Should I move my database to the cloud?James Serra
So you have been running on-prem SQL Server for a while now. Maybe you have taken the step to move it from bare metal to a VM, and have seen some nice benefits. Ready to see a TON more benefits? If you said “YES!”, then this is the session for you as I will go over the many benefits gained by moving your on-prem SQL Server to an Azure VM (IaaS). Then I will really blow your mind by showing you even more benefits by moving to Azure SQL Database (PaaS/DBaaS). And for those of you with a large data warehouse, I also got you covered with Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Along the way I will talk about the many hybrid approaches so you can take a gradual approve to moving to the cloud. If you are interested in cost savings, additional features, ease of use, quick scaling, improved reliability and ending the days of upgrading hardware, this is the session for you!
As part of this session, I will be giving an introduction to Data Engineering and Big Data. It covers up to date trends.
* Introduction to Data Engineering
* Role of Big Data in Data Engineering
* Key Skills related to Data Engineering
* Role of Big Data in Data Engineering
* Overview of Data Engineering Certifications
* Free Content and ITVersity Paid Resources
Don't worry if you miss the video - you can click on the below link to go through the video after the schedule.
https://youtu.be/dj565kgP1Ss
* Upcoming Live Session - Overview of Big Data Certifications (Spark Based) - https://www.meetup.com/itversityin/events/271739702/
Relevant Playlists:
* Apache Spark using Python for Certifications - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf0swTFhTI8rMmW7GZv1-z4iu_-TAv3bi
* Free Data Engineering Bootcamp - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf0swTFhTI8pBe2Vr2neQV7shh9Rus8rl
* Join our Meetup group - https://www.meetup.com/itversityin/
* Enroll for our labs - https://labs.itversity.com/plans
* Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for Videos - http://youtube.com/itversityin/?sub_confirmation=1
* Access Content via our GitHub - https://github.com/dgadiraju/itversity-books
* Lab and Content Support using Slack
Azure Synapse Analytics is Azure SQL Data Warehouse evolved: a limitless analytics service, that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics into a single service. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources, at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate business intelligence and machine learning needs. This is a huge deck with lots of screenshots so you can see exactly how it works.
Big data architectures and the data lakeJames Serra
With so many new technologies it can get confusing on the best approach to building a big data architecture. The data lake is a great new concept, usually built in Hadoop, but what exactly is it and how does it fit in? In this presentation I'll discuss the four most common patterns in big data production implementations, the top-down vs bottoms-up approach to analytics, and how you can use a data lake and a RDBMS data warehouse together. We will go into detail on the characteristics of a data lake and its benefits, and how you still need to perform the same data governance tasks in a data lake as you do in a data warehouse. Come to this presentation to make sure your data lake does not turn into a data swamp!
AWS Cloud Kata 2013 | Singapore - Getting to Scale on AWSAmazon Web Services
This session will focus on how to get from 'Minimum Viable Product' (MVP) to scale. It will also explain how to deal with unpredictable demand and how to build a scalable business. Attend this session to learn how to:
Scale web servers and app services with Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling on Amazon EC2
Scale your storage on Amazon S3 and S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage
Scale your database with Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache
Scale your customer base by reaching customers globally in minutes with Amazon CloudFront
Microsoft Data Platform - What's includedJames Serra
The pace of Microsoft product innovation is so fast that even though I spend half my days learning, I struggle to keep up. And as I work with customers I find they are often in the dark about many of the products that we have since they are focused on just keeping what they have running and putting out fires. So, let me cover what products you might have missed in the Microsoft data platform world. Be prepared to discover all the various Microsoft technologies and products for collecting data, transforming it, storing it, and visualizing it. My goal is to help you not only understand each product but understand how they all fit together and there proper use case, allowing you to build the appropriate solution that can incorporate any data in the future no matter the size, frequency, or type. Along the way we will touch on technologies covering NoSQL, Hadoop, and open source.
Should I move my database to the cloud?James Serra
So you have been running on-prem SQL Server for a while now. Maybe you have taken the step to move it from bare metal to a VM, and have seen some nice benefits. Ready to see a TON more benefits? If you said “YES!”, then this is the session for you as I will go over the many benefits gained by moving your on-prem SQL Server to an Azure VM (IaaS). Then I will really blow your mind by showing you even more benefits by moving to Azure SQL Database (PaaS/DBaaS). And for those of you with a large data warehouse, I also got you covered with Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Along the way I will talk about the many hybrid approaches so you can take a gradual approve to moving to the cloud. If you are interested in cost savings, additional features, ease of use, quick scaling, improved reliability and ending the days of upgrading hardware, this is the session for you!
