{"id":6883,"date":"2020-08-04T11:05:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T09:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/?p=6883"},"modified":"2020-08-04T11:05:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T09:05:45","slug":"james-serra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wdw\/sidfc\/james-serra\/","title":{"rendered":"James Serra"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Data &amp; AI architect at Microsoft, USA<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">James Serra is a big data and data warehousing solution architect at Microsoft. He is a thought leader in the use and application of Big Data and advanced analytics. Previously, James was an independent consultant working as a Data Warehouse\/Business Intelligence architect and developer. He is a prior SQL Server MVP with over 35 years of IT experience. James is a popular blogger (JamesSerra.com) and speaker. He is the author of the book \u201cReporting with Microsoft SQL Server 2012\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Session: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Azure Synapse Analytics: A Data Lakehouse<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Azure Synapse Analytics is Azure SQL Data Warehouse evolved: a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics into a single service. It gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources, at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate business intelligence and machine learning needs. In this presentation, I&#8217;ll talk about the new products and features that make up Azure Synapse Analytics and how it fits in a modern data warehouse, as well as provide demonstrations.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Learning outcomes:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Know the use case of Azure Synapse<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Know enough to get started with hands-on<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Know the major features<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to use it in a modern data warehouse<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Additional information and Smart Industry &amp; Digital Factory Technology Conference programme \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sidftc.com\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">here<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data &amp; AI architect at Microsoft, USA James Serra is a big data and data warehousing solution architect at Microsoft. He is a thought leader in the use and application of Big Data and advanced analytics. Previously, James was an independent consultant working as a Data Warehouse\/Business Intelligence architect and developer. He is a prior &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[292,272],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}