Austin Libal
Corporate Trainer for Pragmatic Works
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
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Austin is a Jacksonville native who graduated from The Baptist College of Florida in 2012. Austin is a data engineering trainer for businesses and individuals across the world in Microsoft Azure Services, T-SQL, and the Microsoft Power Platform. Specifically focusing on training data analysts, engineers, and scientists on Azure Synapse Analytics and teaching the best practices for data integration, enterprise data warehousing, and big data analytics.
Austin previously spent 14 years in the swimming pool retail and service industry as a manager, leader, and trainer for a small team that monitored maintained 500+ pools for safety and cleanliness. He also oversaw the repairs and installations of pool equipment involving plumbing, electrical, automation, and internet technology implementation. Austin also was responsible for customer service, communication, and billing for the company’s service clients.
Austin has shown that he has subject matter expertise in designing cloud and hybrid solutions that run on Microsoft Azure by becoming a Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect through his completion of the AZ-305 exam. Other certifications include, AZ-400, AZ-104, AZ-900, DP-900, and PL-300.
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Navigating the Journey: From On-Premises SQL Server to the Azure Cloud
This session will go in detail on how to move from legacy products like SQL server, SSIS, SSAS to make the transition to a Microsoft cloud based product like Azure Data Factory or Azure Synapse Analytics. Topics covered would include using serverless SQL On-Demand to write SQL against files in the data lake, using pipelines to replace SSIS, and using data flows to move and transform data with Spark.
The Big Data Fixer-Upper: How Delta Lake Turns Data Swamps into Sparkling Data Lakes
Have you been hearing all of the new buzzword terms for big data? Data lake, delta lake, data lakehouse. Let's break down the barriers and show how managing a data lakehouse with delta using Spark can be easier than you might think for working with big data scenarios inside of the cloud. Delta brings reliability and governance to a data lake, find out how!
Embracing the Power of Pagination: A Guide to Transforming your Reports
Are you considering moving from SSRS to the Power BI Report Builder tool? This session will focus on using the Power BI Report Builder tool, how to create a printable, pixel perfect report, and also discuss the limitations of using the Power BI Desktop tool to create printable reports. There will also be a discussion around the Power BI service and sharing paginated reports internally within your organization using the Power BI service.
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