www.jamesserra.com Open in urlscan Pro
67.222.38.97  Public Scan

Form analysis
3 forms found in the DOM

GET https://www.jamesserra.com/

<form role="search" method="get" class="search-form" action="https://www.jamesserra.com/">
  <label for="search-form-1">
    <span class="screen-reader-text">Search for:</span>
    <input type="search" id="search-form-1" class="search-field" placeholder="Search for:" value="" name="s">
  </label>
  <button type="submit" class="search-submit"><span class="genericon genericon-search"></span></button>
</form>

GET https://www.jamesserra.com/

<form role="search" method="get" class="search-form" action="https://www.jamesserra.com/">
  <label for="search-form-2">
    <span class="screen-reader-text">Search for:</span>
    <input type="search" id="search-form-2" class="search-field" placeholder="Search for:" value="" name="s">
  </label>
  <button type="submit" class="search-submit"><span class="genericon genericon-search"></span></button>
</form>

POST #

<form action="#" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" id="subscribe-blog-blog_subscription-4">
  <div id="subscribe-text">
    <p>Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.</p>
  </div>
  <div class="jetpack-subscribe-count">
    <p> Join 3,427 other subscribers </p>
  </div>
  <p id="subscribe-email">
    <label id="jetpack-subscribe-label" class="screen-reader-text" for="subscribe-field-blog_subscription-4"> Email Address </label>
    <input type="email" name="email" required="required" value="" id="subscribe-field-blog_subscription-4" placeholder="Email Address">
  </p>
  <p id="subscribe-submit">
    <input type="hidden" name="action" value="subscribe">
    <input type="hidden" name="source" value="http://www.jamesserra.com/">
    <input type="hidden" name="sub-type" value="widget">
    <input type="hidden" name="redirect_fragment" value="subscribe-blog-blog_subscription-4">
    <button type="submit" class="wp-block-button__link" name="jetpack_subscriptions_widget"> Subscribe </button>
  </p>
</form>

Text Content

↓
 


JAVASCRIPT IS DISABLED. Please enable JavaScript on your browser to best view
this site.


JAMES SERRA'S BLOG

Search for:


BIG DATA AND DATA WAREHOUSING




 * Home
 * FAQ
 * Presentations
 * About Me
 * Consulting
 * Contact Me




Home 1 2 3 … 30 31 >>



POST NAVIGATION

← Older posts




POWER BI CONNECTORS TO AZURE SYNAPSE

James Serra's Blog Posted on May 13, 2022 by James SerraMay 16, 2022

When using Power BI and pulling data from Azure Synapse, you will use the “Get
Data” feature in Power BI. There are now three connections that you can use that
I will cover in this blog. But first, a review … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure Synapse Analytics/SQL DW, Power BI, SQLServerPedia Syndication |
Leave a reply



POWER BI PERFORMANCE FEATURES

James Serra's Blog Posted on April 25, 2022 by James SerraApril 25, 2022

It’s hard to believe but Power BI has now been available for over 10 years (see
history)! Over the last few years there have been a number of new features to
improve the performance of queries for dashboards and reports, … Continue
reading →

Posted in Azure Synapse Analytics/SQL DW, Power BI, SQLServerPedia Syndication |
Leave a reply



AZURE IOT CENTRAL

James Serra's Blog Posted on March 31, 2022 by James SerraMarch 31, 2022

This is a short blog to give you a high-level overview on a product called Azure
IoT Central. I saw this fairly new Azure product (GA Sept 2018) in use for the
first time at a large manufacturing company who … Continue reading →

Posted in IoT, SQLServerPedia Syndication | 1 Reply



AZURE SYNAPSE AND DELTA LAKE

James Serra's Blog Posted on March 2, 2022 by James SerraApril 20, 2022

Many companies are seeing the value in collecting data to help them make better
business decisions. When building a solution in Azure to collect the data,
nearly everyone is using a data lake. A majority of those are also using …
Continue reading →

Posted in Azure Synapse Analytics/SQL DW, Data Lake, Delta Lake, SQLServerPedia
Syndication | 13 Replies



