(Livestream Replay) Practical Azure Databricks for Power BI - with Alex Barbeau

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Are you working with Power BI, and your organization is using Azure Databricks, but you don't know where or how to start using an Open Data Lakehouse? In this demo focused presentation, Alex Barbeau will show practical tips and tricks for Power BI admins and developers to get started and succeed in using Databricks. From how to login to Databricks, the differences in Warehouse types, how to interact with the Hive Catalog and Unity Catalog, you'll leave this presentation with the information you need to get started on Databricks from Power BI.

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Alex Barbeau is a Data Engineering Group Manager at Avanade, and is based in Minneapolis. He started working with Power Pivot back in 2013, before pivoting to Power BI and Data Engineering in Azure. He has worked on multiple multi-billion row Power BI semantic layers, in industries spanning financial services, advertising, retail and CPG, and manufacturing, using Azure Synapse, Azure Databricks, and Snowflake on Azure. He was awarded the Fast Track Recognized Solution Architect award for Power BI in 2022 & 2023 by Microsoft, and is a Databricks Champion, recognized by Databricks.

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(Livestream Replay) Demystifying Fabric's SQL Architecture & Best Practices - with Bogdan Crivat

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Join Microsoft Azure's Corporate Vice-President (VP) Bogdan Crivat and I for this special livestream where we'll do a deep dive into the engineering behind the SQL architecture in Fabric, and how it's both similar and different from the SQL architecture you'd find in various Azure SQL databases. Plus he'll also demo and discuss some best practices for implementation of both Fabric Data Warehouses and Lakehouses. Tune in to learn more!

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Passioned about advanced analytics, machine learning, in-memory databases and parallel computing. His background is in Mathematics and Computer Science. Bogdan received a degree in Computer Science at University of Bucharest (1997) and a PhD degree from Universitatea Transilvania of Brasov, Romania (2011). He is also the author or co-author of 13 patents (and a number of pending applications), mostly in the areas of data mining, predictive analytics and in-memory analytics.

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(Livestream Replay) Supercharge Power BI with Azure Synapse Analytics - with Mathias HalkjærGPO

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Power BI is incredibly powerful at distributing and sharing data insights, through visualizations, across an entire organization. The democratization of Business Intelligence that Power BI brought with it is unparalleled. But Power BI on its own has its limitations and will often fall short, on its own, when designing end-to-end analytic platforms for enterprises. That’s where Synapse comes into the picture-for organizations, small and large, their current Power BI deployment can be supercharged with the capabilities of Azure Synapse.

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Mathias is self-proclaimed data platform fanatic on a mission to help leaders leaders leverage their data to transform the way they do business.

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(Livestream Replay) Exploring Azure Synapse Analytics - with Eric Gleiter & Justin Moen

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Have you considered using Azure Synapse Analytics? You may have wondered how it differs from some of the other Azure tools you're familiar with (such as Data Factory, Data Lake Gen2, SQL Data Warehouse, etc.) and when you should use Synapse over the others. We'll review what Azure Synapse is, how to get started using it, some "gotchas" to watch out for, and we'll show how we help get data into Synapse in an organized and usable way for reporting and analytics in a matter of weeks.

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Justin Moen is a business intelligence professional who has a passion for working with data and working with his clients to leverage data as a competitive advantage. Over the past 20 years, Justin has worked with many database solutions, such as Oracle, SQL Server, and Snowflake. He is quick at mastering new tools and has a great understanding of current trends in the industry. To complement his technical knowledge, Justin is excellent at working with both business and IT team members to help bring both sides together to produce strategies and solutions that propel businesses forward.

Eric Gleiter is a dedicated and driven application developer knowledgeable in a wide variety of tools. He is experienced in Data Governance and Data Engineering. His ability to learn and digest new information and technologies enables him to quickly understand, implement, and innovate solutions to client’s needs. Eric's mathematics background makes him both flexible and rigorous when it comes to implementing solutions- enabling him to break down complex problems into manageable parts that can be quickly addressed- allowing for fast and effective solutions.

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