As part of this session, I will be giving an introduction to Data Engineering and Big Data. It covers up to date trends.
* Introduction to Data Engineering
* Role of Big Data in Data Engineering
* Key Skills related to Data Engineering
* Role of Big Data in Data Engineering
* Overview of Data Engineering Certifications
* Free Content and ITVersity Paid Resources
Don't worry if you miss the video - you can click on the below link to go through the video after the schedule.
https://youtu.be/dj565kgP1Ss
* Upcoming Live Session - Overview of Big Data Certifications (Spark Based) - https://www.meetup.com/itversityin/events/271739702/
Relevant Playlists:
* Apache Spark using Python for Certifications - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf0swTFhTI8rMmW7GZv1-z4iu_-TAv3bi
* Free Data Engineering Bootcamp - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf0swTFhTI8pBe2Vr2neQV7shh9Rus8rl
* Join our Meetup group - https://www.meetup.com/itversityin/
* Enroll for our labs - https://labs.itversity.com/plans
* Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for Videos - http://youtube.com/itversityin/?sub_confirmation=1
* Access Content via our GitHub - https://github.com/dgadiraju/itversity-books
* Lab and Content Support using Slack
Azure Synapse Analytics is Azure SQL Data Warehouse evolved: a limitless analytics service, that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics into a single service. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources, at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate business intelligence and machine learning needs. This is a huge deck with lots of screenshots so you can see exactly how it works.
Big data architectures and the data lakeJames Serra
With so many new technologies it can get confusing on the best approach to building a big data architecture. The data lake is a great new concept, usually built in Hadoop, but what exactly is it and how does it fit in? In this presentation I'll discuss the four most common patterns in big data production implementations, the top-down vs bottoms-up approach to analytics, and how you can use a data lake and a RDBMS data warehouse together. We will go into detail on the characteristics of a data lake and its benefits, and how you still need to perform the same data governance tasks in a data lake as you do in a data warehouse. Come to this presentation to make sure your data lake does not turn into a data swamp!
AWS Cloud Kata 2013 | Singapore - Getting to Scale on AWSAmazon Web Services
This session will focus on how to get from 'Minimum Viable Product' (MVP) to scale. It will also explain how to deal with unpredictable demand and how to build a scalable business. Attend this session to learn how to:
Scale web servers and app services with Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling on Amazon EC2
Scale your storage on Amazon S3 and S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage
Scale your database with Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache
Scale your customer base by reaching customers globally in minutes with Amazon CloudFront
Microsoft Data Platform - What's includedJames Serra
The pace of Microsoft product innovation is so fast that even though I spend half my days learning, I struggle to keep up. And as I work with customers I find they are often in the dark about many of the products that we have since they are focused on just keeping what they have running and putting out fires. So, let me cover what products you might have missed in the Microsoft data platform world. Be prepared to discover all the various Microsoft technologies and products for collecting data, transforming it, storing it, and visualizing it. My goal is to help you not only understand each product but understand how they all fit together and there proper use case, allowing you to build the appropriate solution that can incorporate any data in the future no matter the size, frequency, or type. Along the way we will touch on technologies covering NoSQL, Hadoop, and open source.
Introduction to Microsoft’s Master Data Services (MDS)James Serra
Master Data Services is bundled with SQL Server 2012 to help resolve many of the Master Data Management issues that companies are faced with when integrating data. In this session, James will show an overview of Master Data Services 2012, including the out of the box Web UI, the highly developed Excel Add-in, and how to get started with loading MDS with your data.
Building an Effective Data Warehouse ArchitectureJames Serra
Why use a data warehouse? What is the best methodology to use when creating a data warehouse? Should I use a normalized or dimensional approach? What is the difference between the Kimball and Inmon methodologies? Does the new Tabular model in SQL Server 2012 change things? What is the difference between a data warehouse and a data mart? Is there hardware that is optimized for a data warehouse? What if I have a ton of data? During this session James will help you to answer these questions.
Modern Data Architecture for a Data Lake with Informatica and Hortonworks Dat...Hortonworks
How do you turn data from many different sources into actionable insights and manufacture those insights into innovative information-based products and services?
Industry leaders are accomplishing this by adding Hadoop as a critical component in their modern data architecture to build a data lake. A data lake collects and stores data across a wide variety of channels including social media, clickstream data, server logs, customer transactions and interactions, videos, and sensor data from equipment in the field. A data lake cost-effectively scales to collect and retain massive amounts of data over time, and convert all this data into actionable information that can transform your business.
