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"Synchronising Power BI to Metric Views with Tabular Editor's Semantic Bridge We were SO excited when Metric Views first appeared only to find a large swathe of our clients forced to make a decision - migrate from their existing BI tools or maintain two copies of their KPIs Obviously that's not acceptable so we set out to find a solution We've been working with Tabular Editor on the idea of a Semantic Bridge a universal translator that can scrape one semantic model and push it to another with the first release supporting Unity Catalog Metric Views and Power BI Semantic Models - but the future"
YouTube Link 2025-12-05T12:48Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Databricks Stored Procedures We've often heard SQL folks bemoaning the lack of Stored Procedures in Databricks and using it as a reason to avoid modernising their stack. Well wait no longer we now have full Stored Proc support in Databricks That doesn't mean we can just throw away years of good data engineering practice and fall back on the spaghetti stored procs of old; but if you're sat with a legacy warehouse and a need to migrate as fast as possible this should be a huge boost In this video Simon walks briefly through the idea of Databricks Stored Procedures some of the syntax and a"
YouTube Link 2025-09-04T14:14Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Databricks One - First look at the New Databricks Consumer UI Yesterday saw the public preview of Databricks One appear into many Databricks workspaces globally (and it's still rolling out across others). This was one of the announcements met with the most HYPE at the Data + AI Summit so it's interesting catching initial reactions. All up it's simply a cut-down UI that makes things glossy and simple for non-technical/business users. We're expecting a bunch more features in here but for the initial preview state that's it - but it's super easy very clear and requires zero config More docs"
YouTube Link 2025-09-19T16:40Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Data Science Moments - Graph Theory - Centrality Centrality measures are key algorithms in graph theory to identify nodes that play critical roles in a graph. This video will cover the three most popular centrality measures - Degree Closeness and Betweenness - and what they can tell you about your network. To find out how we can apply graph analytics or to see how Advancing Analytics use data science to help our clients visit our website - www.advancinganalytics.co.uk/data-science"
YouTube Link 2021-12-21T11:15Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Unity Catalog Metric Views - Why you should care about Databricks' new Semantic Models Semantic Models are all the rage and have been for over a decade. With Databrick's push around AI/BI a semantic model is a vital part of the puzzle to be taken seriously in analytics. That's exactly what Unity Catalog Metric Views are - semantic models that live inside Unity Catalog within Databricks rather than downstream BI Tools. pretty nifty In this video Simon quickly recaps how semantic models have evolved and how to think about them before taking a quick look at what a sample metric view as well as"
YouTube Link 2025-09-19T12:27Z 40.3K followers, 10.4K engagements

"Turbo-Charge your Agents with instant MCP in Databricks Anyone talking about agents these days is sure to mention MCP sooner or later and we've seen a whole host of people building their own MCP servers to expose their services to the agentic world - but that is SO [----]. MCP these days comes pre-canned just click a button and hook your agents up There are a growing number of Databricks services that can now be plumbed into your agents quicker than ever. In this video Simon and Gavi have a quick look at the MCP options in Databricks set up a demo agent with access to Unity Catalog functions"
YouTube Link 2026-01-12T11:12Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Build a Databricks Knowledge Assistant in less than [--] steps with Agent Bricks Advancing AI In this hands-on tutorial Gavi walks you through how to create a powerful AI assistant using Databricks Agent Bricks - without writing a single line of code. Whether you're a marketer developer or data enthusiast this video shows you how to connect your own knowledge base and deploy a smart agent in under [--] steps. 🔧 What Youll Learn: - How Agent Bricks simplifies agent creation - Setting up workflows and testing - Deploying your assistant to real-world use cases 💡 Perfect for anyone looking to build"
YouTube Link 2025-08-18T15:45Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Ask Me Anything: Data Governance in the Age of AI Data governance has transformed. It's now the lifeblood of the enterprise the engine for digital transformation and the core of effective AI. But how do you implement it successfully Join our interactive AMA to find out. Well cover: - The "Why": Moving beyond compliance to drive tangible business value and ROI. - The "How": Implementing the three pillars of People Processes and Technology. - The "What's Next": The critical link between data governance and AI governance. Come with your challenges and questions as we explore how to build a"
YouTube Link 2025-07-24T20:32Z 40.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Creating Your First Machine Learning Model in Azure Databricks Welcome to the Month of Azure Databricks presented by Advancing Analytics. In this video Terry takes you though the core parts of Spark ML and walks though an end-to-end example of creating a regression model in Spark ML Starting your first project with Azure Databricks Well get in touch https://www.advancinganalytics.co.uk/ You might be also interested in our other videos and blogs: The Blog of [--] Databricks Questions Part 1: https://www.advancinganalytics.co.uk/blog/databricks-blog-of-60-questions-1 The Blog of [--] Databricks"
YouTube Link 2019-08-03T23:15Z 35.5K followers, 11.9K engagements

"Bringing it all Together The Planning Pattern in AI Agents Advancing AI Agents - Ep [--] In the final episode of our AI Agent series we tie everything together and showcase how to build a fully functional agent using the planning pattern. Weve covered tool calling reflection and routing now it's time to orchestrate these components effectively. The planning pattern allows agents to break down complex tasks decide the best sequence of actions and execute them efficiently. Well demonstrate how this approach enhances decision-making and adaptability making AI agents more powerful and scalable."
YouTube Link 2025-03-21T13:57Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Dynamic Databricks Workflows - Advancing Spark Last week saw the General Availability of dynamic functionality for Databricks Workflows in the form of the parameterized ForEach activity but what does that mean And why should we care For a long time we've been using external orchestration tools whenever things had to be flexible metadata driven or simply at a large scale - but with these changes we have a cheap flexible way of achieving some pretty complex orchestration inside of Databricks itself In this video Simon looks at a quick pattern for running a medallion-style lake processing"
YouTube Link 2024-09-03T11:17Z 35.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Advancing Spark - Introduction to Databricks Marketplace Back in the Data + AI Summit [----] Databricks announced Databricks Marketplace - a place where you can register datasets then any one across the world can work directly with it either for free or at an agreed cost. This is a natural evolution on top of the open-source delta sharing protocol and a huge piece of many data strategies out in the wild. In this video Simon takes a look at the announcements opens up the Databricks Marketplace and gets working with some data in a VERY simple process Check out the Databricks Marketplace info"
YouTube Link 2023-05-03T11:33Z 38K followers, [----] engagements

