When we say: Data, bratwurst and beer, we are of course talking about DataGrillen. After more than 2 years of absence, it was time again in recent days, with speakers from all over the world with almost 50 sessions, good weather and a large group of participants, quite a bit of knowledge has been shared again. And as is traditional with this event, the first day will be finalized with a barbecue for all participants. The organization is in the hands of Ben and WIlliam and you can leave that up to them. Everything was well organized again. My session on Microsoft Purview was well attended, the slides can be found in the link below.
Last weekend I had the honor to speak at Data Saturday in Stockholm. About one of my favourite topics Azure Synapse Analytics. It was nice to see everyone in person again. The organization was well organized down to the last detail, Daniel thanks for that. Thanks to all the sponsors this event could happen.
Below you find my slides and in case you have questions left, do not hesitate to contact me.
Before you can start Authoring your workflows make sure you the correct user to the role assignment Workflow administrators, if you haven't done that correctly the option will be greyed out.
Azure Purview is localized in 18 languages. To change the language used, go to the Settings from the top bar and select the desired language from the dropdown.
Wednesday 9th of March the time had finally come, at 1830 my plane would leave for London City. After all the preparations over the past few weeks, the time was there. After arriving in London City and checking in at the hotel, I went straight to the Venue. Wednesday evening was dominated by Games and Burgers. But for me it's mainly about having a chat with many people. Wow that was a really long time since I'd seen some of them.
Volunteer
This year I volunteered for the first time. That means being at the site early every day at 7:30 AM. After we have had the briefing, each volunteer can take up his task. For me, these tasks mainly consisted of monitoring and moderating various sessions, so that the speaker can focus on his sessions and that any questions from the Virtual attendees could be passed on to the speaker. In addition to monitoring this session, you serve as a source of information and an example for visitors and you are part of the Orange Family.
Sessions
On Friday it was finally time to present my own sessions. I started the day with my session on:
Lake Database with Database Template and Mapping Data with Azure Synapse Analytics
Microsoft asked me to present me this session during SQL Bits in the Cloud Scale Analytics solution area. Once again thank you Tony and Wee Hyong for inviting me. The room was well filled and there were quite a few questions, which is always very nice as a speaker. One of the questions I didn't have the answer on was: If you use Power BI on a Lake Database, will the data be read via the Synapse SQL Serverless Pool or directly from the Data Lake. Reply: The data is read via the Synapse SQL Serverless Pool and the costs are also charged for this. A good question that I hadn't thought about beforehand.
Data Governance with Azure Purview - Ask the Experts
In this session, everyone had the opportunity to ask Victoria, Wolfgang, and me for all of their questions about Azure Purview. During the session we were helped by Richard, who moderated all the questions. We had received a decent set of questions in advance and also during the session many questions were asked by both the Virtual attendees and the in Person. All in all we have given good answers, got some great feedback. It was the first time that we did an Ask the Expert session and we said to each other that we should definitely do this more often.
Final Word
The Friday evening was traditionally closed with a theme party and some can empathize with that. I've seen the craziest costumes pass by. Saturday I attended sessions all day. We ended the day with the some and drinks in an Italian restaurant. Sunday was the day of departure, testing and checking in. I can look back on this event tired and satisfied. Once again a big compliment to the organisation, volunteers and speakers for organizing this fantastic event. See you next year.
And Sponsors thank you for making this event happening. Thank you
