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
I've already got several events in the calendar for the first quater of 2022! Assuming travel plans are permitted I'm really looking forward to speaking and attending the following events. Hope to see you there or online: SQL Portugal Data MeetUp https://www.meetup.com/sqlport-data/ 6th Jan - An Introduction to Azure Data Integration Pipelines3rd Feb - Azure … Continue reading Training Events and Speaking in 2022 – Q1
When logging into my MVP profile to update community activities etc I still have to do a double take when seeing the bookmark image (on the left). Specifically, the 'Number of MVP Awards' sub heading, reading 5. Five consecutive years I've been given this great award from Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional. Smug face … Continue reading The 5 Year Microsoft MVP Milestone
New & Updated Talks for the Community With 2020 in the rear view mirror its time to reflect on another year of experience gained as a consultant designing and delivering data platform solutions for my customers in this every changing world of technology. I've previously confessed that my job is my hobby, so its great … Continue reading Preparing My Community Talks for 2021
Like so many events SQLBits 2020 was delivered from our homes... Training sessions and content delivered via webcam and recordings. Catching up with friends done via chat rooms and breakout sessions. Hanging out in the coffee line done my hanging out in your kitchen with a headset. Banter and consume sharing done via social media. … Continue reading SQLBits 2020 – My Review & Thoughts
Join me for a full day of training on Azure Data Factory. If we want to achieve any data processing in Azure you need an umbrella service to manage, monitor and schedule your solution. For a long time when working on premises, the SQL Agent has been our go-to tool, combined with T-SQL and SSIS … Continue reading A Day Full of Azure Data Factory
Hi friends, its conference time again and Microsoft have kindly provided another Book of News. This time its for Build 2020 and it contains details of all the announcements made. Based on the 55 pages of content it would appear Microsoft is once again focused on all things Azure Data/AI in this current release period, … Continue reading Microsoft Book of News – Build 2020
Following a recent talk I did for the Europe - Data Platform Discovery Day, here is the YouTube recording for those that didn't get to see it live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtDTJPbXVpQ Slides available in GitHub here: https://github.com/mrpaulandrew/CommunityEvents/blob/master/DataPlatformDiscoveryDay-2020/Slides.pdf Thanks again to the event organisers. Please reach out if you'd like me to speak at your community event. A … Continue reading A Complete Introduction to Azure Data Factory
Another year and another excellent SQLBits conference is in the events calendar. We were supposed to be back in London and at the massive ExCel exhibition centre. However, the event (like most others) is going virtual. For me, once again I'm very humbled to have been selected to speak, not once, but three times. Thank … Continue reading Preparing for SQLBits 2020 – My Azure Data Factory Sessions
Renewing my post from last year (here) I've gathered my thoughts and put together the following content that I'd like to deliver to our wonderful data platform community in 2020. 2019 has been a great year for me having delivered 30 talks, in 17 cities and 8 different countries. This brings my grand total to … Continue reading My Community Talks 2020
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