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Arshad Ali
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Arshad Ali

Arshad Ali is a principal product manager at Microsoft, working on the Microsoft Fabric product team in Redmond, WA. He focuses on Spark Runtime, which empowers both data engineering and data science experiences. In his previous role, he helped strategic customers and partners adopt Azure Synapse and Microsoft Fabric. Arshad has more than 20 years of industry experience and has been with Microsoft for over 16 years. He is the co-author of the book Big Data Analytics with Azure HDInsight and the author of over 200 technical articles and blogs on data and analytics. Arshad holds an MBA from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington and an MCA from India.
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Bradley Schacht
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Bradley Schacht

Bradley Schacht is a principal program manager on the Microsoft Fabric product team based in Saint Augustine, Florida. Bradley is a former consultant and trainer and has co-authored five books on SQL Server and Power BI. As a member of the Microsoft Fabric product team, Bradley works directly with customers to solve some of their most complex data problems and helps shape the future of Microsoft Fabric. Bradley gives back to the community by speaking at events, such as the PASS Summit, SQL Saturday, Code Camp, and user groups across the country, including locally at the Jacksonville SQL Server User Group (JSSUG). He is a contributor on SQLServerCentral and blogs on his personal site, BradleySchacht.
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Data Warehouse

Businesses rely on a single version of truth to operate effectively and the tool of choice for data-driven organizations around the globe has long been the data warehouse. Names such as Ralph Kimball and Bill Inmon are synonymous with design patterns, and Kimball’s The Data Warehouse Toolkit could be found on the desk of just about any BI developer in the 2010s. While the technology has changed and the lakehouse is becoming more popular, the value of a data warehouse remains and companies are embarking on new warehouse projects every day.

The decision between a data warehouse and a lakehouse in Fabric is largely one of skillset rather than technology. Data Factory ETL tooling, Power BI datasets, SQL, and Spark all work seamlessly over both lakehouses and warehouses, and they both deliver massive scale and high performance. The primary difference comes down to the skillset: Spark for lakehouses versus T-SQL for data warehouses.

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Published in: Feb 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781835082287

Authors (2)

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Arshad Ali

Arshad Ali is a principal product manager at Microsoft, working on the Microsoft Fabric product team in Redmond, WA. He focuses on Spark Runtime, which empowers both data engineering and data science experiences. In his previous role, he helped strategic customers and partners adopt Azure Synapse and Microsoft Fabric. Arshad has more than 20 years of industry experience and has been with Microsoft for over 16 years. He is the co-author of the book Big Data Analytics with Azure HDInsight and the author of over 200 technical articles and blogs on data and analytics. Arshad holds an MBA from the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington and an MCA from India.
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Bradley Schacht

Bradley Schacht is a principal program manager on the Microsoft Fabric product team based in Saint Augustine, Florida. Bradley is a former consultant and trainer and has co-authored five books on SQL Server and Power BI. As a member of the Microsoft Fabric product team, Bradley works directly with customers to solve some of their most complex data problems and helps shape the future of Microsoft Fabric. Bradley gives back to the community by speaking at events, such as the PASS Summit, SQL Saturday, Code Camp, and user groups across the country, including locally at the Jacksonville SQL Server User Group (JSSUG). He is a contributor on SQLServerCentral and blogs on his personal site, BradleySchacht.
Read more about Bradley Schacht