I’ll be presenting my session on “How to use PowerBi as a Free monitoring tool” this Saturday in Parma.
Here you can check the session schedule, there are a lot of interesting sessions; moreover, the event is totally free, if you are in the area and you like data it can’t be missed!
Check out the event page here
FYI: You can get the Notebook for this article on my github and experiment yourself (opens with Azure Data Studio ).
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