"Creating Your First Azure Databricks Workspace Welcome to the Month of Azure Databricks presented by Advancing Analytics. In this video Simon takes you through setting up a new instance of Azure Databricks. He covers adding a new resource in Azure exploring the managed resource group and a quick look at the ARM template for deploying Azure Databricks. This is the first video in a month of videos looking at a load of key topics which will introduce you to Azure Databricks and associated tools. Starting your first project with Azure Databricks Well get in touch"
YouTube Link 2019-07-02T06:39Z 33.5K followers, 19K engagements

"Behind the Hype: Should you ever build a Data Vault in a Lakehouse The Data Vault methodology has seen huge success and uptake in the world of relational data analytics and has a hugely passionate base of practitioners who vouch for it's benefits. However there has recently been a pattern of companies lifting and shifting their existing data vaults into a Lakehouse architecture and my question is. should they In this video Simon shares his opinion as to why the benefits of Data Vault are targeted at issues with relational database systems that don't necessarily apply when we're in a Lakehouse"
YouTube Link 2022-10-27T09:13Z 35.4K followers, 24.9K engagements

"Advancing Spark - Azure Databricks News Apr - May [----] With Data + AI Summit [----] looming next week we thought we'd best get everyone up top speed with all the platform changes that have been coming into Databricks over the past two months Believe us there's a lot to get through In this video Simon whips through the release notes pulling out the ones that he thinks are going to see the biggest difference for Databricks users as well as a few gotchas to be aware of For the Databricks Release notes see: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/release-notes/product/2024/april"
YouTube Link 2024-06-06T19:05Z 33.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Using PySpark to Join DataFrames In Azure Databricks Welcome to the Month of Azure Databricks presented by Advancing Analytics. In this video Simon takes you though how to join DataFrames in Azure Databricks Starting your first project with Azure Databricks Well get in touch https://www.advancinganalytics.co.uk/ You might be also interested in our other videos and blogs: The Blog of [--] Databricks Questions Part 1: https://www.advancinganalytics.co.uk/blog/databricks-blog-of-60-questions-1 The Blog of [--] Databricks Questions Part 2:"
YouTube Link 2023-10-23T19:49Z 26.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Advancing Spark - Meet the new Databricks Assistant With recent advances in generative AI we've seen Co-Pilot style assistants cropping up everywhere and Databricks is no different There is a new Databricks Assistant that can answer questions write code diagnose errors and even explain the horrendous code those other consultants wrote In this video Simon enables the new assistant then takes it for a spin. As with any AI-powered coding there are some hazards and pitfalls to be aware of and techniques to improve the accuracy of your results Check out the announcement here:"
YouTube Link 2023-08-04T10:51Z 35.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Version Controlling Notebooks in Azure Databricks and Azure DevOps Welcome to the Month of Azure Databricks presented by Advancing Analytics. In this video Simon takes you though the basics of how to Version Control Notebooks in Git with Azure Devops. We look at how link a notebook with Azure DevOps how to see the notebook history and how to commit your changes to Git. Starting your first project with Azure Databricks Well get in touch https://www.advancinganalytics.co.uk/ You might be also interested in our other videos and blogs: The Blog of [--] Databricks Questions Part 1:"
YouTube Link 2023-10-24T19:08Z 26.5K followers, 14.4K engagements

"Advancing AI - Microsoft Build [----] AI Highlights Join us at @AdvancingAnalytics as we break down the most exciting AI announcements from Build [----] 🚀 Get ready for in-depth analysis expert insights and lively discussions as we distill the key news and what it means for the world of AI. 🤖✨ 00:00 Introduction 02:35 Azure AI Services - Private Chatbots 03:43 Azure AI Search - Higher RAG Capacity Vector and Hybrid Search Enhancements Additional Updates 05:56 Azure AI Studio - Advanced Features and Integrations 09:30 Azure OpenAI - GPT-4o Fine Tuning GPT-4 Assistants API Public Preview Whatsapp"
YouTube Link 2024-05-28T12:39Z 30.9K followers, [---] engagements

