(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) DBT...What's That?!? Exploring the Data Build Tool in Fabric - with Johnny Winter 💀

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Explore the powerful fusion of dbt (data build tool) with Microsoft Fabric. Discover how this integration allows you to transform your data using version controlled, documented, repeatable and testable patterns that you're able to deploy within Fabric's Synapse Data Warehousing. Learn practical use cases and best practices for leveraging dbt's capabilities, enhancing data reliability and driving more informed decision-making processes. For those wanting to follow along, you'll need access to a Fabric Data Warehouse, VS Code and a virtual python environment.

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Johnny currently works as a consultant for Advancing Analytics. He’s been working with Business Intelligence software since 2007, specialising in the Microsoft data platform since 2016. He’s a self-confessed Business Intelligence geek and in his spare time runs the website and YouTube channel Greyskull Analytics, where he likes to nerd out about all things Power BI.

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(Livestream Replay) Monitoring Power BI and Fabric Tenant Information - with Just Blindbaek

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Need to get the full overview of a Power BI and/or Fabric tenant? What are the users doing? What’s created? This session is a walkthrough of a complete monitoring solution to extract all the valuable tenant information including the activity events, the artifact metadata and the settings. You will learn how to setup and use Integration Pipelines in Azure Data Factory or Azure Synapse Analytics and get examples of querying the data with Azure Synapse Serverless SQL Pool. We will also discuss what questions you can get answered, when combining all the information. And then we will also cover alternative solutions.

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Microsoft Business Intelligence architect with extensive experience in all phases of BI development on Microsoft SQL Server, Azure, Power BI and Fabric.

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(Livestream Replay) Power BI CI/CD, the REST API, and VSCode - with Gerhard Brueckl

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Since its release in 2015, Power BI has quickly become one of the major and widest spread reporting tools on the market. It is used for self-service BI, team BI and also enterprise BI solution of which especially the latest has very specific requirements when it comes to managing deployments and releases. We would like to discuss the typical use-cases and problems that you will encounter when trying to use the traditional approaches for CI/CD and release management with Power BI.

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Gerhard is a data solution architect at Paiqo GmbH in Austria. He has been working with Microsoft Data & BI tools for over 15 years and is still continuously learning. In all those years he was always shared his knowledge with the community in forums, his personal blog or when speaking at conferences or user groups. Over the last years he focused more on big data and cloud processing in Microsoft Azure but always maintained the link to his roots in BI.

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