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My latest presentations

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Just wanted to make everyone aware of my latest presentations that I recently uploaded. Details below. I also have a list of all my presentations with slide decks here.   Azure...

2019-12-04

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Azure Synapse Analytics new features

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Almost lost in all the announcements from Ignite was a bunch of amazing new features that were added to the Provisioned Resources/SQL Pool section (read SQLDW functionalities) side of...

2019-11-19 (first published: 2019-11-11)

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Microsoft Ignite Announcements

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Microsoft Ignite has always announced many new products and new product features, and this year was no exception. Many exciting announcements, and below I list the major data platform...

2019-11-13 (first published: 2019-11-06)

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Databricks Delta Lake

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Introduced in April 2019, Databricks Delta Lake is, in short, a transactional storage layer that runs on top of cloud storage such as Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2...

2019-10-25 (first published: 2019-10-15)

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Ways to access data in ADLS Gen2

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With data lakes becoming popular, and Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 being used for many of them, a common question I am asked about is “How can I...

2019-09-16

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New product: Azure Data Share

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A brand new product by Microsoft called Azure Data Share was recently announced. It is in public preview. To explain the product in short, any data which resides in...

2019-08-29 (first published: 2019-08-19)

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Podcasts on Modern Data Warehouse

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I did a couple of recent podcasts that I wanted to mention: The first one was with Kirby Repko from the YouTube channel SQLTalk: Modern Data Warehouse Design with...

2019-08-23 (first published: 2019-08-08)

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Top SQL Server migration questions

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Below are the top 12 questions I am seeing from customers looking to migrate on-prem SQL Server to Azure, and the blogs that I have wrote that try to...

2019-07-29

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Top Modern Data Warehouse questions

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Below are the top 15 questions I am seeing from customers looking to build a modern data warehouse in the cloud, and the blogs that I have wrote that...

2019-07-22

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Big Data Workshop

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A challenge I have with customers who want to get hands-on experience with the Azure products that are found in a modern data warehouse architecture is finding a workshop...

2019-07-30 (first published: 2019-07-10)

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