DATA LAKEHOUSE, DATA MESH, AND DATA FABRIC 

James Serra's Blog Posted on February 8, 2022 by James SerraFebruary 8, 2022

(NOTE: I have returned to Microsoft and am working as a Solution Architect in
Microsoft Industry Solutions, formally known as Microsoft Consulting Services
(MCS), where I help customers build solutions on Azure. Contact your Microsoft
account executive for more info. … Continue reading →

Posted in Data Lake, Data Mesh, Data warehouse, SQLServerPedia Syndication | 7
Replies



MICROSOFT INDUSTRY CLOUDS

James Serra's Blog Posted on January 18, 2022 by James SerraFebruary 2, 2022

In talking with Microsoft customers, I have found that most are not aware that
Microsoft has created industry clouds (see Microsoft Industry Clouds). So I
wanted to use this blog to briefly explain what they are and how they may …
Continue reading →

Posted in SQLServerPedia Syndication | 1 Reply



DISTRIBUTED SQL

James Serra's Blog Posted on December 29, 2021 by James SerraDecember 29, 2021

A very brief history of databases for online transaction processing (OLTP)
workloads starts with relational databases (RDBMS), which worked well for many
years. With the advent of the internet and the need for millions of transactions
per second, NoSQL filled that … Continue reading →

Posted in SQLServerPedia Syndication | 4 Replies



AZURE SYNAPSE ANALYTICS NOVEMBER UPDATES

James Serra's Blog Posted on December 9, 2021 by James SerraDecember 10, 2021

Microsoft recently came out with a blog on a bunch of new features available for
Azure Synapse Analytics (see Azure Synapse Analytics November 2021 Update), and
I wanted to point out my top ten personal favorites: Synapse Data Explorer now …
Continue reading →

Posted in Azure Synapse Analytics/SQL DW, Data Lake, Delta Lake, SQLServerPedia
Syndication | 1 Reply



AZURE SYNAPSE ANALYTICS DATABASE TEMPLATES

James Serra's Blog Posted on November 22, 2021 by James SerraNovember 22, 2021

One of the biggest announcements at Microsoft Ignite that seemed to be
overlooked by a lot of people was Azure Synapse Analytics database templates,
now in public preview. I wanted to dive into it a bit in this blog because …
Continue reading →

Posted in Azure Synapse Analytics/SQL DW, Data Lake, SQLServerPedia Syndication
| 3 Replies



MICROSOFT IGNITE ANNOUNCEMENTS NOV 2021

James Serra's Blog Posted on November 3, 2021 by James SerraNovember 8, 2021

Microsoft Ignite has always announced many new products and new product
features, and this year was no exception. Many exciting announcements, and below
I list the major data platform and AI related announcements: SQL Server 2022: A
new version of SQL … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse Analytics/SQL DW,
SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication | 4 Replies



AZURE PURVIEW IS GENERALLY AVAILABLE

James Serra's Blog Posted on October 5, 2021 by James SerraOctober 4, 2021

After a very long public preview (9 months), Azure Purview is finally generally
available (GA). I described Purview in a previous blog (New Microsoft data
governance product: Azure Purview). In short, Purview’s main purpose is to
collect metadata from various … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure Purview, SQLServerPedia Syndication | 1 Reply



DATA PLATFORM PRODUCTS FOR MICROSOFT GAPS

James Serra's Blog Posted on September 22, 2021 by James SerraOctober 13, 2021

Microsoft has a ton of data platform-related products, but there are certain
areas where they either don’t have a product or what they have is limited and
you need to look at a 3rd-party product to fill that gap. At … Continue reading
→

Posted in SQLServerPedia Syndication | 11 Replies



SINGLE-CLOUD VERSUS MULTI-CLOUD

James Serra's Blog Posted on August 26, 2021 by James SerraNovember 22, 2021

A discussion I have seen many companies have is if they should be single-cloud
(using only one cloud company) or multi-cloud (using more than one cloud
company). The three major Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) that companies use for
nearly all … Continue reading →