Join Hortonworks and Informatica as we discuss:
- What is a data lake?
- The modern data architecture for a data lake
- How Hadoop fits into the modern data architecture
- Innovative use-cases for a data lake
AI for an intelligent cloud and intelligent edge: Discover, deploy, and manag...James Serra
Discover, manage, deploy, monitor – rinse and repeat. In this session we show how Azure Machine Learning can be used to create the right AI model for your challenge and then easily customize it using your development tools while relying on Azure ML to optimize them to run in hardware accelerated environments for the cloud and the edge using FPGAs and Neural Network accelerators. We then show you how to deploy the model to highly scalable web services and nimble edge applications that Azure can manage and monitor for you. Finally, we illustrate how you can leverage the model telemetry to retrain and improve your content.
Introduction to Microsoft’s Hadoop solution (HDInsight)James Serra
Did you know Microsoft provides a Hadoop Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)? It’s called Azure HDInsight and it deploys and provisions managed Apache Hadoop clusters in the cloud, providing a software framework designed to process, analyze, and report on big data with high reliability and availability. HDInsight uses the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Hadoop distribution that includes many Hadoop components such as HBase, Spark, Storm, Pig, Hive, and Mahout. Join me in this presentation as I talk about what Hadoop is, why deploy to the cloud, and Microsoft’s solution.
The data lake has become extremely popular, but there is still confusion on how it should be used. In this presentation I will cover common big data architectures that use the data lake, the characteristics and benefits of a data lake, and how it works in conjunction with a relational data warehouse. Then I’ll go into details on using Azure Data Lake Store Gen2 as your data lake, and various typical use cases of the data lake. As a bonus I’ll talk about how to organize a data lake and discuss the various products that can be used in a modern data warehouse.
Data Warehousing Trends, Best Practices, and Future OutlookJames Serra
Over the last decade, the 3Vs of data - Volume, Velocity & Variety has grown massively. The Big Data revolution has completely changed the way companies collect, analyze & store data. Advancements in cloud-based data warehousing technologies have empowered companies to fully leverage big data without heavy investments both in terms of time and resources. But, that doesn’t mean building and managing a cloud data warehouse isn’t accompanied by any challenges. From deciding on a service provider to the design architecture, deploying a data warehouse tailored to your business needs is a strenuous undertaking. Looking to deploy a data warehouse to scale your company’s data infrastructure or still on the fence? In this presentation you will gain insights into the current Data Warehousing trends, best practices, and future outlook. Learn how to build your data warehouse with the help of real-life use-cases and discussion on commonly faced challenges. In this session you will learn:
- Choosing the best solution - Data Lake vs. Data Warehouse vs. Data Mart
- Choosing the best Data Warehouse design methodologies: Data Vault vs. Kimball vs. Inmon
- Step by step approach to building an effective data warehouse architecture
- Common reasons for the failure of data warehouse implementations and how to avoid them
Choosing technologies for a big data solution in the cloudJames Serra
Has your company been building data warehouses for years using SQL Server? And are you now tasked with creating or moving your data warehouse to the cloud and modernizing it to support “Big Data”? What technologies and tools should use? That is what this presentation will help you answer. First we will cover what questions to ask concerning data (type, size, frequency), reporting, performance needs, on-prem vs cloud, staff technology skills, OSS requirements, cost, and MDM needs. Then we will show you common big data architecture solutions and help you to answer questions such as: Where do I store the data? Should I use a data lake? Do I still need a cube? What about Hadoop/NoSQL? Do I need the power of MPP? Should I build a "logical data warehouse"? What is this lambda architecture? Can I use Hadoop for my DW? Finally, we’ll show some architectures of real-world customer big data solutions. Come to this session to get started down the path to making the proper technology choices in moving to the cloud.
Overview of Microsoft Appliances: Scaling SQL Server to Hundreds of TerabytesJames Serra
Learn how SQL Server can scale to HUNDREDS of terabytes for BI solutions. This session will focus on Fast Track Solutions and Appliances, Reference Architectures, and Parallel Data Warehousing (PDW). Included will be performance numbers and lessons learned on a PDW implementation and how a successful BI solution was built on top of it using SSAS.
