Azure SQL

Azure SQL

Azure SQL is the term used to refer to the family of SQL database services, hosted on Azure, underpinned by the Microsoft SQL Server database engine. Microsoft provides several Azure SQL deployment options that provide varying levels of control and flexibility to meet different customer needs.

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DP-201: Designing an Azure Data Solution - Exam Prep

DP-201: Designing an Azure Data Solution - Exam Prep

A collection of resources, study notes, and learning material that helped me, and can hopefully help others, prepare for and pass exam DP-201: Designing an Azure Data Solution. Note: Passing DP-201 is one out of two steps required to become a Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer, you must pass both DP-200 and DP-201.

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DP-200: Implementing an Azure Data Solution - Exam Prep

DP-200: Implementing an Azure Data Solution - Exam Prep

A collection of resources, study notes, and learning material that helped me, and can hopefully help others, prepare for and pass exam DP-200: Implementing an Azure Data Solution. Note: Passing DP-200 is one out of two steps required to become a Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer, you must pass both DP-200 and DP-201.

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Form Recognizer

Form Recognizer

Form Recognizer is an AI powered document extraction service. An extension to the Vision family of Azure Cognitive Services, Form Recnogizer is able to extract key-value pairs and table data from documents by training a custom model off of a small training data set.

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Azure Databricks

Azure Databricks

Databricks is an Apache Spark based analytics platform available as a first party service on Azure. Optimised for Microsoft’s various cloud services, Azure Databricks integrates deeply with Azure Active Directory, Azure Data Services, Power BI and more.

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Azure IoT Central

Azure IoT Central

Azure IoT Central is a fully managed SaaS (software-as-a-service) offering, that aims to lower the barrier of entry by abstracting much of the complexity and technical debt, typically required to deploy and manage an IoT solution in the enterprise.

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Embedded Analytics with Power BI

Embedded Analytics with Power BI

Supercharge your apps by delivering insights directly to where your users are! Power BI Embedded enables ISVs and application developers to embed analytical content (dashboards, reports and visualisations) directly within an app.

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Image Processing with Cognitive Services

Image Processing with Cognitive Services

By tapping into the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities of Microsoft’s Computer Vision API (part of the Cognitive Services suite), I will show how you can extract text from images.

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Upsert to Azure SQL DB with Azure Data Factory

Upsert to Azure SQL DB with Azure Data Factory

Copy data from Table Storage to an Azure SQL Database with Azure Data Factory, by invoking a stored procedure within the SQL sink to alter the default behaviour from append only to UPSERT (update / insert). 

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React in Real-Time with Azure Event Grid

React in Real-Time with Azure Event Grid

Azure Event Grid is a fully managed, event routing service that provides a uniform approach to event consumption via the publish-subscribe model. Learn how you can enable event driven solutions to react in real-time.

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