"Behind The Hype - Is Analytics Engineer a Real Job We've been hearing more and more about the "Analytics Engineer" pushed heavily be some vendors and often left without too much actual context. Many of the Analytics Engineer job descriptions simply explain things that BI Developers have been doing for years. so why do we need a new title In this video Simon looks at the history of data engineering via software engineering then applies that lens to Analytics to decide. Is "Analytics Engineer" a new concept or a new name for an old job The Advancing Analytics blog post can be found here:"
YouTube Link 2023-01-24T10:26Z 35.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Ask Me Anything: Data Products Curious about what makes a data product truly valuable Join Ust Oldfield and Simon Whiteley for an open 'Ask Me Anything' session where we'll unpack the real-world impact of data products: from strategy and design to delivery and adoption. Whether you're a product owner data scientist engineer or executive bring your questions and get practical insights into building data products that drive outcomes not just outputs"
YouTube Link 2025-06-27T02:04Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Data Science Moments - Introduction to Graph Graph Analytics is on the rise In fact Gartner predicts that by [----] graph technologies will be used in 80% of data and analytics innovations. So we introduce our new Graph Theory mini-series. In this video we start with an introduction to the graph data structure and it's many types. To find out how we can apply graph analytics or to see how Advancing Analytics use data science to help our clients visit our website - www.advancinganalytics.co.uk/data-science"
YouTube Link 2021-12-14T15:20Z 37.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Advancing Spark - What is Databricks Dolly In the past weeks we have seen an explosion in Generative AI from silicon valley startups new SaaS solutions ChatGPT-enabled Search and more. but one of the more surprising entrants to the AI arms race is Databricks themselves Databricks Dolly brings a much smaller open-source GPT model that can be fine-tuned to a whole variety of use cases. In this video Simon is joined once again by Gavi the AA Data Science maestro to talk about what Dolly means why it's different and how you could use it in your own business. We'll be digging further into Dolly"
YouTube Link 2023-10-23T06:43Z 26.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Advancing Spark - Getting Started with Databricks AutoML It can be daunting figuring out where to start when tackling a new data science project that's why we've seen a whole range of automated machine learning tools cropping up over the last few years. The offering from Databricks is fairly new coming out earlier this year but has some nice features that set it apart from the rest. In this video Simon invites Gavi a Principal Data Scientist with Advancing Analytics to give us an overview of Databricks AutoML and run through a quick first model. For more details around the AutoML offering -"
YouTube Link 2023-10-26T03:38Z 26.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Routing and Reflection Demo Advancing AI Agents - Ep [--] In under [--] minutes you can start building AI agents that route decisions and learn from experience 💡 In Episode [--] James gets hands-on showing you how to implement routing and reflection patterns using LangGraph on Databricks. These patterns help AI agents make smarter choiceswhether it's directing queries to the right tools or improving decisions based on past interactions. Routing Notebook: https://github.com/jaames-bentley/Advancing_AI/blob/fa1dff82a5cea92b656067dbbc1af57622be865d/agents/1.%20Routing.ipynb Reflection Notebook:"
YouTube Link 2025-02-28T12:30Z 40.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Breaking Down Barriers with Databricks Clean Rooms There are untold riches to be made by combining together novel datasets to create something truly new and insightful - but that data is usually held by another party and they don't want you to see the data itself so what can you do That's exactly what Databricks Clean Rooms are looking to solve - two parties can put data in an approved script is run then only the output can be shared. Suddenly a whole world of collaboration is de-risked and a world of opportunity is laid out before you In this video Simon walks through the process of setting"
YouTube Link 2025-03-20T15:21Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Ask Me Anything: Power BI Premium in Fabric Power BI Premium is evolving into Microsoft Fabric - bringing new capabilities across data engineering real-time analytics and AI. If youre curious about what that means for your team join our live Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Ust Oldfield Head of Analytics and Simon Whiteley our CTO"
YouTube Link 2025-05-15T22:14Z 40.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Advancing Fabric - A Quick Microsoft Fabric Tour So you've watched Microsoft Build you've seen the marketing slides maybe seen a few demo clips and heard lots about the various experiences and workloads available. but what does it actually look and feel like to use Fabric What are you going to see when you open up that box In this video Simon is joined by Craig Porteous our very own Chief Fabricator to help show us around our Microsoft Fabric. We'll see some of the workloads like Data Engineering and Data Warehousing and get a sense for how new objects like Lakehouses fit into the Power BI"
YouTube Link 2023-06-01T12:08Z 37.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Databricks News Oct-Nov [----] - Advancing Spark The Oct/Nov [----] period tells a story of consolidation & preparation - there are a huge number of updates lighting up new regions bringing serverless to full network compatibility fixing the underlying dependencies in their spark image and more We're also seeing a whole bunch of Databricks Assistant upgrades some more Mosaic AI features and a bunch of quality of life improvements too In this video Simon walks through the Azure Databricks release notes talking about the various features and what it means to us For the Databricks Release notes see:"
YouTube Link 2024-12-04T13:20Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Databricks News Feb [----] How are we this far into March already without talking about all of the things happening in February in Databricks We've finally gotten rid of SCIM for synching with Entra we've got vastly improved Agentic diagnostics with MLFlow Tracing we have a whole bunch of streaming and DLT improvements - there's loads going on In this video Simon walks through the Feb [----] updates picking out the gems and sharing which bits are exciting in our view As always make sure you check out the full release notes for your own cloud provider Azure ones are here:"
YouTube Link 2025-03-12T14:11Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"AI/BI Dashboards - July [----] Updates Ever heard someone say "You can't do real BI in Databricks" - we sure have and for a long time we agreed. There were a whole bunch of features missing that have been in mature BI tools for years and years - but when was the last time you sat down and tried out AI/BI Dashboards in anger The latest round of updates have dropped over the past few months fixes some of the biggest complaints around dashboarding in Databricks. You want easy cross-filtering drill-through reports and interactivity You've got it. You want colourful maps and more advanced visuals"
YouTube Link 2025-08-01T13:44Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Advancing Spark - Databricks Feature Store We've talked about the idea of feature stores and how they're used to help Data Science teams scale so it's about time we had a look at using one in anger. In this video Simon welcomes back Gavi our resident Data Science expert to walk us through an example Feature Engineering workflow saving the feature tables down to the store then pulling them into a model training workflow. For a step by step guide around getting started with Databricks Featurestore see Gavi's excellent blog over on the AA website:"
YouTube Link 2022-02-25T16:18Z 35.2K followers, [----] engagements

"Advancing Spark - Getting hands-on with Delta Cloning Last week we looked at the announcements for Databricks Runtime [---] and got all excited about the notes for Delta Cloning - but we had some really good questions raised about exactly what happens under the hood. So this week join Simon as he takes a bit of a dive into DEEP and SHALLOW cloning with Delta on Databricks. For more info on the Clone functionality and the other syntax available take a look at the notes here: https://docs.databricks.com/delta/delta-utility.html#clone-a-delta-table As always for more tasty blogs or info about our"
YouTube Link 2020-08-13T10:06Z 33.4K followers, [----] engagements

"How do AI Agents work Advancing AI Agents - Ep [--] In this bite-sized series we break down the core mechanics of agentic AIhow AI agents move beyond simple prompts to make real decisions using function calling routing planning and reflection. 🎬 Why Watch 🔹 10-minute beginner-friendly episodes 🚀 🔹 Cutting-edge AI insights & real-world demos 🔹 Actionable knowledgeapply these concepts immediately 🔥 Subscribe now and take your GenAI knowledge to the next level. The future of AI isnt just reactiveits agentic 💡"
YouTube Link 2025-02-21T16:00Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Microsoft Fabric Part [--] - the Lakehouse and Notebooks Part [--] of our MS Fabric series 🙌 Jordan looks at the Lakehouse and Notebooks how to store and modify your data in OneLake"
YouTube Link 2023-06-06T08:38Z 37.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Unlocking Strategic Value through Data Products - Advancing Innovation: Online Part of our Advancing Innovation: Online livestream Ust Oldfield our Head of Analytics talks through what data products are and how they can add huge amounts of value to your data strategy. More about us: https://www.advancinganalytics.co.uk/"
YouTube Link 2024-12-17T15:54Z 40.3K followers, [---] engagements

