No user group this month, but we won't leave you empty-handed! 👋 To fill the gap, our sponsor, Purple Frog, is hosting a free webinar on Agentic AI (22 Jan, 12–1pm GMT). If AI is on your 2026 roadmap, this is one you don’t want to miss. Register 👇

Happy New Year to our amazing data community! 🎉📊 Thank you for making 2025 a year full of collaboration. Here’s to another year of connecting, sharing knowledge, and exploring everything the Microsoft Data Platform has to offer✨💙

Just a reminder, we won’t be running a January meetup as we’re giving everyone a little extra time to settle into 2026.😊 But don’t worry… We’ll be back in February with more great sessions, speakers, and learning opportunities! Keep an eye on our Meetup page: www.meetup.com/microsoftdat...

Merry Christmas to our wonderful data community! ❄️🎄 We hope your holidays are SELECTively joyful, JOINed with friends and family, and completely UNTHROTTLED!😉 Thank you for being part of an amazing year!

Day 24 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎄❤️ A huge thank you to everyone who joined our first-ever Data Advent Calendar! Your guesses and enthusiasm made it magical. Wishing you all a warm, restful festive season. See you in the New Year! 🎁✨

Day 23 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 Visualisation challenge: You want to show Santa’s global route. ❓ Which visual do you choose? 🌍 Map / 📊 Bar / 🧮 Table / 📦 Card

Day 22 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 DAX: SUMX( FILTER(FactGifts, FactGifts[Month] = "December"), FactGifts[Count] ) ❓ What does this calculate?

Day 21 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 Fabric throttling issue? ❓ What’s one metric you’d check in the Capacity Metrics App?

Day 20 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 IDENTITY(int, 1, 1) ❓ What does IDENTITY define?

Day 19 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 Power BI modelling moment: You find 2 active relationships between the same tables. ❓ How does Power BI handle that?

Day 18 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 Visual challenge: Large number of categories ❓ Which chart best reduces clutter? Treemap / Pie / Column / Cards

Day 17 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 SELECT DISTINCT TOP 3 ElfName FROM Elves ORDER BY YearsExperience DESC; ❓ What does this query return?

Day 16 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 DAX simplification challenge: IF([NaughtyPoints] > 7, TRUE(), FALSE()) ❓ What’s a cleaner version?

Day 15 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 Modelling puzzle: ❓ What distinguishes a snowflake schema from a star schema?

Day 13 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 SELECT DATEPART(WEEKDAY, '2025-12-25'); ❓ Which weekday number is Christmas this year?

Day 12 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 Comparing two teams… ❓ Which chart is the worst choice? Pie / Bar / Table / Line

Day 11 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 DAX teaser: AVERAGEX(VALUES(DimChild[ChildID]), FactGifts[Count]) ❓ What does VALUES() return?

Day 10 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 Naming challenge: 🎄 DimReindeer 🎅 Reindeer_Dimension ❓ Which one fits better naming conventions?

Day 9 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 SQL time: SELECT REPLACE('ho-ho-ho','-',''); ❓ What’s the output?

Day 8 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 You have fact tables at different granularities❓ Which modelling design pattern could help?

Day 7 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 Your totals disappear in Power BI when using a slicer… ❓ Which function restores them? A) REMOVEFILTERS B) SUMX C) HASONEVALUE

Day 6 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Elves WHERE HatColour IN ('Red','Green','Green'); ❓ How many times is “Green” evaluated?

Day 5 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 Visualisation poll: Dataset = toy production over 12 months ❓ Which visual would you use? Line / Bar / Area / Scatter?

A tree-mendous thank you to Qays Aldaoud for today’s brilliant session on Fabric’s Capacity Management and Throttling Policies! What a perfect way to end a year filled with growth, learning, and community cheer! 🎄💡

Day 4 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 DAX challenge of the day: Total Gifts := CALCULATE(SUM(FactGifts[Count]), ALL(DimChild)) ❓ What does ALL() remove here?

🎄 We’re live in 1 hour! Grab a cuppa ☕ and join us for our final 2025 meetup with Qays Aldaoud, deep-diving into Fabric capacity & throttling. See you soon!⬇️ 🔗 www.meetup.com/microsoftdat...

Day 3 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 Schema guessing time 👀 Table: Deliveries Columns: ToyID, Region, DeliveredAt ❓ What might this dataset represent?

⛄ Tomorrow’s the day! Join us at 13:00 GMT for a brilliant session with Microsoft’s Qays Aldaoud as he walks us through Fabric’s Capacity Management & Throttling Policies. Final meetup of 2025, let's finish it strong! 🔗

Day 2 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 Your model: 🧊 FactOrders ❄️ DimCustomer 🎁 DimAddress ❓ What’s the issue if DimCustomer also contains address fields?

Only 48 hours to go! 🎄✨ Don’t miss our last meetup of the year with Qays Aldaoud, breaking down Fabric capacity & throttling in a practical, real-world way. See you Thursday at 13:00 GMT! 🔗 www.meetup.com/microsoftdat...

Day 1 of our Daily Data Puzzle Advent Calendar! 🎁 SELECT LEN('Snowflake') + 3 AS Result; ❓ What’s the output?

