(Livestream Replay) Why OneLake is a BIG DEAL in Microsoft Fabric - with Pawel Potasinski)

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One of the key pillars of Microsoft Fabric is that it’s lake centric and open. At the core of this pillar there’s OneLake - a single, unified storage system for all your data. In this conversation Pawel and Reid will discuss and *** demo *** the benefits of OneLake for data professionals and organizations working with Fabric.

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Member of the Microsoft Fabric Customer Advisory Team (CAT), focused on community management and engagements. In his professional career Pawel has always been associated with data engineering and analytics (SQL, BI, Big Data). Founder of the Polish SQL Server Users Group (PLSSUG), today known as Data Community Poland. Regular speaker at conferences, community events and user groups. Former Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP).

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(Livestream Replay) Building a Digital Nervous System using Data Activator - with Will Thompson

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Data Activator is a new product in Microsoft Fabric that monitors data in Power BI reports and Event streams for when the data hits certain thresholds or matches other patterns. Then it automatically takes appropriate action such as alerting users or kicking off Power Automate workflows. You can use it to build operational systems of detection to automate actions over changing data. Will leads the product team, and is here to show how you can get started with demos and discussion around the product.

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Will is a self-confessed data geek, working his way through sysadmin and DBA roles before joining Microsoft. He spent 5 years helping customers in the UK implement and get value out of Microsoft’s BI solution. When an opportunity arose to move into product engineering in 2012, he jumped at it and took ownership of Power BI’s visual and modeling features. In 2022 he started running Product Management for Data Activator, a new product for monitoring and acting on changes in data.

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(Livestream Replay) Data Warehousing with Microsoft Fabric - with Andy Cutler

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With the introduction of Microsoft Fabric in 2023, the scope of data workloads available has expanded to include Power BI, Lakehouse, Warehouse, and Real-time Streaming. In this session we'll be diving into one of the workloads that Fabric offers, Data Warehousing. We'll cover a quick introduction to Fabric with a discussion on lakehouse vs warehouse. Then we'll dive into the SQL engine and look at how to create a Warehouse including objects like tables and stored procedures. We'll then look at how to load warehouses using SQL and Pipelines.

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Andy Cutler is an independent consultant specialising in the Azure Data Platform, working predominantly with Azure Synapse Analytics, Data Factory, SQL Server and Power BI. He holds an MSc in Business Intelligence and Data Mining, and is a current Microsoft Data Platform MVP.

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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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