Differentiate Big Data vs Data Warehouse use cases for a cloud solutionJames Serra
It can be quite challenging keeping up with the frequent updates to the Microsoft products and understanding all their use cases and how all the products fit together. In this session we will differentiate the use cases for each of the Microsoft services, explaining and demonstrating what is good and what isn't, in order for you to position, design and deliver the proper adoption use cases for each with your customers. We will cover a wide range of products such as Databricks, SQL Data Warehouse, HDInsight, Azure Data Lake Analytics, Azure Data Lake Store, Blob storage, and AAS as well as high-level concepts such as when to use a data lake. We will also review the most common reference architectures (“patterns”) witnessed in customer adoption.
Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric (r2)James Serra
So many buzzwords of late: Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric. What do all these terms mean and how do they compare to a modern data warehouse? In this session I’ll cover all of them in detail and compare the pros and cons of each. They all may sound great in theory, but I'll dig into the concerns you need to be aware of before taking the plunge. I’ll also include use cases so you can see what approach will work best for your big data needs. And I'll discuss Microsoft version of the data mesh.
Introduction to Microsoft’s Master Data Services (MDS)James Serra
Master Data Services is bundled with SQL Server 2012 to help resolve many of the Master Data Management issues that companies are faced with when integrating data. In this session, James will show an overview of Master Data Services 2012, including the out of the box Web UI, the highly developed Excel Add-in, and how to get started with loading MDS with your data.
Building an Effective Data Warehouse ArchitectureJames Serra
Why use a data warehouse? What is the best methodology to use when creating a data warehouse? Should I use a normalized or dimensional approach? What is the difference between the Kimball and Inmon methodologies? Does the new Tabular model in SQL Server 2012 change things? What is the difference between a data warehouse and a data mart? Is there hardware that is optimized for a data warehouse? What if I have a ton of data? During this session James will help you to answer these questions.
Modern Data Architecture for a Data Lake with Informatica and Hortonworks Dat...Hortonworks
How do you turn data from many different sources into actionable insights and manufacture those insights into innovative information-based products and services?
Industry leaders are accomplishing this by adding Hadoop as a critical component in their modern data architecture to build a data lake. A data lake collects and stores data across a wide variety of channels including social media, clickstream data, server logs, customer transactions and interactions, videos, and sensor data from equipment in the field. A data lake cost-effectively scales to collect and retain massive amounts of data over time, and convert all this data into actionable information that can transform your business.
Join Hortonworks and Informatica as we discuss:
- What is a data lake?
- The modern data architecture for a data lake
- How Hadoop fits into the modern data architecture
- Innovative use-cases for a data lake
AI for an intelligent cloud and intelligent edge: Discover, deploy, and manag...James Serra
Discover, manage, deploy, monitor – rinse and repeat. In this session we show how Azure Machine Learning can be used to create the right AI model for your challenge and then easily customize it using your development tools while relying on Azure ML to optimize them to run in hardware accelerated environments for the cloud and the edge using FPGAs and Neural Network accelerators. We then show you how to deploy the model to highly scalable web services and nimble edge applications that Azure can manage and monitor for you. Finally, we illustrate how you can leverage the model telemetry to retrain and improve your content.
Introduction to Microsoft’s Hadoop solution (HDInsight)James Serra
Did you know Microsoft provides a Hadoop Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)? It’s called Azure HDInsight and it deploys and provisions managed Apache Hadoop clusters in the cloud, providing a software framework designed to process, analyze, and report on big data with high reliability and availability. HDInsight uses the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Hadoop distribution that includes many Hadoop components such as HBase, Spark, Storm, Pig, Hive, and Mahout. Join me in this presentation as I talk about what Hadoop is, why deploy to the cloud, and Microsoft’s solution.
The data lake has become extremely popular, but there is still confusion on how it should be used. In this presentation I will cover common big data architectures that use the data lake, the characteristics and benefits of a data lake, and how it works in conjunction with a relational data warehouse. Then I’ll go into details on using Azure Data Lake Store Gen2 as your data lake, and various typical use cases of the data lake. As a bonus I’ll talk about how to organize a data lake and discuss the various products that can be used in a modern data warehouse.
