Mark Pryce-Maher

Learn how to migrate data workloads into Microsoft Fabric Warehouse end to end. This session covers ingestion, transformation, and security modernization across a variety of source systems.

Discover AI in Fabric and how Copilot streamlines data tasks—from building pipelines to writing queries and reports. Explore chat-with-your-data experiences, Fabric data agents grounded in OneLake, and how Fabric IQ powers trusted, contextual, and actionable AI across your enterprise.

Microsoft Fabric’s Warehouse and SQL analytics endpoint have evolved rapidly—with capabilities that make SQL-first analytics faster, safer, and simpler to operate. In this session, you’ll see how the SQL analytics endpoint provides a read-only, T-SQL experience over Delta tables with support for...

Do you have to be experts like Bob Ward and Anna Hoffman to use SQL? What about Fabric? Why not both? Come join our experts from Microsoft in this entertaining and educational session where the worlds of SQL and Fabric come to together in way you never knew existed

Discover how Open Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric is revolutionizing data integration. This session begins with an overview of Mirroring in Fabric, laying the groundwork for understanding how this powerful feature streamlines data movement and synchronization. Then, we'll explore how Open Mirroring is a game changer, enabling organizations to create custom Mirroring solutions tailored to their unique needs. In this deep dive, you'll learn how Open Mirroring works, from its core architecture to the specifics of its file-handling mechanisms. We'll then walk through two practical examples: Mirroring Excel in Fabric – See how Excel files can seamlessly become part of your Fabric data landscape. Mirroring Synapse Dedicated SQL Pools in Fabric – Learn how to integrate and migrate your dedicated SQL pools effortlessly. By the end of this session, you'll have the knowledge and tools to leverage Open Mirroring, transforming how you handle data in Microsoft Fabric. Audience: Data engineers, solution architects, and developers looking to innovate with Microsoft Fabric.

Need a data warehouse? Just click a button and it's there. Load some data into a table and the stats are automatically up to date. Need an index? No, you don't because Microsoft Fabric delivers performance by default.​ While many of the day-to-day operational aspects of running your data...

Fabric Mirroring offers a game-changing way to bring your operational SQL Server data into Microsoft Fabric for near real-time analytics—without complex ETL pipelines. In this session, we’ll focus on mirroring from SQL Server 2016 through SQL Server 2022, with a look ahead to what's coming for...

Join Mark Pryce-Maher for an insightful session on leveraging the SQL database in Microsoft Fabric to transform your business. Microsoft Fabric is a unified data platform designed for the era of AI, integrating services such as Data Factory, Real Time Intelligence, Operational Databases,...

In this deep dive, you'll learn how Open Mirroring works, from its core architecture to the specifics of its file-handling mechanisms. We'll then walk through two practical examples:

Discover how Open Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric is revolutionizing data integration. This session begins with an overview of Mirroring in Fabric, laying the groundwork for understanding how this powerful feature streamlines data movement and synchronization.

Deep Dive into Data Warehousing in Microsoft Fabric. Explore the intricacies of Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, unraveling its capabilities and demonstrating effective strategies for its utilization.

In this full day workshop, we’ll cover the skills and tasks required for a career as a Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer and prepare you for the DP-600 Certification Exam.

Are you ready to become analytics superhero? Hesitate no more! Microsoft Fabric is out and building analytics solution cannot get any easier! If you believe that the best way to learn is to learn by example, join us! We will build a new green field analytical solution using new all-in-one Microsoft Fabric that covers everything from data movement to data science, Real-Time Analytics, and business intelligence. You will enjoy a highly integrated, end-to-end, and easy-to-use product that is designed to simplify your analytics needs. We will start off the day with an overview of Microsoft Fabric, set up the environment and explain the scenario for the day. There is no use of analytics solution if there is no data. So, we will show how data is stored in Fabric, how you can integrate existing data, or ingest data from different sources. Here we will create landing zone and integrate existing data without making another copy! Once data is in Microsoft Fabric OneLake, we will process it efficiently while demonstrating best practices. Data engineers are used to Spark so it will be our tool of choice in creating different layers while tackling all the things you need to know. During this part, you will learn how to incrementally load data and make sure your cleansing is done right and in an effective and dynamic way! Rest assured, SQL folks are not forgotten! We will show how you can access the same data using SQL! Of course, there is no using loading data without a serving layer for your business needs. We will show you how you can use Lakehouse & Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric focusing on performance! Finally, we will show you how to build Power BI report using new consumption method reading data directly from the lake, called DirectLake, skipping data engines. If you do not know where to start, don’t worry, during this day we will explain every step and how Fabric helps you get the job done. Also, we will share the best practices seen at most customers! After this day you will have a clear understanding of how Fabric works and what components you must use for you own top notch analytical solution! Fabric is brand new, so instead of throwing terminology here, we are inviting you to join us and become the analytics superhero!

On May 23, 3023, Microsoft unveiled its latest breakthrough - Microsoft Fabric, heralding a new era for the data world. But what is Fabric, and why is it critical for those engaged in Microsoft's data platform?

You have seen all the Fabric marketing? Now is your chance to ask all the technical questions and get them answered directly from members of the Microsoft Product Group.

In this training session you will build a full fletched green field Lakehouse architecture based on best practices! You will be guided by experts in the field to learn about the key components & how to build it in the most dynamic & performant way!

SQLBits' has brought members of the Azure Synapse Program Group to Wales to ask YOUR questions. Bring your questions for: Dedicated SQL Pools, Serverless SQL Pools, Spark Pools, Pipelines, Kusto and everything else Synapse related.

In this session we explore Azure Synapse Analytics, we will dive into this limitless analytics service and explore how it brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics.

This session will dive into how to successfully migrate to Azure Synapse, all the way from code conversion to enterprise grade developer tooling, with real customer examples for product and migration experts.