"AI Agents Meet the Real World Tool Calling with Live Internet Searches Advancing AI - Agents Ep [--] Watch as James supercharges AI agents with real-time internet access In under [--] minutes well show you how to integrate live web searches into your Databricks workflows transforming your agents into dynamic problem-solvers that pull the latest data prices news or researchno static datasets required. Learn to build tools that let your AI think with up-to-the-minute context bridging the gap between code and the ever-changing real world. Tools - web search Notebook:"
YouTube Link 2025-03-18T13:57Z 40.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Advancing Spark - Databricks In-Browser Interactive Debugger There have been a whole host of improvements for local development with Databricks via Spark Connect but sometimes it's just way easier to not have any local environment set up. Writing code in the browser has slowly been getting better but it still sometimes feels like writing blind - but with notebooks now having a full step-through interactive debugger things have just got a whole lot better In this video Simon takes some scrappy code and fixes it up using the trusty variable explorer and the new preview interactive debugger You"
YouTube Link 2024-04-16T08:07Z 35.3K followers, [----] engagements

"AA @ DAIS - Gavi's Thoughts on Databricks' MosaicML Acquisition It's day [--] We chatted to Gavi about the recent Databricks announcement of their acquisition of MosaicML and the exciting future ahead for Databricks. Music by QubeSounds from Pixabay"
YouTube Link 2023-06-28T14:08Z 36.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Advancing AI - Fine Tuning LLMs with Azure OpenAI With all the excitement around large language models one question has been repeatedly asked throughout - "How do I make my own". There are plenty of techniques to pass additional context and reference material into a generic pre-trained model but if you want a model that is super fast and already understands your context you need to fine-tune a model. We recently saw announcements from Microsoft that the Azure Open AI service now supports both training a fine-tuned model but also hosting that model at the click of a button In this video Simon"
YouTube Link 2023-10-27T14:14Z 33.5K followers, 10.1K engagements

"Advancing Spark - Row-Level Security and Dynamic Masking with Unity Catalog Filtering datasets based on the querying user has long been data governance nightmare with various tools having their own different approaches. With Databricks previously we had the is_member() function and a variety of custom view approaches but that all changes with the new secure table settings in Unity Catalog In this video Simon walks through the revamped Unity Catalog security demo looking at row level security shared approaches and dynamic column masking For more details on the approaches take a look at the"
YouTube Link 2023-09-13T13:33Z 33.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Advancing Fabric - Harness your Lakehouse with DirectLake & Power BI One of the coolest features the comes with Fabric is the new type of Power BI model that queries delta tables in your lake directly without the need for another compute engine to serve it up Direct lake comes with some huge benefits but there are also some limitations to be aware of In this video Simon and our Analytics Guru Johnny walk through setting up a DirectLake model editing models in Tabular Editor and walking through the development lifecycle. To learn more about DirectLake in Fabric hit the docs here:"
YouTube Link 2023-11-01T12:33Z 37.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Advancing Spark - Rethinking ETL with Databricks Autoloader Figuring out what data to load can be tricky. but Databricks have the answer The Databricks Autoloader function in Azure uses Event Grid too automatically ingest files as they land - rather than building out file-watching polling functionality manually. Join Simon as he runs through the setup of autoloader and looks at some different ways of using the tool. For more information about Autoloader - see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/spark/latest/structured-streaming/auto-loader Otherwise don't forget to subscribe"
YouTube Link 2023-10-16T20:48Z 26.6K followers, 23.7K engagements

"Advancing Fabric - Copilot Settings #copilot #microsoftfabric There was a load of great announcements at Microsoft Build last week but did you know Copilot is now enabled by default in Fabric Find out what settings you've got and some interesting caveats in Craig's video"
YouTube Link 2024-05-28T08:33Z 35.6K followers, [---] engagements

"Advancing Fabric - Private Endpoints & Private Link Some highly anticipated announcements dropped last week around secure connectivity to Microsoft Fabric We now have Managed Private Endpoints and Private Link for Microsoft Fabric in Public Preview. If you have an existing architecture in Azure thats secured with VNets and private endpoints you can now set up secure connectivity with Microsoft Fabric. Join Craig for a quick tour of the capabilities and what it means for hybrid architectures."
YouTube Link 2024-03-06T10:17Z 35.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Advancing Spark - DLT Updates & Enhanced Autoscaling It's been a while since we've visited Delta Live Tables and there are some really nice little quality of life UI improvements worth calling out we've also got formal release notes to keep track of things and most importantly a new scaling feature in Enhanced Autoscaling. In this video Simon walks through some of the DLT changes we've seen recently before digging into the new autoscaler and the differences we should expect to see. For details on Enhanced Autoscaling check out:"
YouTube Link 2023-01-27T16:44Z 35.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Ask Databricks - About Unity Catalog with Paul Roome Ask Databricks about Unity Catalog. What is it Why should you use it What are the best practices How do you use certain features How does it compare to other governance tools Whats coming next And more Ask Databricks goes beyond conventional webinars blogs videos and tutorials. This new collaborative endeavor taps into the collective knowledge and experience of Databricks experts and the broader community in a live conversational environment. It doesnt matter whether youre new to Databricks or a seasoned user with years of experience. All"
YouTube Link 2023-10-05T04:52Z 34.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Copilot ALL the things - Fabric [----] Round Up Advancing Fabric We're already deep into [----] but [----] was a BIG year for Microsoft Fabric. Here's Craig's favourite announcements from throughout [----] and what we're excited to see this year If you're just finding your feet in Fabric or want to get a good understanding of all aspects of Fabric we've just released our Fabric Foundations course: https://advancinganalytics.teachable.com/p/fabric-foundations"
YouTube Link 2025-02-03T17:16Z 40.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Creating a Trusted Data Platform - Advancing Innovation: Online Part of our Advancing Innovation: Online livestream Zach Stagers our Head of Data Engineering talks about the foundations being laid by a solid data platform how that creates trust and how that trust is carried forwards. More about us: https://www.advancinganalytics.co.uk/"
YouTube Link 2024-12-17T15:52Z 40.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Building a BakeOff Bot with Databricks Genie AI/BI Genie is now reaching a level of maturity where we can start using it in anger but we've only seen people scratching the surface of what Generative BI can do. Here we are faced with an unprecedented ability to connect with our users and we roll out the same old boring reports and datasets with some precanned questions If we're doing things right we've understood our user personas we've crafted a data product designed to solve their problems - why not build some personality and engagement into the tools we give them to work with In this video"
YouTube Link 2025-01-29T16:26Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"GenAI at Scale: Overcoming Roadblocks and Unlocking Results Generative AI has taken the business world by storm but moving from experimentation to production is where many organisations struggle. Issues like cost unpredictability governance scalability and operational complexity can stall even the most ambitious AI initiatives. Join us to understand the realities of deploying Generative AI in production. Well unpack the common roadblocks and showcase Gener8 a ready-to-deploy AI platform built on Azure. With pre-configured infrastructure built-in cost monitoring evaluation pipelines and"
YouTube Link 2025-04-30T08:22Z 40.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Azure Synapse Analytics - Spark Pools & Custom Python Wheels One of our most often requested videos is how you work with custom Python wheels within Azure Synapse Spark Pools Managing your code via wheels gives you a whole load of control and reusability of your functions - its a fantastic way to keep track of who's using which version too In this video Simon runs through the process of encapsulating some code as a reusable function building it into a wheel file and uploading that wheel to a Synapse Spark pool More information about managing spark pools & their associated libraries can be"
YouTube Link 2020-10-16T13:15Z 33.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Data Engineering is Dead (Or How We Can Use AI to Avoid It.) Last week Simon gave a talk at SQLBits a Data Conference in the UK outlining some of the recent product announcements and how we as Data Engineers can get ahead of the game as AI swamps the industry. Now whilst the people in the room enjoyed the talk it sparked a fair bit of outrage in the LinkedIn influencer camps - some of that's fair some of it just needs context so in this video Simon lays out the core messages of his talk for all to see. If you still disagree that's fine but lets all have a bit of context Maybe this vision of a"
YouTube Link 2025-06-24T13:32Z 40.3K followers, 12.5K engagements

