Introduction to Azure Data Lake Store - Does it replace the Data Warehouse?
I have made a video on Azure Data Lake and Azure Data Lake Store and published in YouTube. This video explains What is Azure Data Lake, Its Characteristics, Components of it, How it works, Usage,...
View ArticleIntroduction to Azure Data Lake Analytics - and basics of U-SQL
I made another video on Azure Data Lake, specifically on Azure Data Lake Analytics. This is a 40-minutes video and it discusses following items along with demonstrations;What is Azure Data Lake...
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Azure Data Factory V2 - Copying On-Premise SQL Server data to Azure Data Lake...
Azure Data Factory has been enhanced significantly with V2 and its support on Cloud-ETL-and-ELT is excellent now. First version of it was not much user-friendly but now it is not that difficult to...
View ArticleAzure Data Factory V2 - Creating a Pipeline using Author-Tab
Here is another video on Azure Data Factory V2. This video explains how to create a Pipeline manually, using Author-Tab. This video discusses and demonstrates;How to create Linked Services manuallyHow...
View ArticleAzure Data Factory V2 - Lookup and ForEach Activities
Here is my third video on Azure Data Factory. This video discusses and demonstrates;Why we need iteration in ETLsLookup ActivityForEach ActivityDemo: Iterating over a data collection using ForEach...
View ArticleAzure Data Lake Analytics - Accessing External Data Sources with USQL
This video discusses the way of accessing external data sources such as Azure SQL Database with USQL as external data sets. It explains why we need it, what objects should be created for accessing...
View ArticleCreating Paginated Reports with Power BI
Here is a video on Power BI Paginated reports. This videos discusses/demonstrates;What is a paginated report?Power BI support on paginated reportsPower BI configuration for paginated reportsCreating a...
View ArticleAzure Databricks - What, Why & How - YouTube Video
Here is the first video on Azure Databricks. This talks about;Why we need to Azure Databricks for processing dataWhat is Azure DatabricksDemo: How to provision an Azure Databricks workspace, a...
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Power BI App for seeing Coronavirus - COVID-19 updates in Sri Lanka
Here is an Azure site built for showing updates related to Coronavirus - COVID-19, specifically for Sri Lanka. This has been designed using Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Database, Power BI and Azure...
View ArticleAutomating Resume and Pause of Azure Analysis Services - YouTube Video
This video discusses how to automate starting and stopping Azure Analysis Services using Azure Automation Account. Following are demonstrated;Create Azure Automation AccountImport libraries...
View ArticleData Science with SQL Server Machine Learning Services - YouTube Video
This video discusses performing data science experiments in SQL Server using Python. Setting up the environment, training, storing models and consuming trained models stored in the database are...
View ArticleSending Emails from Azure SQL Database - YouTube Video
This video focuses on sending emails for operations related to Azure SQL databases. Following are discussed and demonstrated;Possibilities of tracking changes in Azure SQL Database for sending...
View ArticleAzure Databricks - Accessing Data Lake - Using a Service Principal
This video discusses the ways of accessing Azure Data Lake Gen 2 in Azure Databricks, specifically using a Service Principal. Following are discussed in detail; Ways of accessing Azure Data Lake Gen...
View ArticleAzure Databricks - Accessing Data Lake using Azure Active Directory Credentials
This video discusses the way of accessing Azure Data Lake Gen 2 through Azure Databricks, using Azure Active Directory Credentials. Following are discussed; Ways of Accessing ADLS Gen 2Enabling Azure...
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Coronavirus (Covid-19) Dashboard solution with Power BI
If you are interested in #covid-19 statistics, check this #dashboard out. This has been developed using #powerbi, #azuresqldatabase and #azuredatafactory. http://coronavirusexplorer.com/
View ArticleAzure Data Factory - Accessing a Databricks Notebook with Input and Output...
This video shows the way of accessing Azure Databricks Notebooks through Azure Data Factory. Additionally, it explains how to pass values to the Notebook as parameters and how to get the returned value...
View ArticleAzure Databricks – Enabling Databricks CLI for Azure Portal and Windows
This video shows the way of installing and configuring Azure Databricks CLI for Azure Portal (Cloud Shell) and Windows.
View ArticlePower BI Desktop Model – Connect from SSMS and Export more than 30,000 rows
This video shows the way of connecting to Power BI Desktop Model from SQL Server Management Studio and using it for various operations. Additionally this shows how to get data saved into csv files...
View ArticleAzure Synapse Analytics - Part I
This video speaks about the latest in data warehousing and big data analytics: Azure Synapse Analytics. This is the first part of it and it explains; - The way we have been creating on-premise data...
View ArticleAzure Synapse Analytics - Part II - Hypersapce
*** This is the session I have done for Sri Lanka Data Community – Feb 2022 episode. This does not contain the entire event. With modern data solutions, where we see data warehousing and big data,...
View ArticleAzure Synapse Analytics - Part III - Serverless SQL Pool
Azure Synapse Serverless SQL Pool facilitates data exploration, transformations and data warehousing with multiple functionalities, allowing us to work with it using SQL. This video discusses how it...
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Real-time Streaming in Power BI - Push Dataset
This video discusses the way of showing stream data with Power BI visuals, specifically with Push Datasets. Here is the content: Types of streaming datasets supported by Power BIThe way of creating the...
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Unleashing Power BI in Jupyter Notebook - Embed and Create reports
This video discusses two things: Embedding Power BI report in Jupytor Notebook Creating Power BI report directly in Jupytor Notebook. Embedding Power BI is not something new, it was announced in May...
View ArticleUnderstanding and enabling Microsoft Fabric - [Video]
Want to know about Microsoft Fabric? Here is a video that speaks about Microsoft Fabric, what it offers and how you can start with a trial.
View ArticleMicrosoft Fabric creates a Warehouse automatically - Microsoft Fabric - III
Discover the power of Microsoft Fabric in automating data warehousing with our latest video, “Microsoft Fabric creates a Warehouse Automatically”. This informative video demonstrates how you can...
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