Posted in Cloud, SQLServerPedia Syndication | 8 Replies



PODCAST AND PRESENTATION DECKS ON DATA ARCHITECTURES

James Serra's Blog Posted on August 9, 2021 by James SerraAugust 13, 2021

Tomorrow (Tuesday (8/10/21) I will be on a podcast for SaxonGlobal called “The
Alphabet Soup of Data Architectures” where I will talk about the modern data
warehouse, data fabric, data lakehouse, data mesh, and more. I hope you can
check … Continue reading →

Posted in Data Mesh, Data warehouse, Podcast, Presentation, SQLServerPedia
Syndication | 1 Reply



DATA MESH: CENTRALIZED OWNERSHIP VS DECENTRALIZED OWNERSHIP

James Serra's Blog Posted on July 23, 2021 by James SerraAugust 20, 2021

I have done a ton of research lately on Data Mesh (see the excellent Building a
successful Data Mesh – More than just a technology initiative for more details),
and have some concerns about the paradigm shift it requires. My … Continue
reading →

Posted in Data Mesh, SQLServerPedia Syndication | 9 Replies



DATA MESH: CENTRALIZED VS DECENTRALIZED DATA ARCHITECTURE

James Serra's Blog Posted on June 30, 2021 by James SerraJuly 22, 2021

One of the biggest differences between the Data Mesh and other data platform
architectures is a data mesh is a highly decentralized distributed data
architecture as opposed to a centralized monolithic data architecture based on a
data warehouse and/or a … Continue reading →

Posted in Data Lake, Data Mesh, Data warehouse, SQLServerPedia Syndication | 8
Replies



DATA FABRIC DEFINED

James Serra's Blog Posted on June 9, 2021 by James SerraJuly 21, 2021

Another buzzword that you may have been hearing a lot about lately is Data
Fabric. In short, a data fabric is a single environment consisting of a unified
architecture with services and technologies running on it that architecture that
helps … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure Data Lake, Data Lake, Data Mesh, Data warehouse, SQLServerPedia
Syndication | 51 Replies



WHAT’S NEW WITH POWER BI?

James Serra's Blog Posted on May 17, 2021 by James SerraMay 16, 2021

At the Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2021, a ton of new features for
Power BI where announced. Below is my list of top ten new features, but there
were plenty more. For a list of all the announcements, see Microsoft … Continue
reading →

Posted in Power BI, SQLServerPedia Syndication | 4 Replies



MODERN DATA WAREHOUSE EXPLAINED

James Serra's Blog Posted on April 27, 2021 by James SerraApril 26, 2021

I created a short YouTube video (20 minutes) that is a whiteboarding session
that describes the five stages (ingest, store, transform, model, visualize) that
make up a modern data warehouse (MDW) and the Azure products that you can use
for … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure Synapse Analytics/SQL DW, Data Lake, Data warehouse,
SQLServerPedia Syndication, Videos | 3 Replies



MODERN DATA WAREHOUSE & REVERSE ETL

James Serra's Blog Posted on April 12, 2021 by James SerraApril 11, 2021

An extension to the Modern Data Warehouse (MDW) that I have heard a bit about
lately is called “Reverse ETL”. Before I describe what that is, first I wanted
to give a quick review of a typical MDW, which consists … Continue reading →

Posted in Data warehouse, SQLServerPedia Syndication | 7 Replies



POST NAVIGATION

← Older posts




Search for:


ABOUT JAMES SERRA

I work at Microsoft as a big data and data warehousing solution architect where
I have been for most of the last eight years.  Prior to that I was an
independent consultant working as a Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence
architect and developer. I am a prior SQL Server MVP with over 35 years of IT
experience. The views and opinions on this blog are mine and not that of
Microsoft.


FOLLOW ME!

 * LinkedIn
 * Twitter
 * Email
 * SlideShare


SUBSCRIBE TO BLOG VIA EMAIL

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of
new posts by email.