"Understanding GenAI Trends and their Real-World Value - Advancing Innovation: Online Part of our Advancing Innovation: Online livestream our Head of AI Gavi Regunath talks about how understanding Gen AI trends and applying them are two different things - and how them can be applied in real-world scenarios. More about us: https://www.advancinganalytics.co.uk/"
YouTube Link 2024-12-17T15:53Z 40.3K followers, [---] engagements

"The Whys of Managed Iceberg with Databricks With the acquisition of Tabular last year we've all been waiting to see where Databricks go with Iceberg. Well the answer is finally here - you can now create Managed Unity Catalog tables as Delta or as Iceberg the choice is yours. But. why would you In this video interview Simon sits down with Johnathan Brito and Denny Lee of Databricks to talk through the new release and ask all the questions that come to mind Why would you Who is this for What are the considerations What does this mean for Delta And what is the future of Uniform All this and"
YouTube Link 2025-04-30T10:25Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Creating a Connection to Azure Data Lake Gen [--] with Azure Databricks Welcome to the Month of Azure Databricks presented by Advancing Analytics. In this video Terry takes you through how to create a connection to Azure Data Lake Gen [--] with PySpark. Starting your first project with Azure Databricks Well get in touch https://www.advancinganalytics.co.uk/ You might be also interested in our other videos and blogs: The Blog of [--] Databricks Questions Part 1: https://www.advancinganalytics.co.uk/blog/databricks-blog-of-60-questions-1 The Blog of [--] Databricks Questions Part 2:"
YouTube Link 2019-07-11T13:01Z 35.5K followers, 25.8K engagements

"Advancing AI - Beginners Guide to MLflow Unlock the power of MLflow within Databricks now easier than ever Effortlessly track and log your experiments with AutoLogging and seamlessly manage your models using the MLflow Registry now integrated with Unity Catalog. MLOps Gym - Beginners Guide to MLflow: https://community.databricks.com/t5/technical-blog/mlops-gym-beginners-guide-to-mlflow/ba-p/62593 Connect with Gavi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavitaregunath/ Connect with Sepi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sepideh-ebrahimi-47537279/ Advancing AI - Intro to MLOps Gym:"
YouTube Link 2024-04-15T10:30Z 35.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Advancing Spark - Data Engineering Announcements from Data & AI Summit [----] Last night was the kick-off of the Data + AI Summit [----] US Edition and we had a huge number of features announced - so many that it's a haze of slides & buzz that's hard to navigate Don't worry Simon has you covered with a roundup of the major Data Engineering announcements from the opening Keynote From Delta Lake [---] Delta Sharing Delta Live Tables Unity Catalog & the new updates to the Photon engine If you haven't already we thoroughly recommend checking out the keynote here -"
YouTube Link 2021-05-27T09:58Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Databricks Apps First Look - Advancing Spark We're always talking about lightweight apps - little pieces of interactive user experience that sit between our intended users and our giant piles of code but it's often lumped into pure software development or hosted via an array of third party tools. The past couple of years have seen a boom in lightweight UI frameworks that can be hosted directly within your platforms removing a lot of the complexity whilst still giving users an interactive experience and that's exactly what Databricks Apps are all about. In this video Simon takes a look at the"
YouTube Link 2024-11-19T11:22Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Bringing the Semantics to Databricks Metric Views It's only been a week since we last looked at Metric Views in Databricks but already they're getting better. When giving users access to slice dice and explore data it can be hard to guide them to look at the right things to pre-empt how they phrase things or even to present the data in the right way - that's what semantic tags are all about: Clarity and Context. In this video Simon takes a look at the new semantic tags in Metric Views walks through the AI-Powered YAML builder and helps put it in context just how you can work with the new"
YouTube Link 2025-10-10T10:33Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Advancing Spark - Setting up Databricks Unity Catalog Environments Unity Catalog is a huge part of Databrick's platform if you're currently using Databricks but you don't have UC enabled you're going to be missing out on some pretty huge features in the future But where do you start Do you really need a Global AD Admin and how what do they have to do How do you manage dev test and prod if they all have to share the same metastore In this video Simon takes two existing databricks workspaces and builds out Unity Catalog from scratch provisioning account console access creating a metastore"
YouTube Link 2023-07-11T16:52Z 40.3K followers, 21.7K engagements