Data Warehousing Trends, Best Practices, and Future OutlookJames Serra
Over the last decade, the 3Vs of data - Volume, Velocity & Variety has grown massively. The Big Data revolution has completely changed the way companies collect, analyze & store data. Advancements in cloud-based data warehousing technologies have empowered companies to fully leverage big data without heavy investments both in terms of time and resources. But, that doesn’t mean building and managing a cloud data warehouse isn’t accompanied by any challenges. From deciding on a service provider to the design architecture, deploying a data warehouse tailored to your business needs is a strenuous undertaking. Looking to deploy a data warehouse to scale your company’s data infrastructure or still on the fence? In this presentation you will gain insights into the current Data Warehousing trends, best practices, and future outlook. Learn how to build your data warehouse with the help of real-life use-cases and discussion on commonly faced challenges. In this session you will learn:
- Choosing the best solution - Data Lake vs. Data Warehouse vs. Data Mart
- Choosing the best Data Warehouse design methodologies: Data Vault vs. Kimball vs. Inmon
- Step by step approach to building an effective data warehouse architecture
- Common reasons for the failure of data warehouse implementations and how to avoid them
Choosing technologies for a big data solution in the cloudJames Serra
Has your company been building data warehouses for years using SQL Server? And are you now tasked with creating or moving your data warehouse to the cloud and modernizing it to support “Big Data”? What technologies and tools should use? That is what this presentation will help you answer. First we will cover what questions to ask concerning data (type, size, frequency), reporting, performance needs, on-prem vs cloud, staff technology skills, OSS requirements, cost, and MDM needs. Then we will show you common big data architecture solutions and help you to answer questions such as: Where do I store the data? Should I use a data lake? Do I still need a cube? What about Hadoop/NoSQL? Do I need the power of MPP? Should I build a "logical data warehouse"? What is this lambda architecture? Can I use Hadoop for my DW? Finally, we’ll show some architectures of real-world customer big data solutions. Come to this session to get started down the path to making the proper technology choices in moving to the cloud.
Overview of Microsoft Appliances: Scaling SQL Server to Hundreds of TerabytesJames Serra
Learn how SQL Server can scale to HUNDREDS of terabytes for BI solutions. This session will focus on Fast Track Solutions and Appliances, Reference Architectures, and Parallel Data Warehousing (PDW). Included will be performance numbers and lessons learned on a PDW implementation and how a successful BI solution was built on top of it using SSAS.
Differentiate Big Data vs Data Warehouse use cases for a cloud solutionJames Serra
It can be quite challenging keeping up with the frequent updates to the Microsoft products and understanding all their use cases and how all the products fit together. In this session we will differentiate the use cases for each of the Microsoft services, explaining and demonstrating what is good and what isn't, in order for you to position, design and deliver the proper adoption use cases for each with your customers. We will cover a wide range of products such as Databricks, SQL Data Warehouse, HDInsight, Azure Data Lake Analytics, Azure Data Lake Store, Blob storage, and AAS as well as high-level concepts such as when to use a data lake. We will also review the most common reference architectures (“patterns”) witnessed in customer adoption.
Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric (r2)James Serra
So many buzzwords of late: Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric. What do all these terms mean and how do they compare to a modern data warehouse? In this session I’ll cover all of them in detail and compare the pros and cons of each. They all may sound great in theory, but I'll dig into the concerns you need to be aware of before taking the plunge. I’ll also include use cases so you can see what approach will work best for your big data needs. And I'll discuss Microsoft version of the data mesh.
Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric (r1)James Serra
So many buzzwords of late: Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric. What do all these terms mean and how do they compare to a data warehouse? In this session I’ll cover all of them in detail and compare the pros and cons of each. I’ll include use cases so you can see what approach will work best for your big data needs.
ADV Slides: Platforming Your Data for Success – Databases, Hadoop, Managed Ha...DATAVERSITY
Thirty years is a long time for a technology foundation to be as active as relational databases. Are their replacements here? In this webinar, we say no.
Databases have not sat around while Hadoop emerged. The Hadoop era generated a ton of interest and confusion, but is it still relevant as organizations are deploying cloud storage like a kid in a candy store? We’ll discuss what platforms to use for what data. This is a critical decision that can dictate two to five times additional work effort if it’s a bad fit.
Drop the herd mentality. In reality, there is no “one size fits all” right now. We need to make our platform decisions amidst this backdrop.
This webinar will distinguish these analytic deployment options and help you platform 2020 and beyond for success.
Enterprise Data World 2018 - Building Cloud Self-Service Analytical SolutionDmitry Anoshin
This session will cover building the modern Data Warehouse by migration from the traditional DW platform into the cloud, using Amazon Redshift and Cloud ETL Matillion in order to provide Self-Service BI for the business audience. This topic will cover the technical migration path of DW with PL/SQL ETL to the Amazon Redshift via Matillion ETL, with a detailed comparison of modern ETL tools. Moreover, this talk will be focusing on working backward through the process, i.e. starting from the business audience and their needs that drive changes in the old DW. Finally, this talk will cover the idea of self-service BI, and the author will share a step-by-step plan for building an efficient self-service environment using modern BI platform Tableau.