Join 3,427 other subscribers

Email Address

Subscribe


RECENT POSTS

 * Power BI connectors to Azure Synapse
 * Power BI Performance Features
 * Azure IoT Central
 * Azure Synapse and Delta Lake
 * Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric 
 * Microsoft industry clouds
 * Distributed SQL
 * Azure Synapse Analytics November updates
 * Azure Synapse Analytics database templates
 * Microsoft Ignite Announcements Nov 2021
 * Azure Purview is generally available
 * Data Platform products for Microsoft gaps
 * Single-cloud versus Multi-cloud
 * Podcast and presentation decks on data architectures
 * Data Mesh: Centralized ownership vs decentralized ownership
 * Data Mesh: Centralized vs decentralized data architecture
 * Data Fabric defined
 * What’s new with Power BI?
 * Modern Data Warehouse explained
 * Modern Data Warehouse & Reverse ETL


RECENT COMMENTS

 * The Way forward for the Trendy Knowledge Stack in 2022 – Atlan – Floryup on
   Data Mesh defined
 * The Future of the Modern Data Stack in 2022 – Atlan | Technophoney on Data
   Mesh defined
 * The Future of the Modern Data Stack in 2022 – Atlan – Apk Know on Data Mesh
   defined
 * Data mesh vs data fabric: What's the difference? – Analytics India Magazine -
   AI Caosuo on Data Fabric defined
 * Data mesh vs data fabric: What’s the difference? - KiT Crackers on Data
   Fabric defined


TOP POSTS & PAGES

 * Azure Synapse and Delta Lake
 * Databricks Delta Lake
 * What is Polyglot Persistence?
 * Factless fact table
 * Data Mesh: Centralized vs decentralized data architecture
 * Data Mesh defined
 * Relational databases vs Non-relational databases
 * External tables vs T-SQL views on files in a data lake
 * Power BI connectors to Azure Synapse
 * Why You Need a Data Warehouse


ARCHIVES

 * May 2022 (1)
 * April 2022 (1)
 * March 2022 (2)
 * February 2022 (1)
 * January 2022 (1)
 * December 2021 (2)
 * November 2021 (2)
 * October 2021 (1)
 * September 2021 (1)
 * August 2021 (2)
 * July 2021 (1)
 * June 2021 (2)
 * May 2021 (1)
 * April 2021 (2)
 * March 2021 (3)
 * February 2021 (1)
 * January 2021 (2)
 * December 2020 (4)
 * November 2020 (2)
 * October 2020 (2)
 * September 2020 (4)
 * August 2020 (2)
 * July 2020 (2)
 * June 2020 (2)
 * May 2020 (4)
 * April 2020 (2)
 * March 2020 (3)
 * February 2020 (1)
 * January 2020 (2)
 * December 2019 (3)
 * November 2019 (2)
 * October 2019 (1)
 * September 2019 (1)
 * August 2019 (2)
 * July 2019 (3)
 * June 2019 (2)
 * May 2019 (1)
 * April 2019 (2)
 * March 2019 (2)
 * February 2019 (1)
 * January 2019 (2)
 * December 2018 (1)
 * November 2018 (2)
 * October 2018 (2)
 * September 2018 (2)
 * August 2018 (3)
 * July 2018 (3)
 * June 2018 (3)
 * May 2018 (3)
 * April 2018 (3)
 * March 2018 (4)
 * February 2018 (4)
 * January 2018 (1)
 * December 2017 (1)
 * November 2017 (3)
 * October 2017 (4)
 * September 2017 (2)
 * August 2017 (4)
 * July 2017 (2)
 * June 2017 (4)
 * May 2017 (4)
 * April 2017 (3)
 * March 2017 (6)
 * February 2017 (1)
 * January 2017 (2)
 * December 2016 (4)
 * November 2016 (8)
 * October 2016 (3)
 * September 2016 (3)
 * August 2016 (4)
 * July 2016 (3)
 * June 2016 (2)
 * May 2016 (5)
 * April 2016 (4)
 * March 2016 (5)
 * February 2016 (5)
 * January 2016 (2)
 * December 2015 (2)
 * November 2015 (1)
 * October 2015 (1)
 * September 2015 (2)
 * August 2015 (3)
 * July 2015 (3)
 * June 2015 (1)
 * May 2015 (5)
 * April 2015 (2)
 * March 2015 (1)
 * February 2015 (5)
 * January 2015 (2)
 * December 2014 (2)
 * November 2014 (4)
 * October 2014 (2)
 * September 2014 (1)
 * August 2014 (3)
 * July 2014 (2)
 * June 2014 (1)
 * May 2014 (6)
 * April 2014 (3)
 * March 2014 (6)
 * February 2014 (8)
 * January 2014 (7)
 * December 2013 (8)
 * November 2013 (8)
 * October 2013 (10)
 * September 2013 (10)
 * August 2013 (12)
 * July 2013 (9)
 * June 2013 (10)
 * May 2013 (10)
 * April 2013 (10)
 * March 2013 (10)
 * February 2013 (10)
 * January 2013 (8)
 * December 2012 (10)
 * November 2012 (11)
 * October 2012 (10)
 * September 2012 (9)
 * August 2012 (4)
 * July 2012 (9)
 * June 2012 (7)
 * May 2012 (6)
 * April 2012 (10)
 * March 2012 (15)
 * February 2012 (14)
 * January 2012 (13)
 * December 2011 (12)
 * November 2011 (12)
 * October 2011 (14)
 * September 2011 (14)
 * August 2011 (15)
 * July 2011 (15)
 * June 2011 (20)
 * May 2011 (13)
 * April 2011 (3)