It’s meetup week! 🎉 Join us this Thursday at 13:00 GMT for our final session of 2025 with Microsoft’s Qays Aldaoud. We’ll be diving into Fabric Capacity Management & Throttling Policies. Don’t miss it!⬇️ 🔗

Our last meetup of 2024 is coming up! 🎁 Join Qays Aldaoud on Dec 4 @ 13:00 GMT for a festive deep dive into #Fabric capacity and throttling. End the year with new knowledge ✨ 🔗 www.meetup.com/microsoftdat...

Before you switch fully into mince pie mode… 🥧🎄 Join us for our final data session of 2025 on 4th Dec, 13:00 GMT! Microsoft’s Qays Aldaoud will be breaking down Fabric capacity & throttling in a way even your Christmas brain can handle 🤣 🔗

‘Tis the season for learning! 🎄 Come along to our final session of the year on Dec 4 @ 13:00 GMT, featuring Qays Aldaoud, who’ll be unwrapping the mysteries of Fabric’s capacity & throttling policies. Settle in with a hot drink and join us online ☕🎁 🔗 www.meetup.com/microsoftdat...

It’s our final meetup of the year! 🎄✨ Join us on 4th December at 13:00 GMT for a brilliant session with Qays Aldaoud from Microsoft. He’ll be taking us through Fabric Capacity Management & Throttling Policies. Perfect for ending the year smarter than you started! 🎁 🔗 www.meetup.com/microsoftdat...

Fabric throttling giving you chills? 🧊 Join us Dec 4 @ 13:00 GMT with Qays Aldaoud to break down capacity management, throttling, and how to master them💡 #DataCommunity #Fabric #Azure 🔗 meetup.com/microsoftdataplatformbirmingham/events/312079110

Ever hit a Fabric throttle and thought, “What just happened?” 😅 Join Qays Aldaoud on Dec 4 @ 13:00 GMT to find out exactly how Fabric capacity works, and how to make it work for you! 💪 #DataPlatform #MicrosoftFabric #PowerBI 🔗 meetup.com/microsoftdataplatformbirmingham/events/312079110

Want to get the most out of Microsoft Fabric? Join us online Thursday, 4th Dec, 13:00 GMT with Qays Aldaoud, Senior Engineer at Microsoft, for a practical deep dive into Fabric Capacity & Throttling Policies. Bring your questions👏 🔗 meetup.com/microsoftdataplatformbirmingham/events/312079110

Fabric capacity mysteries… solved! 🧩 Join Qays Aldaoud from Microsoft on Dec 4 at 13:00 GMT as he demystifies Fabric’s Capacity Management & Throttling Policies #DataCommunity #MicrosoftFabric #PowerBI 🔗 meetup.com/microsoftdataplatformbirmingham/events/312079110

We’re closing out the year with something special! 🎉 Join us Thursday, 4th Dec, 13:00 GMT for our next Microsoft Data Platform Group Birmingham meetup. 🎙️ Speaker: Qays Aldaoud 🧠 Topic: Fabric’s Capacity Management & Throttling Policies 👉 meetup.com/microsoftdataplatformbirmingham/events/312079110

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Got plans for lunch on 6th Nov? Grab a coffee ☕ and join us at 1pm GMT for our next Microsoft Data Platform Group Birmingham meetup! 🎙️ Speaker: Abhi Jayanty 💡 Topic: NoSQL Data Stores – What, Why, How #DataPlatform #Azure #Community 🔗 meetup.com/microsoftdataplatformbirmingham/events/311580027

No tricks, just treats! 🍬 Double, double, data and trouble… 🧪 This Halloween, get ready for some frighteningly good insights at our next session with Abhi Jayanty! 💾 Topic: #NoSQL Data Stores – What, Why, How Don’t ghost us 👻 🔗 meetup.com/microsoftdataplatformbirmingham/events/311580027

🧠 SQL vs NoSQL: when, why, and how? Find out with Abhi Jayanty at our next Microsoft Data Platform Group Birmingham meetup! 📅 6th Nov, 13:00 GMT | Virtual 🔗 meetup.com/microsoftdataplatformbirmingham/events/311580027

📢 Join us Thursday, 6th Nov, 13:00 GMT for our next Microsoft Data Platform Group Birmingham session! 💡 Speaker: Abhi Jayanty 🧠 Topic: “NoSQL Data Stores – What, Why, How” Discover how NoSQL fits into modern data solutions 🚀 🔗 meetup.com/microsoftdataplatformbirmingham/events/311580027

We’re so sorry we had to cancel today’s session at the last minute💙 Our speaker is unwell, and we’re sending them lots of well wishes for a speedy recovery. Thank you all for your understanding, we’ll update you soon on our next session 🙏 www.meetup.com/microsoftdat... cc: @kaysauter.bsky.social

✨ The best part of our group? The people. 3,325 people to be exact! We’re a community of curious minds exploring all things data: platforms, pipelines, analytics, and more. Join us on MeetUp and be part of the conversation! 💬

🙌 Yesterday we hosted #FabFestConf and we’re calling it a big success! A huge thank you to everyone who joined us in person, and in spirit. Now the big question… who’s up for joining us again next year? 🎉