Develop a Custom Data Solution Architecture with NorthBayAmazon Web Services
Organizations that have vast amounts of data in legacy applications often experience difficulties delivering that data to business unit end-users. Register to learn how Eliza Corporation and Scholastic overcame this challenge by leveraging a Data Lake solution from NorthBay on AWS to optimize data analytics and provide greater visibility. AWS and NorthBay will give you an in-depth overview of how you can use a Data Lake in conjunction with your existing on-premises or cloud-based Data Warehouse. NorthBay helps organizations scale their ETL and data warehousing workloads using Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift. Join us to learn: • Best practices for using a Data Lake in conjunction with your existing data warehouse • The key aspects of introducing agile and scrum methodologies into an enterprise • The most impactful cost-savings levers that are addressed via a cloud data warehouse migration
Who should attend: Heads of Analytics, Heads of BI, Analytics Managers, BI Teams, Senior Analysts
ADV Slides: When and How Data Lakes Fit into a Modern Data ArchitectureDATAVERSITY
Whether to take data ingestion cycles off the ETL tool and the data warehouse or to facilitate competitive Data Science and building algorithms in the organization, the data lake – a place for unmodeled and vast data – will be provisioned widely in 2020.
Though it doesn’t have to be complicated, the data lake has a few key design points that are critical, and it does need to follow some principles for success. Avoid building the data swamp, but not the data lake! The tool ecosystem is building up around the data lake and soon many will have a robust lake and data warehouse. We will discuss policy to keep them straight, send data to its best platform, and keep users’ confidence up in their data platforms.
Data lakes will be built in cloud object storage. We’ll discuss the options there as well.
Get this data point for your data lake journey.
Geek Sync | Deployment and Management of Complex Azure EnvironmentsIDERA Software
You can watch the replay of this Geek Sync webinar in the IDERA Resource Center: http://ow.ly/pg7N50A4svf.
Today's data management professional is finding their landscape changing. They have multiple database platforms to manage, multi-OS environments and everyone wants it now.
Join IDERA and Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman as she discusses the power of auto deployment in Azure when faced with complex environments and tips to increase the knowledge you need at the speed of light. Kellyn will cover scripting basics, advanced Portal features, opportunities to lessen the learning curve and how multi-platform and tier doesn't have to mean multi-cloud.
Attendees can expect to learn how to build automation scripts efficiently, even if you have little scripting experience, and how to work with Azure automation deployments. This session will allow you to begin building a repository of multi-platform development scripts to use as needed.
About Kellyn: Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman is a member of the Oak Table Network and an IDERA ACE and Oracle ACE Director alumnus. She is the newest Technical Solution Professional in Power BI with AI in the EdTech group at Microsoft. Kellyn is known for her extensive work with multi-database platforms, DevOps, cloud migrations, virtualization, visualizations, scripting, environment optimization tuning, automation, and architecture design. She has spoken at numerous technical conferences for Oracle, Big Data, DevOps, Testing and SQL Server. Her blog, http://dbakevlar.com and social media activity under her handle, DBAKevlar is well respected for her insight and content.
Using OBIEE and Data Vault to Virtualize Your BI Environment: An Agile ApproachKent Graziano
First we interview the users, then we design a reporting model based on those interviews. We follow that up with mounds of ETL development to load the new model, basically keeping the user community in the dark during all that development. Does this sound familiar?
This presentation will demonstrate an alternative approach using the Data Vault Data Modeling technique to build a flexible, easily-extensible “Foundation” layer in our data warehouse with an Agile, iterative methodology. Relying on the Business Model and Mapping (BMM) functionality of OBIEE, we can rapidly virtualize a dimensional reporting model using the pattern-based Data Vault Foundation layer to decrease the time, and money, it takes to get BI content in front of end users. Attendees will see a sample Data Vault model designed iteratively and deployed to the semantic model of OBIEE.
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance is a new flavor of Azure SQL Database that is a game changer. It offers near-complete SQL Server compatibility and network isolation to easily lift and shift databases to Azure (you can literally backup an on-premise database and restore it into a Azure SQL Database Managed Instance). Think of it as an enhancement to Azure SQL Database that is built on the same PaaS infrastructure and maintains all it's features (i.e. active geo-replication, high availability, automatic backups, database advisor, threat detection, intelligent insights, vulnerability assessment, etc) but adds support for databases up to 35TB, VNET, SQL Agent, cross-database querying, replication, etc. So, you can migrate your databases from on-prem to Azure with very little migration effort which is a big improvement from the current Singleton or Elastic Pool flavors which can require substantial changes.