"Advancing Spark - Data + AI Summit [----] Day [--] Recap The Data + AI Summit [----] brought a ton of updates so many that we're only just on to Day [--] of Keynote announcements Whilst traditionally the "Data Science" updates day this time we saw announcements across MLFlow Databricks Workflows and Delta Live Tables In this video Simon steps through the Day [--] Keynote available to watch On Demand via the DAIS [----] website. He discusses MLFlow [---] which brings MLFlow pipelines serverless model serving and deep model observability. He then looks briefly at Workflows before digging into some exciting DLT"
YouTube Link 2022-07-07T17:17Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Data + AI Summit [----] - Keynote Recap If you missed the Data + AI Summit Keynote [----] announcements then you missed an absolute whirlwind of product announcements and roadmap updates. There is a HUGE amount of innovation going on across the whole Data Intelligence stack. Do you know your Lakeflow from your Lakebase Your Agent Bricks from your Databricks One Have you got your hands around the gigantic number of new features and products Well don't you worry - Simon has run through both keynotes and pulled together the master list of all the key announcements coming from DAIS this year into one"
YouTube Link 2025-06-18T12:26Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Have you heard about the Mirrored #Azure #Databricks #UnityCatalog item type in #MicrosoftFabric If you're already using Databricks you're probably familiar with Unity Catalog. But did you know that you can now easily shortcut your Unity Catalog tables into Fabric using the new Mirrored Azure Databricks Catalog item type 🤓"
YouTube Link 2024-11-06T14:00Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Advancing Spark - Data AI Summit [----] Keynote Summary Day [--] We're slowly recovering from the sheer amount of Day [--] announcements from the Data + AI Summit [----]. Luckily Day [--] had a little bit more chill and we can step through the recent changes and upcoming features to both the Spark Engine itself and Delta Lake In this video Simon takes a walk through the Thursday Keynote stopping at the major announcements and digging into what they mean to us. The English Language SDK is probably the biggest one in there but there are a whole load of additional things Liquid Clustering is definitely one"
YouTube Link 2023-07-07T07:19Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Unleashing the Power of Structured Streaming for Efficient Data Processing #databricks #deltalake Did you catch our first episode of #AskDatabricks To understand some of the power of #DeltaLiveTables you need to understand just how great Spark Structured Streaming is Michael Armbrust gives us a super quick lesson in just why streaming is great and why using it in DLT is even better We ran through plenty of #DeltaLiveTables topics upcoming features Serverless Streaming design patterns and more"
YouTube Link 2023-09-14T18:08Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Microsoft Fabric - VNet Data Gateway #microsoftfabric #azure #dataengineering VNet Data Gateways for Fabric are now generally available This was announced yesterday and can make working in #Fabric easier and more efficient - Johnny's got the details on how it works"
YouTube Link 2024-02-02T11:51Z 40.3K followers, [---] engagements

"How We Built the Bakeoff Bot with Databricks AI/BI Genie In our last Databricks video we walked through a Databricks AI/BI Genie demo showing how you can bring a data-scoped chat to life with some personality easter eggs and encourage the kind of iterative data analysis that drives innovation. In this video Simon starts with a blank canvas and builds out the same Genie Room this time taking you through the steps tricks and advice to create a compelling Genie space. We have one more video in our mini-Genie series looking at effective strategies and advice for using Genie in your organisation"
YouTube Link 2025-02-12T17:00Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"LLM Evaluation - MLOps Gym - Advancing AI 🔥 Ready to Master LLM Evaluation in Databricks 🔥 This hot topic is taking the AI world by storm In this episode we dive deep into LLM evaluation with MLflow on Databricks part of the awesome MLOps series by Sepideh from Databricks 🚀✨ Whether you're just starting or you're a seasoned pro weve got everything you need to boost your skills. 🧠 What's in the video How to evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) with MLflow 🛠 The power of RAGAS (Retrieval Augmented Generation Assessment) for better model assessments 💡 Hands-on insights from Sepideh and"
YouTube Link 2024-09-25T09:39Z 40.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Advancing Spark - Data AI Summit [----] Keynote Summary Day [--] The Data + AI Summit [----] was an absolute whirlwind of announcements demos insight and of course meeting so many great people If you're like us you're a little fuzzy about just how many things were announced In this video Simon takes a walk back through the Wednesday Keynote stopping at the major announcements and digging into what they mean to us. There's a lot so hold onto your seats If you didn't make the summit in person you can still catch up On Demand - check it out here: https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/"
YouTube Link 2023-07-06T18:16Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Beginners Guide to Mastering Version Control on Databricks - MLOps Gym - Advancing AI In this video were diving into Version Control on Databricks to help you manage and organize your code effortlessly. Whether youre setting up version control for the first time or looking to refine your approach weve got practical insights on everything from feature branches to committing changes back to master. 🌟 Heres what well cover: - What version control is and why its a game-changer for data science and machine learning projects 📂 - Setting up Version Control with Azure DevOps to make your workflow"
YouTube Link 2024-10-28T17:11Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Azure Databricks News Aug - Sep [----] The August/September period had a veritable bounty of AI-based updates to the Databricks platform. There are a TON of upgrades to the Databricks Assistant moving from written replies and code through to raising support tickets changing settings and impacting the wider platform. We're seeing more foundational models for your RAG/Fine-Tuning needs as well as bunch of wider platform updates In this video Simon walks through the release notes talking about the various features and what it means to us For the Databricks Release notes see:"
YouTube Link 2024-10-04T15:55Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Top [--] FabCon Europe Announcements - Fabric News September [----] - Advancing Fabric We are just back from the first European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference and there were way too many announcements for us to cover. Craig is here to share his top [--] announcements from FabConEurope. Check out all of Septembers news on the Fabric blog: https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/fabric-september-2024-monthly-updateft=All And if you're looking to kick the tyres of Fabric why not check out our hands-on Fabric Hackathon to get up to speed and drive value from your own data quickly Get in"
YouTube Link 2024-10-02T12:42Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"AA @ DAIS: Travel Time We're at the Data and AI Summit this week Join our team on their travel days (which included a Pride parade) before heading in to the event. Music by QubeSounds from Pixabay"
YouTube Link 2023-06-27T13:46Z 39K followers, [---] engagements

"Advancing Spark - Databricks SQL Variables & Dynamic WHERE Whenever someone comes from a heavy SQL background they find some of their favourite toys missing from the Spark SQL world - but there have been huge investments from Databricks to catch up here over the past few months. We thought it was time to talk SQL Variables Parameterised Tables and even the WHERE (*) functionality So if you've been sitting in the pyspark wastelands dreaming of the good old days of SQL Variables this is the video you've been waiting for In this video Simon runs through how Spark SQL parameters work some of the"
YouTube Link 2024-05-01T11:32Z 38.2K followers, [----] engagements

