
Explore modern data architecture on Microsoft Azure, covering cloud data warehousing, analytics fundamentals, and technologies like SQL database, data lake, Data Factory, Databricks, synaptic data warehouse, and Power BI.
Explore traditional data architecture from staging databases to the enterprise data warehouse, including consolidation database and the operational data store, with shared dimensions and data cleansing.
Apply microsoft’s azure architecture to ingest structured and unstructured data with azure databricks, build an edl to a data warehouse, and analyze with azure sql databases and power bi.
Log into the Azure portal, navigate the left nav and main screen to access resources and create items, and explore subscriptions and the 12-month free offer.
Create a data lake in Azure by provisioning a storage account and blob container in your resource group, then set up raw and staging folders for edl steps.
Set up a SQL Server on Azure, create a basic-tier server and database, load data with scripts into tables, and configure IP firewall to connect to a data lake.
Learn to automate data loads in Azure Data Factory by creating a daily trigger that runs a master job to load multiple tables, with scheduling and on-demand execution.
Configure and provision a Databricks environment in Azure, create clusters, workspaces, and notebooks, and learn cost-conscious deployment while preparing to load data from a data lake into a data warehouse.
Provision a Synapse SQL data warehouse on Azure, load data with Data Factory and Data Bricks, and create tables and external schema to enable scalable, massively parallel processing.
Explore loading data from a data lake into a SQL Server data warehouse using Databricks, notebooks, and a serverless cloud workflow, with end-to-end code and validation.
Connect to a SQL Server data warehouse with Power BI to preview the customer table. Illustrate end-to-end Azure data architecture with data lake, data factory, and a warehouse for reporting.
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A hands on walk through of a Modern Data Architecture using Microsoft Azure. For beginners and experienced business intelligence experts alike, learn the basic of navigating the Azure Portal to building an end to end solution of a modern data warehouse using popular technologies such as SQL Database, Data Lake, Data Factory, Data Bricks, Azure Synapse Data Warehouse and Power BI.