This are my keynote slides from SQL Saturday Oregon 2023 on AI and the Intersection of AI, Machine Learning and Economnic Challenges as a Technical Specialist
This is the second session of the learning pathway at PASS Summit 2019, which is still a stand alone session to teach you how to write proper Linux BASH scripts
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
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2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
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Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
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Taming the shrew, Optimizing Power BI Options
1. Taming of the Shrew
Tricks to Optimizing Power BI
Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman
TSP, Power BI and AI in Education
2. Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman
Technical Solution Professional at Microsoft, Data Platform in Power BI
and AI
• Former Technical Intelligence Manager, Delphix
• Multi-platform DBA, (Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, Sybase, PostgreSQL,
Informix…)
• Oracle ACE Director, (Alumni)
• OakTable Network Member
• Idera ACE Alumni 2018
• STEM education with Raspberry Pi and Python, including DevOxx4Kids,
Oracle Education Foundation andTechGirls
• Former President, Rocky Mtn Oracle User Group
• Current President, Denver SQL Server User Group
• Linux and DevOps author, instructor and presenter.
• Blogger, (http://dbakevlar.com)Twitter: @DBAKevlar
3. Gaining just 10% more access to data
can result in over $65 million in
revenue
4. User Chooses to Refresh
Report
User Gets in Car
To Get Cup of Coffee
In Next Town
While Waiting for
Refresh
User Needs Updated
Information
from Power BI Report
Our User Story
5. Relational Data
Oracle, SQL Server,
Teradata, Salesforce
Cloud Data
Azure, AWS, Google
Other Data
Excel, Access,
Sharepoint, etc.
MODEL & SERVE
Azure Analysis ServicesAzure SQL Data
Warehouse
Power BI
.
Power BISQL Server
Integration
Services
P O W E R B I L A N D S C A P E
Finding all the Fish in the Ocean
Data Factory
Big Data
DataLake,Hadoop,
Hortonworks
7. Relational Data
Oracle, SQL Server,
Teradata, Salesforce
Cloud Data
Azure, AWS, Google
Other Data
Excel, Access,
Sharepoint, etc.
MODEL & SERVE
Azure Analysis ServicesAzure SQL Data
Warehouse
Power BI
.
Power BISQL Server
Integration
Services
P O W E R B I L A N D S C A P E
Finding All The External Latency
Data Factory
Big Data
HD Insights,
DataLake,
Hortonworks
8. Coordinate pipeline acOPTIMIZATION EXERCISE PROCESS
Power BI
Layer
Bring
Data to
Network
Specialist
OnceVerified
Non-Issue
Network
Layer
OnceVerified
Non-issue
BringWait
Times to
Data
Specialist
Repeat and
verify
resolved
Inspect
Data Model
Data Sets
Power BI Review Steps:
Resources
Concurrency
Visuals and
Dashboards
Data Modeler
to Address
OnceVerified
Non-IssueData
Sources
Identify byType
and bring in
expertise for
each
10. • A scientific approach to optimization.
• Optimizing on cost, or assumptions does not guarantee results.
• Removes finger pointing and the “Blame Game”
• Simplifies the process of identifying real latency.
• When Time is Addressed, Long Term Resolution is Often
Experienced.
Why Time Should BeYour Main Focus for
Optimization
12. • Data sources can be relational, databases, big data, CSV/Excel,
structured/unstructured data files.
• If there are onsite or remote specialists available, partner to gather
distinct data to identify waits and patterns.
• Know, along with execution plans, tracing can assist in identifying
deeper and multi-tier issues that isn’t divulged in traditional
performance tools.
• Infrastructure tools, cloud monitoring tools and tracing can also
provide more information than traditional tools.
Steps for Optimizing Data Sources
13. RELATIONAL DATA
SOURCES
•Filter Early, Filter Often- before it
is pulled to Power BI
•Understand the optimizer and
plans for queries and performance
“gotchas” for different database
platforms
•Push calculated columns and
measures to the source where
possible – disperse resource age
for the object to the source.
•Add indices, partitioning, etc. to
support commonly queried tables
14. BIG DATA
•Use HD Insight and/or Azure Data
Factory to help manage sheer
quantity of data.
•Manage partitions and prune
unnecessary data regularly.
