Category: Synapse

Data Integration, Architecture and Real-Time Analytics Full Training Days with Me 2024

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SQL Bits, UK, go to >> SQL Day, Poland, go to >> Data Platform Next Steps, Denmark, go to >> Big Data Europe, Lithuania, go to >> SQLBits | March | Online & In Person Microsoft Data Integration Pipelines – The Fundamentals to Level 300 Event Link: https://sqlbits.com/attend/the-agenda/full-day-training/Microsoft_Data_Integration_Pipelines__The_Fundamentals_to_Level_300 Overview In this full day of training, … Continue reading Data Integration, Architecture and Real-Time Analytics Full Training Days with Me 2024 →

Is Azure Synapse Analytics Dead and Does It Really Matter?

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The product vs the capabilities I think it’s fair to say that Azure Synapse Analytics has had a hard life. It was announced in public preview as a surprise to most of the community, including Microsoft cloud solution architects. Ultimately meaning that very little private preview testing and feedback on the product was done before … Continue reading Is Azure Synapse Analytics Dead and Does It Really Matter? →

SQLBits 2024 – My Sessions

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This year at SQLBits I'm once again honoured to be presenting a full training day, a 100 minute session and a regular session during the week. It'll be my 8th time at SQLBits and my 4th time delivering a full training day. Full agenda here: https://sqlbits.com/attend/the-agenda My Hat-Trick Of Sessions Microsoft Data Integration Pipelines – … Continue reading SQLBits 2024 – My Sessions →

What Is Microsoft Fabric? My Point of View

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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 →

Can Azure Data Analytics unlock better business decisions?

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My MSIgnite UK Spotlight Session 2022 Abstract The drive to stay ahead of the competition is greater than ever. With this comes a new wave of demand for data, in a resilient, reliable, and easily accessible form. In this session we’ll address the growing requirement for this capability head on, aligning our understanding on what … Continue reading Can Azure Data Analytics unlock better business decisions? →

Training Events in October 2022

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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 →

Learning Azure Synapse Analytics – Early Release

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Just a quick post friends. As you may already be aware, with my friend and now Avanade colleague Richard Swinbank (@RichardSwinbank), we are at it again. Following the success and enjoyment of collaborating on Richard's book 'Azure Data Factory by Example', previously blogged about here. We decided to engage with O'Reilly on a new project, … Continue reading Learning Azure Synapse Analytics – Early Release →

SQLBits 2022 – My Sessions

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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 →

An Introduction to Delta Lakes and Delta Lake-Houses

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Recording from the Hybrid Virtual Group MeetUp Abstract Once upon a time, there was a data warehouse and it lived happily as a set of tables within our relational database management system (RDMS) called Microsoft SQL Server. The data warehouse had three children known as extract, transform, and load. One day a blue/azure coloured cloud … Continue reading An Introduction to Delta Lakes and Delta Lake-Houses →

Azure Data Integration Pipelines – A Deep Dive

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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 →