This years arcade-themed SQLBits is taking place between March 8th and 12th. I’ve been to SQLBits a number of times, it’s always great fun and I come away having learned a ton!

However, this year is a little different from me, as I’ll be presenting for the first time! I’m looking forward to it a lot, the last time I presented at a community event was on Azure Notebooks back in July 2018 (as seen in the banner image)!

Pre-Con: A Data Engineers Guide to Synapse Analytics

Alongside Simon Whiteley and Stijn Wynants, I’ll be presenting a full day of Synapse training on Tuesday the 8th of March!

It’ll be an action packed day covering:

• Fundamentals of a lake based data platform
• Patterns for ingesting data and orchestrating your data platform execution
• How SQL Serverless Pools work and patterns for optimising performance and cost
• Using Spark Pools to write dynamic workflows in Python
• Utilizing Data Explorer Pools for deep exploration of logs, time series and other fast-moving unstructured data sources
• Integrating Synapse directly with tools such as Azure Purview and CosmosDB

You can learn more from our sessionize page, or by watching our short promotional clip

Session: Synapse Data Flows - Will Citizen ETL Replace the Data Engineer?

As well as the pre-con, I’ll be presenting my own much shorter 20-minute session on Synapse Data Flows on Saturday the 12th of March, taking a look at how they measure up when compared to bespoke-built data platform. What’s the pipeline reusibility like? How well can you clean and standardize your data? What are they good at, and what are they bad at?

You can learn more from my sessionize page.

Other sessions to look out for

Advancing Analytics will be at SQLBits in force. All together, we’re presenting 3 full day pre-conference training days and 11 general sessions! Find out what we’ll be presenting about and when via the Advancing Analytics blog.

The full conference agenda can be found here.