•Make a goal to migrate to
“pristine” data model from
unstructured data.
•Make yourself part of the
development process to be aware
of changes to what data is being
consumed.
•Have clear and concise list of what
data is important to the business
vs. what is collected.
15. ACCESS AND EXCEL/CSV
• Keep Excel sheets and Access tables that are
brought into Power BI narrow. Wider tables
perform poorer.
• Purge or archive off unused data from
Access, which can slow down refreshes.
• Convert derived values from formulas to
static values whenever possible. This
removes one conversion step when
importing/refreshing to Power BI
• Avoid multiple volatile functions and array
formulas in Excel. This is not the place for
these.
• Avoid linked tables with Access with split
database architecture.
• Consider the size of the data in regards to
refreshes and how it will impact Power BI
performance.
17. The Network – The Final Bottleneck
On-Premise data sources
SQL DB Managed Instance
SQL Server
VNET
Data User
Power BICloud data sources
Microsoft
SQL Server
Integration Services
Firewall is our best
friend and worst
enemy
18. NETWORK
• Networks are still limited by much of
“Shannon’s Law”
• Filter to deter from creating bottlenecks
on the network.
• Become friends with the network admin
to isolate issues with firewalls and
network bottlenecks.
• Consider how often refreshes are
performed and from where the data is
being sent from and to.
20. Columnar data store makes it forgiving of large data
sets.
But…Power BI is dependent upon the data that it
sources from, along with multiple other features.
Performance can be hindered by numerous items
Power BI is dependent upon:
• Data Model
• Data Size
• Resources Allocated for Processing
• DataTypes
22. POWER BI QUERY EDITOR
• Avoid complex queries in Query Editor,
combinations of filter with context
transition are some of the worst.
• Don’t use relative date filtering in the Query
Editor.
• Keep measures simple initially, adding
complexity incrementally.
• Avoid relationships on calculated columns
and unique identifier columns.
• Try setting “Assume Referential Integrity” on
relationships – this may improve query
performance.
• Ensure relationships are set up properly, use
new many to many sparingly.
23. As You Design Your Reports
Simplify Data
Demands
Whenever
Possible
Remove Unused
Columns
Avoid Distinct
counts on
fields with
High
Cardinality
Limit
Complexity on
High
Cardinality
Consider How
Often Data
Refresh is
Required
26. VISUALS
• Filter early and filter carefully.
• You may want to switch off interaction
between visuals – it reduces the query load
as users cross-highlight.
• Always test the impact of row-level security
roles that your users will use and
performance.
• To ensure long-running queries won’t
monopolize the system, there is a 225
second timeout on visuals. Design visuals
with as much simplicity as possible to avoid
this threshold.
27. • Eight MAX visuals in dashboard or
report
• Set filters in filter pane of reports.
• Understand where performance hits
are sourcing from
• Test and track refreshes over
time for reports and
dashboards – Don’t assume.
• Don’t build complicated
measures or aggregates at
the data model layer.
Tips for Dashboards
28. • NarrowTables are Faster
• Integers over strings, (text)
• Slicers use multiple steps, (queries) to process
• Use powerful DAX functions that can eliminate
complex or poor performing expressions.
• Certain filters can hinder performance if they examine
each row. Identify when this occurs.
• Simplify queries whenever possible
• Follow best practices for relationships for your data
model
• Add indexes and foreign keys whenever possible
Power BI Tips
29. Resource Constrictions Can Hinder
Performance:
• Consider increasing memory allocated for
data loads
• Up data cache for large processing.
• Monitor and alert on thresholds for
demands for enterprise reporting
Resource Constrictions Can Hinder
Performance, too!
30. Power BI uses premium memory when:
•Loading datasets*
•When refreshing a dataset, (scheduled and on-
demand)*
•Running report queries
•Poor performance can result if evicted due to LRU
runs into conflict.
*Remember that datasets in memory may be larger than when stored
on disk and not to confuse premium memory with Power BI Premium.
Gotchas With Published Reports
48. SUMMARY
• Remember to stay with the
process.
• Use time as the reason to
optimize.
• Use data, not assumptions.
• Use Power BI to analyze logs and
traces, just as you would other
data.
• Collaborate with the user to
identify what’s important to them,
too.
49. Thanks to
• Chris Webb for sharing test data and ideas.
• Brent Ozar for creating the sp_blitz data model
that offered the opportunity to optimize.
• The EDU group at Microsoft for offering a full
environment for me to build for testing, including
the cloud to work with on this presentation.