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Technical Leadership Centred Around the Microsoft Data Platform
Bringing the Data Platform Workspace and the Power Platform workspace Together Over the last 18 months or so I've been watching and supporting the development of Microsoft's new Software as a Service (SaaS) offering that has now been named at MSBuild 2023 as Microsoft Fabric. As a Microsoft MVP I've be aware of this offering … Continue reading What Is Microsoft Fabric? My Point of View
Azure Data Factory & Azure Synapse Analytics Pipeline Training Get your tickets for more in person training with me this October. Limited places available, don't miss out. Azure Data Integration Pipelines: Fundamentals to Level 300 When: Monday, 10th October Where: Lamot Conference & Heritage Centre - Mechelen, Belgium Host: dataMinds Connect Tickets: https://tickets.datamindsconnect.be/ Azure Data … Continue reading Training Events in October 2022
This year at SQLBits I'm honoured to be presenting a full training day and two regular sessions throughout the week. It'll be my 6th time at SQLBits, my 3rd time delivering a full training day and my 6th/7th time delivering sessions, I think! Full agenda here: https://sqlbits.com/information/schedulegrid My Sessions Azure Data Integration Pipelines - Advanced … Continue reading SQLBits 2022 – My Sessions
Having worked with Azure Data Factory and now Azure Synapse Analytics data integration pipelines ever since the resources first appeared in the Microsoft cloud platform, I've definitley earned (more than) my fair share of experience using the products. Both good and bad. As a data engineer and data archtiect. To help soften those bad experiences, … Continue reading Azure Data Integration Pipelines – A Deep Dive
Inspired by an earlier blog where we looked at 'How Interchangeable Delta Tables Are Between Databricks and Synapse' I decided to do a similar exercise, but this time with the integration pipeline components taking centre stage. As I said in my previous blog post, the question in the heading of this blog should be incredibly … Continue reading How Interchangeable Are Integration pipelines Between Azure Data factory and Azure Synapse Analytics?
Azure Data Factory & Azure Synapse Analytics Following a recent talk I did for the MeetUp 'Let's Talk - Data Engineering' , here is the recording on YouTube for those that didn't catch the live broadcast. I squeezed a lot of content into an hour for those that are new to Azure Data Factory and … Continue reading An Introduction to Azure Data Integration Pipelines
Scaling Azure Data Factory & Azure Synapse Analytics Pipelines Context Back in May 2020 I wrote a blog post about 'When You Should Use Multiple Azure Data Factory's'. Following on from this post with a full year+ now passed and having implemented many more data platform solutions for some crazy massive (technical term) enterprise customers … Continue reading Scaling Azure Data Integration Pipelines – Decoupling Data Extract And Transform
The other day Kamil (@NowinskiK) messaged me on Teams asking if I liked Mermaid's 🙂 I prepared myself for a conversation about which was better; the fish half being on top vs on the bottom. Ha! Of course not!! Kamil was actually referring to the... Javascript based diagramming and charting tool that renders Markdown-inspired text … Continue reading Using Mermaid to Create a ProcFwk Pipeline Lineage Diagram
On 2nd June 2020 Apress reached out to me about the role of technical reviewer on a book about Azure Data Factory. The exact conversation may amuse you, so I've included it exactly as it happened 🙂 THE BEGINNING Paul,I know writing is out of the question, but do you have bandwidth to tech review … Continue reading Azure Data Factory by Example – A Review of My Technical Review
Azure Data Analytics End to End Let's start with a story, not a 'once upon a time story', a story for your backlog 🙂 As a solution architect I need to design and build an Azure data analytics platform end to end to deliver data insights for my customer. In February 2021 I delivered a … Continue reading An Architects Guide to Delivering Data Insights Using the Microsoft Azure Data Platform
Welcome to the Blog & Website of Paul Andrew 