Another great year at SQL Saturday Atlanta! I can’t emphasize enough how important community is. We are not meant to live alone! Community conferences like these always remind me of how much we have to offer one another and how much we can learn from one another. Here’s a few takeaways from the day:
- I’m late to the Semantic Link and Semantic Link labs party! Jason Romans gave a great presentation on getting started with these tools in Fabric. I see many immediate use cases to implement this for documentation, but I can already imagine this will become an important tool in my toolbelt.
- Attended a session on metadata driven pipelines in Fabric – a bit over my head, but that’s why I attended. Mike Diehl laid out some really interesting ideas though on how to build pipelines that don’t require column mappings making them very flexible. I’m somewhat familiar with the concept but his practical examples will help me implement these concepts in my work. I’m looking forward to taking a look at his notebooks further!
- Microsoft Purview is a beast. I’d wondered if this may be a good tool to implement in my day job. Maybe, but not yet. Glad I attended some sessions that covered how this tool works because implementing this now would cause the rest of my beard to turn gray!
Thank you to everyone who attended mine and Mark Walter’s session on CALCULATE and evaluation context! Slides are posted below:
