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Month: June 2024

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Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on July 1st (Commenting Power Query with Azure OpenAI)

Atlanta BI fans, please join us in person for the next meeting on Monday, July 1st at 6:30 PM ET. John Kerski (Microsoft MVP) will shows us how to integrate ChatGPT with Power BI. Your humble correspondent will help you catch up on Microsoft BI latest. CloudStaff.ai will sponsor the event. For more details and sign up, visit our group page. Details Presentation: Commenting Power Query…

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Prologika Newsletter Summer 2024

I’ve written in the past about the dangers of blindly following “modern” data architectures (see the “Are you modern yet?” and “Data Lakehouse: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”) but a recent assessment inspired to me write about this topic again. This newsletter advocates a hybrid and cautionary approach for data integration to avoid overdoing data lakes and warns about pitfalls of over-staging source…

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Fabric Analytics Engineer Certification Snagged

Just passed DP-600 and therefore I'm officially a Fabric Analytics Engineer. Besides renewals, I intend this to be my last Microsoft certification. After more than 30 years of certifying (12 certifications and 30 exams) and helping other certify with training and books, I think it's time to close this chapter. Call me certifiable...

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Modern Data Warehouse (MDM) Reloaded

"Where are the prophets, where are the visionaries, where are the poets To breach the dawn of the sentimental mercenary" "Fugazi", Marillion I’ve written in the past about the dangers of blindly following “modern” data architectures (see my posts “Are you modern yet?” and “Data Lakehouse: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”) but here we go again. Once upon a time, a large company…

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