CATEGORIES

 * Active Directory
 * Antivirus
 * Appliance
 * Azure
 * Azure Analysis Services
 * Azure Arc
 * Azure Cosmos DB
 * Azure Data Factory
 * Azure Data Lake
 * Azure Data Lake Analytics
 * Azure Databricks
 * Azure Purview
 * Azure SQL Database
 * Azure Stack
 * Azure Synapse Analytics/SQL DW
 * Big Data
 * BISM
 * Blob Storage
 * Blog
 * Business Intelligence
 * Career
 * Certification
 * Cloud
 * Columnstore indexes
 * Consulting
 * Cortana Intelligence Suite
 * Data Lake
 * Data Mesh
 * Data warehouse
 * Database Migration Service
 * DataOps
 * DAX
 * Delta Lake
 * Dimensions
 * DNS
 * DQS
 * ETL
 * Excel
 * Fast Track
 * Fuzzy Lookup
 * Hadoop
 * HDInsight
 * Introduction
 * IoT
 * KPI
 * MDS/MDM
 * MDX
 * Microsoft
 * PASS
 * PDW/APS
 * PerformancePoint
 * Podcast
 * PolyBase
 * Power BI
 * Power Map
 * Power Pivot
 * Power Query
 * Power View/Project Crescent
 * Presentation
 * ProClarity
 * Quick Tip
 * Report Builder
 * Security
 * Session
 * SharePoint
 * SharePoint 2013
 * SQL Server
 * SQL Server 2012
 * SQL Server 2014
 * SQL Server 2016
 * SQL Server 2017
 * SQL Server 2019
 * SQLServerPedia Syndication
 * SSAS
 * SSDT/Juneau
 * SSIS
 * SSMS
 * SSRS
 * Tabular
 * Team Foundation Server
 * Tools
 * Training
 * Videos
 * Virtualization
 * Visio
 * Visual Studio 2008
 * Visual Studio 2010
 * Visual Studio 2012
 * Visual Studio 2013
 * Visual Studio vNext
 * White Paper
 * Windows 8


FAVORITE BLOGS

Chris Webb
Paul Randal
Brent Ozar
Mark Tabladillo
Marco Russo
James Beresford
Boyan Penev
Devin Knight
Thomas LaRock
Denny Lee
Thomas Kejser
Alberto Ferrari
Garrett Edmondson
Sean McCall
Dan English
Sal De Lorea
Jamie Thomson
Bill Anton



META

 * Log in
 * Entries feed
 * Comments feed
 * WordPress.org


I’M A TOP 10 SQL SERVER BLOGGER OF 2018


I’M A FORMER SQL SERVER MVP


I’M A ROCKSTAR BLOGGER



©2022 - James Serra's Blog - Weaver Xtreme Theme





↑