportunity to speed up analysis in Excel by easily cleaning up and shaping your data with Flash Fill and Quick Explore – mash-up and analyze data from virtually any source quickly and create compelling analytical apps with PowerPivot – provide stunning data visualization to discover new insights with interactive and familiar data exploration, visualization and presentation experience with Power View.
Update: + Data Explorer and GeoFlow

Details: SQLTeach Ottawa BI Day with SQL Server 2012

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Data Quality Services in SQL Server 2012

Stephane Frechette — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:42:24 +0000

Slides from my presentation about Data Quality Services in SQL Server 2012 presented to the Ottawa IT and OttawaSQL community users groups Meetup.

Direct Link: https://speakerdeck.com/sfrechette/data-quality-services-in-sql-server-2012

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BC Gender Popular Names

Stephane Frechette — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:43:44 +0000

Source: British Columbia – DataBC
Most popular girl names for the past 100 years
Most popular boy names for the past 100 years

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BI for Visual Studio 2012 just released!

Stephane Frechette — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 03:17:18 +0000

The long anticipated SQL Server Data Tools for Visual Studio 2012 (SSDT BI) templates has just been released.

“With SSDT BI for Visual Studio 2012 you can develop and deploy SQL Server Business intelligence projects. Projects created in Visual Studio 2010 can be opened in Visual Studio 2012 and the other way around without upgrading or downgrading – it just works.” – SSIS Blog

It includes the following:

Visual Studio 2012 integrated shell (if Visual Studio 2012 is not installed on your environment)

Project templates for:

The download is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=36843

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Speaker engagement @ DevTeach – Toronto

Stephane Frechette — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 17:04:45 +0000

DevTeach stands for Developers Teaching. It is a conference done by developers for developers. It offers the elements of an international conference and the elements of a community event.

This year DevTeach is celebrating their 10th year anniversary!

I am thrilled to be part of this year event and will be presenting two SQL BI sessions:

Introduction to Master Data Services in SQL Server
What is Master Data Services? Why is it important? – Will discuss Master Data Services capabilities, it’s underlying architecture. Will demo creating a model, using SQL Server 2012 MDS add-in for Microsoft Excel, creating hierarchies, business rules and exposing/integrating data with other interfaces (Data Warehouse).

Microsoft Business Intelligence in Excel 2013
The latest release of Excel enables business users to do self-service Business Intelligence directly in the client, which now becomes a complete and powerful self-service BI tool – Basically users have all they need in one familiar environment in order to do data modeling, exploration and visualization of the data. New capabilities and features delivered for end users in Excel 2013; – ability to analyze data ranging from a few rows to hundred of millions of rows with extreme analytical performance – opportunity to speed up analysis in Excel by easily cleaning up and shaping your data with Flash Fill and Quick Explore – mash-up and analyze data from virtually any source quickly and create compelling analytical apps with PowerPivot – provide stunning data visualization to discover new insights with interactive and familiar data exploration, visualization and presentation experience with Power View.

Where: Toronto/Mississauga (Delta Meadowvale Hotel)
When: May 27-31, 2013

Take advantage of the early bird discount and save! Register -> http://www.devteach.com/Register.aspx

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