"Unleashing Incredible Efficiency - Discover the Power of DLT Serverless #databricks #deltalake In our first episode of #AskDatabricks we had the pleasure of speaking to Michael Armbrust about Delta Live Tables Michael introduced DLT Serverless and what could be enabled if we let Databricks take care of compute and scaling for us behind the scenes Check out the full episode here: https://youtube.com/live/DDqMNMF57P8"
YouTube Link 2023-09-11T16:51Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Advancing Spark - Dynamic Data Decryption The ability to determine whether a user sees encrypted or decrypted values of a record has been incredibly powerful in meeting data protection requirements. There are established patterns from the warehousing world that have been very tricky to adopt in the Lakehouse approach. until now. In this video Simon walks through the new aes_encrypt() and decrypt() functions in Databricks Runtime [----] before showing how they can be combined with row level security to dynamically display decrypted data to only those with the relevant access. As always if you"
YouTube Link 2022-03-04T16:00Z 38.2K followers, [----] engagements

"Microsoft Fabric Part [--] - Domains and Workspaces Curious about Workspaces and Domains in Microsoft Fabric In Part [--] of our series Craig talks you through what they are and how they function"
YouTube Link 2023-06-13T09:04Z 39.2K followers, [----] engagements

"Ask Databricks - about Delta Live Tables (DLT) with Michael Armbrust Ask Databricks about Delta Live Tables. What is it Why should you use it What are the best practices How do you use certain features How does it compare to other ELT/ETL tools Whats coming next And more Ask Databricks goes beyond conventional webinars blogs videos and tutorials. This new collaborative endeavor taps into the collective knowledge and experience of Databricks experts and the broader community in a live conversational environment. It doesnt matter whether youre new to Databricks or a seasoned user with years of"
YouTube Link 2023-09-07T04:53Z 38.4K followers, [----] engagements

"Advancing Spark - First Look at Unity Catalog We've been hearing lots about Unity Catalog the Databricks cross-workspace governance solution but many of us haven't seen it in action. until now In this video Simon takes Unity Catalog for a spin talking around the purpose of the tool before walking through a quick demo of what it's like working with a UC-enabled workspace. We're just scratching the surface of the catalog itself but it's already easy to see how it improves cross-workspace collaboration and there's plenty more videos to come Unity Catalog is currently in gated public preview -"
YouTube Link 2022-06-22T07:07Z 38.2K followers, 19K engagements

"Getting GenAI to Production with Mosaic AI Gateway in Databricks There is an insane amount of innovation in the AI space to make it super easy to put together a Gen AI POC. Anyone can now click a few buttons and push out a agent or an LLM-wrapper app. but far too often that's where people stop. How do you do the hard piece How do you get a Gen AI App into production Enter Mosaic AI Gateway - it does the hard piece that used to have to be built with specialist API Management apps. Managed failovers privacy & safety management automatic observability & tracking - these are the pieces that are"
YouTube Link 2025-11-28T16:59Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Vibe-Engineering LakeFlow Pipelines the Advancing Analytics Way We've seen far too many examples of people slinging one-shot vibe-coded AI slop out into the world slapping a production badge on it and calling it a day. But conversely we've seen far too many people completely rule out using AI in the data development process and missing all of the competitive advantage it brings. so how do we reconcile the two We've been working on something pretty special - a hybrid of engineering and LLMs. An opinionated structured well-engineered process with specially guided Agents that use the framework"
YouTube Link 2026-01-13T15:09Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Demystifying AI in Insurance with Microsoft There is so much noise around AI in Insurance right now it can be hard to know how to pick through it all and where to put your focus. Our Chief AI Officer Gavi Regunath will be be joined by Richard Carberry Senior Azure Tech Specialist for Insurance at Microsoft UK for an overview of industry trends and use cases. Later in the event they'll be joined by Microsoft AI Expert Cindy Weng. Together - and with your questions in our live chat - they will demystify AI in Insurance. We'll cover: -- The latest AI trends and where the technology is heading."
YouTube Link 2025-02-20T03:07Z 40.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Advancing Spark - MLFlow [--] [--] The MLFlow platform has been growing expanding and seeing over [--] million monthly downloads which shows how well adopted it is across industry. Last week saw the announcement of MLFlow [---] the next step in the evolution of the platform encapsulating several key new features. In this video Simon and newly awarded Microsoft AI MVP Gavi talk through the new features what it means for MLFlow and what the next areas we want to dig into in future videos For more info on MLFlow see the announcement here:"
YouTube Link 2022-12-01T10:06Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Best Practices for Databricks AI/BI Genie Rollouts We've shown you what a good Genie room looks like and the steps you need to run through to actually build one - but what does it take to actually roll out a room how do you ensure success with adding Generative BI to your Data Products In this video Simon runs through the Databricks Genie Best Practice guidelines - looking at how tightly scoped iterative development can lead to the best outcomes for your users The best practice guide can be found here:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/genie/best-practices If you haven't yet"
YouTube Link 2025-02-25T13:24Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Co-ordinating AI/BI Genie Spaces with Databricks Agent Bricks One of the most exciting impressive announcements coming from the Data + AI Summit [----] was this new Agent Bricks thing - but what can you actually use it for How do you get started What actually is it In this video Simon walks through a very first use case for Agent Bricks - building a co-ordinating agent that can sit across multiple Genie Spaces and answer questions accordingly Pretty damn cool - it's currently in Beta so don't get too exciting about automating the entirety of your production jobs just yet but it's a VERY"
YouTube Link 2025-07-30T12:51Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Data & AI Updates at Microsoft Ignite [----] Good Morning It is once again time for Microsoft Ignite the annual conference where we get all sorts of goodies announced by Microsoft. As usual there are a whole raft of talks announcements forums and sessions to pick through - it's hard to know where to start. Once again Simon has stayed up watching the various keynotes & announcements coming from Microsoft Ignite [----] as well as trawling through the Big Book of News to pick out the parts he finds interesting & important for the future The book of news can be found here -"
YouTube Link 2021-03-03T08:35Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Azure Synapse Analytics - Low-Code Data Science with Synapse AutoML There's a huge amount of benefit in getting an initial boost when kicking off Data Science projects and that's the key driver behind AutoML projects. We've looked at AutoML in Databricks previously but today we're looking at the Synapse offering which brings together the various compute engines within Synapse to a smooth experimentation flow. In this video Simon is joined once again by Gavi our resident Data Science Guru to walk us through a low-code machine learning scenario - from prepping the initial dataset getting"
YouTube Link 2022-05-12T14:38Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Advancing Spark - Data & AI Summit [----] Roundup The Data & AI Summit Europe [----] has sadly come to an end and it's been a crazy week of announcements sessions breakouts discussions and lots of good stuff In the flurry of announcements it's easy to miss out on the key points but don't worry we've got you. In this vid Simon runs through the major points of Databricks SQL Analytics ML Flow Model Repository & Next-Gen Data Science Workspaces as well as sharing some news from the Databricks Partner Summit. The links discussed were: MLFlow -"
YouTube Link 2020-11-20T14:22Z 38.4K followers, [---] engagements

