Microsoft Cortana Intelligence Suite Analytics Workshop

Welcome to the Cortana Intelligence Suite workshop – Azure SQL Data Warehouse Focus delivered by your Microsoft Data Science team. In this big data project, you’ll cover a series of modules that guide you from understanding an analytics workload, the Cortana Intelligence Suite Process, Massive Parallel Processing and loading a data warehouse using various tools. You’ll also learn how to work through a real-world scenario using the Cortana Intelligence Suite tools, including the Microsoft Azure Portal, PowerShell, and Visual Studio, among others.

Modules:

1. CIS overview and how Azure SQL Data Warehouse fits into CIS
2. Introduction to Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3. Working with Tables, Indexes, and Statistics
4. Loading data into Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5. Managing Security and Administration.
6. Workshop recap (Extended Class)

Skills taught:

1. Understand the CIS Process (General level), Understand CIS Components (General Level), set up and configure the development environment
2. Understand how to create an Azure SQL Data Warehouse using various tools.
3. Understand SQL Data Warehouse and its constructs, Implement loading activities into Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
4. Manage the security and administration of an Azure SQL Data Warehouse