1. Previously known as
Think Big. Move Fast.

2. Template designed by
brought to you by

3. SolidQ
• Born in 2002 in USA and Spain
• Established in 2007 in Italy
• More than 1000 customers and more than 200 consultants worldwide
• Dedicated to Data Management on the Microsoft Platform
• Books Authors, Conference Speakers, SQL Server MVPs and Regional Directors
• www.solidq.com

4. Davide Mauri
• 18 Years of experience on the SQL Server Platform
• Specialized in Data Solution Architecture, Database Design, Performance
Tuning, Business Intelligence
• Microsoft SQL Server MVP
• President of UGISS (Italian SQL Server UG)
• Mentor @ SolidQ
• Video, Book & Article Author
• Regular Speaker @ SQL Server events
• Projects, Consulting, Mentoring & Training

5. Data Integration

6. Data Integration
• Enterprise
• SQL Server Integration Services
• Self-Service
• Power Query (Excel)

7. SQL Server Integration Services
• Mature Product
• Around from 2005
• Extract-Transform-Load
• In-Memory
• Optimized for multi-threading, 64bits
• *VERY* Fast
• Well integrated with SQL Server AND Visual Studio

8. SQL Server Integration Services
• Native support to a wide choice of data source and destinations
• Excel, File, SQL Server, ODBC
• Good number of available data source/destination extensions
• OData, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, SalesForce, Dynamics, SAP, ecc. ecc.

9. SQL Server Integration Services

10. Power Query
• Excel Addin
• Native In Excel 2013
• As AddIn in Excel 2010
• Allow (not so) simple Data Transformations
• A lot of Data Sources natively supported
• Even the most “exotics”
• Exchange
• Facebook
• Web

11. Power Query Language
• Based on “M” Language
• Functional Language
• Like F#
• Declarative
• All transformations are scripted

12. SQL Server Integration Services

13. Previously known as
Think Big. Move Fast.