Microsoft MVP (10x), Financial Modeler, Data Engineer, and Power BI Developer.
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⏰ Starting in a few minutes! Introduction to the data build tool (dbt), 8:00–9:00 PM EDT, online
Join Data Engineers in Toronto as John Miner (Senior Data Architect at Insight Digital Innovation, 10-time Microsoft MVP) goes past the usual Jaffle Shop demo.
He’ll walk through a full sample dbt project built on the Chinook database, covering:
🔹 Seeds, views and macros for multi-database support
🔹 Slowly changing dimensions and incremental loading
🔹 Using dbt_utils to build a date dimension
🔹 A dimensional model for reporting
🔹 Data quality tests, custom exception tables and auto-generated docs
By the end, you’ll be ready to model data on any database or warehouse.
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See you there!
Signed up yet for Monday's webinar, meetup.com/data-engineers-in… ?
Join over 65 currently registered attendees to learn more about the nuances of data streaming.
Topic: Streaming your database - Easier said than done?
Presenter: Sigal Shaharabani, Technical Group Leader & Couchbase Ambassador
Don't miss the session!
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Registered yet for our next webinar on Fabric Data agents? Do so now at meetup.com/data-engineers-in…
Topic: Beyond the Prompt - Tuning Fabric Data Agents for Flawless Results
Speaker: Thimantha V.
As organizations race to deploy AI Agents, it quickly becomes clear that standard prompt engineering isn't enough. To achieve production-grade accuracy, you have to go beyond the prompt and fundamentally change how you feed your data layers to the AI.
#Fabric #AI
Going live in about an hour: Stop Guessing - Solve SQL Performance Problems with Query Store
Speaker: Deepthi Goguri, Microsoft MVP & SQL Database Administrator
Time: 8:00 PM EDT, tonight
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#SQL #DataEngineering #Data
Tomorrow: Stop Guessing - Solve SQL Performance Problems with Query Store
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Speaker: Deepthi Goguri, SQL Database Administrator
Abstract:
When query performance suddenly changes, finding the root cause isn't always easy. Execution plans can change over time, and the plan cache often provides only a limited view of what happened.
Query Store helps by capturing query history, execution plans, and runtime statistics, giving you the visibility needed to identify regressions, compare plans, and maintain consistent performance.
#SQL #DataEngineering #Data
Data Engineers in Toronto's next webinar session: Stop Guessing - Solve SQL Performance Problems with Query Store
Speaker: Deepthi Goguri
Date: 27 July 2026, 8:00 pm EST
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#SQL #DataEngineering
Starting in about 30 mins: Get DP-700 Certified: The Fabric Data Engineer Overview
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Interested in the DP-700 Fabric Data Engineer Associate exam and a chance at a free exam voucher?
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Don't miss tomorrow's live webinar: Introduction to PySpark in Microsoft Fabric.
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Speaker: Jared Kuehn, Data Engineer
Datetime: 13 July 2026, 8:00 pm EDT
With all of the engineering features in Microsoft Fabric, which medium should you use to move and transform data? Low-code data flows and pipelines? Good old relational SQL? What about this newfangled PySpark everyone is buzzing about?
If the last option piques your curiosity and you haven't tried it, this is the session for you.
#Fabric #PySpark #Python
Don't miss today's Data Engineers in Toronto webinar that starts in about 20 mins.
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Topic: Data Mesh as the Foundation for AI/ML in Financial Services
Speaker: Santosh Durgam, Data Engineering & Analytics Leader
See you shortly on the call!
Don't miss today (Monday's) live webinar: Data Mesh as the Foundation for AI/ML in Financial Services
Speaker: Santosh Durgam, Data Engineering & Analytics Leader
Time: 29 June 2026, 8:00 PM
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In less than 2 hours: Building Scalable SCD Type 2 Pipelines in MS #Fabric DW Using T-SQL by Jean Joseph
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Don't miss tomorrow's #Fabric #DW webinar: meetup.com/data-engineers-in…
Speaker: Jean Joseph, Principal Data & AI Engineer Tech-Insight-Group LLC
Topic: Building Scalable SCD Type 2 Pipelines in MS Fabric DW Using T-SQL
Sign up for our next webinar: Building Scalable SCD Type 2 Pipelines in MS Fabric DW Using T-SQL at meetup.com/data-engineers-in…
Speaker: Jean Joseph
Datetime: 08 June 2026, 8:00 PM ET
You can access the recording of past sessions at dataengineersintoronto.org/
#Fabric #SQL #Data
Starts in less than two hours: Data Modernization at Traditional Banks - From Legacy Mainframe to Cloud
Speaker: Vishal Sharma
Time: 8:00 pm ET today
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RSVP for Data Modernization at Traditional Banks - From Legacy Mainframe to Cloud at meetup.com/data-engineers-in…
Speaker: Vishal Sharma, VP - Software Engineering at Broadridge
Mainframe transformation has been a top priority in financial services because of its operational inefficiencies and high maintenance costs associated with mainframes when compared to modern distributed systems.
Tomorrow. RSVP at meetup.com/data-engineers-in…
Maximize SQL Server Performance with Read Committed Snapshot Isolation
Speaker: Haripriya Naidu, Lead SQL Server Database Administrator
Learn how SQL read operations can be made consistently performant using RCSI and prevent query locks.
Don't miss next week's live webinar session on a core concept of SQL Server administration. If you attended the last webinar, you'll agree with me that non-trendy topics by veterans pack huge value.
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You get to see all our upcoming events, recording of past events, Slack workspace and other community pages in one interactive website.
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