I recently received an extensive set of post-workshop resources from the 3-day Business-Oriented Data Modelling Masterclass by Canadian data modelling expert Alec Sharp, which I attended in June. I can highly recommend this intensive, interactive workshop to anyone working in data, business analysis, or solution architecture. The program combines the core content from two of Alec’s most popular offerings – Business-Oriented Data Modelling and Advanced Data Modelling – into a single, well-structured masterclass. The course...

Just returned from the Data + AI Summit 2023 in San Francisco, a leading conference on Lakehouse Data Engineering, Machine Learning and Generative AI with thousands of data experts, hundreds of technical sessions and much more. In the same week the Snowflake Summit was run in Las Vegas. I attended this conference last year but this year I chose to attend the Data + AI Summit organized by Databricks to get to know both leading...

The upcoming Virtual Data Warehouse implementation & automation classroom training will be located in The Netherlands. Check out the details & register at www.virtualdwh.com. The training is delivered in conjunction with Doerffler & Partner and DCYSIVE and will once again focus on the design and implementation of a data platform that is truly flexible, scaleable and resilient. This is a very practical training that will provide the end-to-end overview of how to deliver a hybrid data warehouse solution. Utrecht is centrally...