Retool + Fabric SQL: Building a HITL Review Workflow

Human in the loop is a critical design element often overlooked. We demonstrate some ways to keep apprised of what your AI workflows are doing (with or without you).

Duration: 120 min lunch and learn

The Overton Window Company - Full Stack

Explore development of a Fabric SQL Database, Reactive UI, business logic, and operational reporting to support a fictitious contracting company that installs energy efficient windows.

Real Estate Concierge - Love It or List It

A detailed analysis of the software development lifecycle that infused GenAI into the database and launched an MVP Data Product for realtors, homeowners, and contractors to facilitate tasks and projects to enhance, show, upgrade or flip a property.

Learning SQL (Can I get that in Excel?)

Using my Microsoft Fabric Demo environment, I will present on how to load, query, monitor, construct views, and report in PowerBI through Data Exploration and Excel embedded with shared queries and views.

Fabric Security & Governance: Purview, Lineage, and Catalogs

Explore how to manage data access, lineage, and classification using Microsoft Purview and OneLake Data Catalog.

Duration: 60 minute overview

Microsoft Fabric for Power BI Users

Intro to Fabric Workspaces with demos of loading, joining, querying, and reporting from Lakehouse and Warehouse

Duration: 90 minutes

Fabric Foundations: Lakehouse in Action

A guided tour of Microsoft Fabric’s Lakehouse architecture, showcasing ingestion, transformation, and reporting using real-world HR analytics examples.

Duration: 90 min

Word Up: Automating Docs with Azure SQL + Power Automate

Learn how to generate branded Word documents from Azure SQL using Power Automate and Office Scripts. Includes mail merge, templating, and dynamic content injection.

Duration: 60 min

Excel as a Live Dashboard: Operational Reporting from Fabric SQL

Build dynamic Excel dashboards that connect directly to Fabric SQL. Explore pivot tables, slicers, and real-time refresh for operations teams.

Duration: 60 min

Retool UI Masterclass: Building Admin Portals on Azure SQL

Design and deploy a Retool-based UI for managing project data. Covers forms, grids, filters, and secure CRUD operations.

Duration: 90 min

SSMS Deep Dive: Query Optimization & Metadata Discovery

Go beyond SELECT * — explore advanced T-SQL, CTEs, indexing, and metadata queries to accelerate development and validation.

Duration: 60 min

Fabric Pipelines: ETL/ELT for the Real World

Build and monitor Fabric Data Factory pipelines for HR, finance, or scheduling data. Includes parameterization, triggers, and error handling.

Duration: 90 min

Real-Time Intelligence: From Stream to Dashboard

Use Fabric Eventhouse and KQL to build real-time monitoring dashboards. Ideal for anomaly detection and operational alerting.

Duration: 75 min

Metadata-Driven Reporting: From Schema to Semantic Layer

Design reusable metadata schemas and validation matrices to drive consistent reporting across Power BI and Excel.

Duration: 60 min

Power BI + Fabric: Semantic Models for the Enterprise

Build a Power BI model on top of Fabric Lakehouse. Includes DAX, relationships, and workspace governance.

Duration: 90 min

Document Intelligence: Automating PDF Ingestion from Blob to SQL

Automate the extraction of structured data from PDFs using Azure AI Document Intelligence and store results in Azure SQL.

Duration: 90 min