"Advancing Spark - Spark [---] Overview Spark [---] has just been released and there's a whole load of features that will change your data lake life. In this (overly excited) update video Simon covers the main features and why they should matter to you More details on the official announcements - https://bit.ly/2Botq7b Don't forget to like & subscribe for more Azure Analytics content"
YouTube Link 2020-06-19T08:19Z 38.2K followers, 17.4K engagements

"Behind the Hype - The Medallion Architecture Doesn't Work Since the dawn of the Data Lake we've been arguing about what to call the different layers that we move data through. The Medallion Architecture has become supremely popular in recent years and with Microsoft Fabric embracing the Lakehouse approach it's never had more attention that it does currently But there's also a huge amount of confusion - what do the different layers mean What processes do you do where How do you translate the entirely of your data curation into just three steps. and does it always make sense In this video Simon"
YouTube Link 2023-10-24T13:10Z 39.2K followers, 45.8K engagements

"Microsoft Fabric Part [--] - OneLake and Shortcuts Want to learn more about Microsoft Fabric Our series covers the basics in bite-sized chunks. Part one looks at OneLake and Shortcuts - what are they and how do they work"
YouTube Link 2023-06-01T09:02Z 39.2K followers, [----] engagements

"What is an AI Agent Advancing AI Agents - Ep [--] 🚀 What if AI could reason plan and act on its own Join us for this short insightful series where James and I demystify AI agentshow they work when to use them and their real-world impact. Each episode is bite-sized (10 minutes) packed with key insights and designed for beginners & AI enthusiasts alike 📌 Ep 1: What is an AI Agent Start your AI agent journey with this beginner-friendly episode where we break down the core concepts in under [--] minutes. Learn what sets AI agents apart from standard LLMs how they make decisions benefits and"
YouTube Link 2025-02-14T17:00Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Advancing AI - DBRX & The AI Playground There have been huge waves recently after Databricks announced their new open-source MoE (mixture of experts) large language model. but what does that actually mean If you're already happily chatting away with your favorite LLM why would you care And how do you even get started with using it In this video Simon takes a look through the major points of the DBRX announcement and what the sheer focus on speed tells us about LLM maturity. We then take a dive into the new Databricks AI Playground to test out DBRX Instruct and show you how you get can get"
YouTube Link 2024-04-19T09:30Z 38.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Advancing Spark - Databricks Funding & Google Cloud Announcement There have been a couple of major announcements from Databricks recently - firstly a very successful round of funding followed by the news that Databricks completes it's collection of the major cloud vendors by rolling out onto GCP. So you can now run Databricks on Azure AWS and Google which is a pretty impressive feat In the first of today's two (TWO) videos Simon talks about these major headlines and what the announcements mean for us Databricks funding announcement -"
YouTube Link 2021-02-23T15:20Z 38.1K followers, [---] engagements

"Advancing AI - Databricks Vector Search Index The RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) pattern for keeping LLM's honest and accurate is super popular and being widely adopted but you generally need to set up embeddings inside a Vector Database to get it working. Databricks recently released the Vector Search Index to automate this process for you taking an existing Delta table and managing an underlying Vector Store In this video Simon & Gavi look at the new Vector Search Index (VSI) functionality within Databricks the limitations with the preview and the steps to get started working with it."
YouTube Link 2024-02-16T17:15Z 39.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Advancing Spark - Understanding the Spark UI When we first started with Spark the Spark UI pages were something of a mystery an arcane source of mysterious hidden knowledge. Looking back it's something that is so so useful for understanding your spark cluster diagnosing user issues and deciding whether your cluster is correctly sized. In this video Simon gives a quick tour of the Spark UI talking through the various tabs and the kind of troubleshooting/information they can provide. As always don't forget to like & subscribe for more Sparky news and stop by our website if you need some deeper"
YouTube Link 2020-09-17T12:42Z 39.6K followers, 70.5K engagements

"Advancing Spark - The Rise of GenBI with Databricks AI/BI and Genie Generative BI - definitely sounds like a new hype term that will be bandied around at every opportunity but what does it actually mean If we're looking at a new wave of Gen-AI driven BI tools how does this change how people interactive with data In this video Simon takes a look at the new AI/BI product from Databricks specifically the fairly magical Genie - giving users a ChatGPT-like interface directly over the data within Unity Catalog. Taking this not as a direct replacement for dashboards but as another tool for specific"
YouTube Link 2024-07-10T11:19Z 39.3K followers, [----] engagements

"How to use Recursive CTEs in Databricks Recursion is needed when you solve a small problem but to solve that small problem you first solve a small problem but to solve that. you get it. We've been missing Recursive CTEs in the world of Spark ever since we separated storage from compute. They're a real niche tool that are so incredibly useful for a whole bunch of tasks - and they're now available in Spark as of Databricks [----]. In this video Simon takes the common ragged-hierarchy problem of downstream table lineage talks through how we would have previously solved the problem before"
YouTube Link 2025-08-14T13:21Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Getting started with MLFlow in Databricks Databricks just announced that MLFlow has been Incorporated in to Databricks. We take a look at how it works in this getting started with MLFlow demo. Link to the notebook: https://github.com/SQLShark/DatabricksExamples/blob/master/MLFLow/Sklearn-Regression-MLFlow.ipynb Link to the website: https://www.advancinganalytics.co.uk/"
YouTube Link 2019-03-07T14:40Z 38.3K followers, 22.8K engagements

"Azure Synapse Analytics - Lambda Patterns with Synapse Link On-Demand One of the new features of Synapse Analytics is Synapse Link - the ability to query a live analytics store within CosmosDB with only tiny amounts of setup. We've recently seen it rolled out for the SQL On-Demand endpoint meaning we can write both Spark and SQL directly over this analytics store In today's video Simon demonstrates how we can use Synapse Link to build up a Lambda Architecture which enables near real-time querying with relatively little fuss More information on Synapse Link can be found here:"
YouTube Link 2020-10-27T11:49Z 38.3K followers, [----] engagements

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