(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) 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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