Category: Azure
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We are currently experiencing a generational surge in AI use cases and transformation. But will AI be able to connect directly to your raw data, perform all the necessary transformations, apply business-friendly names to fields, and add accurate logic to solutions? Does data engineering and architecture still matter? The video embedded at the bottom of…
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For many years, SQL Saturday conferences around the world have provided fantastic educational opportunities for professionals specializing in Microsoft tools such as Fabric, Power BI, and SQL Server. SQL Saturday Minnesota is coming up on September 27, 2025 and I was fortunately selected to be a presenter. I’ll be presenting on best practices for Fabric…
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I’ve been sharing insights on data technologies through blogs, videos, and podcasts for over 15 years. Over time, my content has been published across a variety of platforms, some of which have since become outdated or difficult to access. To make things simpler, I’ve created this new blog as a centralized hub where you can…
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Query Fabric Data Agents from Azure AI Foundry for Agentic Solutions One of the early criticisms of Large Language Models (LLMs) was an inability to do good math when answering questions. Newer LLMs can do great reasoning and mathematical tasks, but at a high compute cost and the query times can be slow. Microsoft Fabric…
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What if students and lifelong learners could have an AI chat bot simulating a historical figure for educational conversations? This video is a synthetic podcast using Microsoft Azure OpenAI and Azure AI text to speech to create an AI simulation of Benjamin Franklin in the form of a podcast. With Azure AI, tools exists for…
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Reposted from the Microsoft Healthcare & Life Sciences Blog at this link: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/healthcareandlifesciencesblog/azure-openai-chatgpt-solves-cryptic-error-codes-from-power-bi-sql-server-power-a/3803661 Are you tired of cryptic error message codes from your IT tools filled with GUIDS, seemingly random numbers, and vague text? Azure OpenAI ChatGPT can help! When tools such as Power BI, SQL Server, Power Apps, and others encounter problems the error…
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Connecting low code / no code tools to Machine Learning Models is often discussed but rarely implemented in the real world. The video above demonstrates near-real-time predictions in a Power App using Azure ML to make a presumptive medical diagnosis based on answers about symptoms entered by a user. Symptom data entered into a Power…
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The video embedded above is a virtual on-demand workshop that walks you through the process of building a simple Azure Data LakeHouse using real CDC National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) open data in about an hour. You can watch the workshop to learn about Azure Data LakeHouse architecture, or for a more hands-on experience…
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Reposted from the Microsoft Healthcare & Life Sciences Blog at this link: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/healthcareandlifesciencesblog/use-a-keyword-in-teams-chat-to-resume-and-pause-azure-synapse-using-power-automa/3073096 Recently I worked with a team having a requirement to send ad-hoc queries to an Azure Synapse Analytics database using front-end tools such as Power BI and Excel. Users would need to query Synapse periodically a few times a week without a…
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Reposted from the Microsoft Healthcare & Life Sciences Blog at this link: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/healthcareandlifesciencesblog/ingest-healthcare-open-data-into-azure-and-power-bi-using-new-github-repository/2278523 Numerous Government agencies make Healthcare Open Data available to the public at no cost. Data from the CDC, CMS, FDA, World Bank, US Census, USDA and many others provide rich sources of valuable data. These vast sources of robust and useful data…