Migrating your Data Warehouse from SQL Server to Azure Synapse Analytics – Pass Data Community Summit 2021

We had a great live presentation on November Friday 12th, 2021, at the Data Community Summit 2021. My colleague Gail Zhou, and I, presented a set of feature parities, capabilities and recommendations when migrating a Data Warehouse from SQL Server to Azure Synapse Analytics Provisioned Pool. We also went ahead and provided a hands-on demo on how to a assess the environment, as well as how to migrate objects and data from SQL Server.

If you attended the summit, you are able to download the contents after logging in. If you were not able to attend, you can leverage the contents from links below, instead.

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Peruvian Voting Data with PowerBI

It continues to be a controversial voting scenario for Peruvians, on the second round of voting between Pedro Castillo (far left) and Keiko Fujimori (far right). There have been allegations of fraud, though no tangible evidence has been provided yet.

ONPE, the National Office of Electoral Processes of Peru, has made the voting dataset public, for both 1st and 2nd rounds. That shows the level of transparency the entity is providing, to try mitigate disinformation.

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Microsoft Says there is nothing wrong with SQL Server 2008 R2

Over 3 weeks ago we solved the issue we were having with one  particular cluster node running SQL Server 2008 R2. We have been going back and forth with Microsoft to obtain an explanation on why the erratic behavior of the RDBMS engine.

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