Alex Powers
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From financial services to felines, the World Wide Web to professional wrestling - Alex Powers has an affinity for the conventional and unconventional when it comes to information. A self-proclaimed Microsoft Evangelist Alex Powers enjoys contributing to online forums and sharing his passion for empowering others using Microsoft products and services.
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Data Factory: Learn What’s New and Get from Zero to Hero in a Day
Join us for an immersive workshop designed to take you from zero to hero with Data Factory! This session is perfect for anyone looking to get up to speed with the latest product innovations in Data Factory. Throughout the day, you'll learn about the newest features and enhancements, and how they can help you streamline your data processes. Whether you're new to Data Factory or looking to deepen your knowledge, this workshop will provide you with the tools and insights needed to maximize your productivity and efficiency. Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your data skills and become a Data Factory expert in just one day!
A "M"ind Bending Experience: Custom Functions and Documentation in Power Query
This session will deep dive into the Power Query formula language / M to teach you how to get started with creating custom functions to aid in the reusability of transformation patterns and adding robust documentation to your Power Query queries.
The information from this session will be applicable to all places where the Power Query / Get data experience is found.
Data Factory in a Day with Microsoft Fabric
Join us for an interactive session where we dive into Dataflow Gen2 and Data Pipelines within Microsoft Fabric to unlock the full potential of data integration and transformation. Whether you’re a seasoned data professional or just starting out, this session promises actionable insights and practical knowledge.
Key Highlights:
1. Dataflow Gen2: Discover how familiarity meets efficiency as we harness the full power of authoring with Power Query. With fewer steps and quicker results, we’ll seamlessly create dataflows that scale with ease.
2. Data Pipeline: Learn how to combine activities for streamlined tasks. Data Pipelines orchestrate your data workflows, ensuring smooth execution and optimal resource utilization.
3. High-Scale Compute: Dive into the world of large-scale data processing. We’ll explore techniques to handle data at any scale, empowering you to tackle complex scenarios.
Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the future of data integration and to elevate your skills using Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric.
Data Factory in an Hour with Microsoft Fabric
In this session, we’ll showcase how Data Factory in Microsoft Fabric brings together the best of Power Query and Azure Data Factory into a modern data integration experience to ingest, prepare and transform data from a rich set of data sources (ex. Excel workbooks, SharePoint lists, databases, data warehouses, Lakehouses, and more) at any level and scale.
Whether you’re a citizen or professional developer, Data Factory has everything you need to create next-generation dataflows and data pipelines that can transform your business.
Building your first Power Query connector for Microsoft Fabric
In this session, we’ll dive into the world of developing custom connectors for Microsoft Fabric. Exploring how you can create your own connectors using the Power Query SDK to seamlessly integrate external data sources into Power BI, and other applications. This session will guide attendees through a step-by-step guide to creating a basic custom connector from scratch including defining the data source, establishing metadata, and setting up authentication options.
Microsoft Fabric for Power BI users
In this session, you’ll learn how to bring your existing talents with Power BI into the age of data analytics for the era of AI. You’ll explore Data Factory for ingesting data, Lakehouses for flexibility with data warehousing analytics, and the groundbreaking Direct Lake dataset mode for analyzing very large data volumes in Power BI reports.
By the end, you’ll understand how to use Microsoft Fabric to create end-to-end solutions at limitless scales.
Query Folding in an Hour
Did you know you can drastically improve your Power BI dataset refresh times by leveraging Query Folding in Power Query? In this session you'll learn how to take your refresh times from minutes down to seconds for some huge wins and learn some of the "gotchas" that can happen along the way.
Calculated Columns: A Love-Hate Relationship
When transitioning from Excel to Power BI, it can be tempting to go all-in with calculated columns - in this session we'll cover all the do's, don'ts and pitfalls in Power BI and empower you with the design decisions that you should be considering.
Power BI Summit 2023 Sessionize Event
SQL Saturday Atlanta 2023 - BI & Data Analytics Sessionize Event
Power Platform Conference (Microsoft Content) Sessionize Event
Data Insight Summit Sessionize Event
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