Azure Cert: AI – 102

Just sharing a quick note, I passed the exam ai-102 on June 10th, 2021. The exam doesn’t cover predictive analytics in SQL like I had hoped, but this exam covers a ton of Cognitive Service scenarios and materials. Primarily on Computer Vision, Conversational AI (translator/speech) and Cognitive Search. It covers the whole gamut of the…

🔐Security in a shared workspace

Well, why?... perhaps you prefer not spinning more resources to segmentate the environment or decouple the workloads, but you still need to enforce data security across domains. Lets look at how to secure an HR container in a shared Azure Synapse Analytics workspace that serves mixed workloads by using only RBAC permissions at the storage,…

🗺️Guide: Synapse Spark ✨ – Getting Started

Pls feel free to share with others and spread the word. Step 1 watch this video https://www.youtube.com/embed/8-mdnw_L91Y Step 2 skim through these slides for more context: Coming soon... The rest is all hands-on stuff - if you get stuck at any point lmk. Step 3 do this learning path: Perform data engineering with Azure Synapse…

My pipeline is slow, what do I do?

It was a Sunday, I was working on my tile as usual. Pulling a double shift on weekends has become a norm, but enough about that. This isn't my construction blog. The email came in about Azure Data Factory. My friend happened to watch my video and reached out for help. Watch it on YouTube…

Protected: Plano 505

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Protected: Registration: Sealand Maersk – Power BI Advanced Data Modeling

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🌎 AI Bootcamp – Tomorrow in Fort Lauderdale!

I'll be speaking at Global AI Bootcamp this weekend in the Microsoft Fort Lauderdale office. My session will be at 1:30 pm in Room 3, tomorrow, Saturday. It's free to attend. I am very excited to cover new material on Spark and Azure Data Studio Machine Learning Services extension which is soon to-be-announced. I hope…

SQL Saturday – Charlotte (918)

I'll be speaking at Charlotte this weekend and it'll be a first for me there. This is again quite exciting. I hope you get the chance to join me and come the conference. Repo https://github.com/hfleitas/charlotte918 Prev Post: https://dba2o.wordpress.com/2019/06/10/going-big-real-big-power-platform-resources/ Slides Photos Another great session at #SQLSaturdayCharlotte @HiramFleitas showing how to use #PowerApps and #PowerAutomate and use…

Protected: Upgrade SQL Server “In-Place” with Skip Over (on Windows)

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Power BI Fest 2019🎊

This year we're having the first ever Power BI Fest in South Florida and I was lucky to have been invited to speak at the event. I will be giving 2 talks in the morning. More info and registration around the event can be found on the event's website https://powerbifest.com/home/presenters. Space is very limited. Sessions…