📅 Wednesday, September 9, 2026 📅
🕜 5:15 pm @ Jones Creek Library
TRANSITION FROM DATA ANALYST TO DATA ENGINEER: UPGRADING SKILLS FROM DATAFLOWS GEN2 TO NOTEBOOKS
The session shows an analyst how to use notebooks to perform the same actions as Dataflow Gen2. Looking at 4 areas: source, transformation, cleansing, and destination, examples include append/merge query to dataframe joins, text replace functionality, split and concatenate columns, as well as pivot/unpivot, data type changes, and removing duplicates. We will finish off with engine optimizations.
🙂 Thomas LeBlanc
🙂 THOMAS LEBLANC
⚡️ Data Warehouse Architect/MVP at Data on the Geaux
Thomas LeBlanc is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and has spent 15+ years as a Data Warehouse Manager and Business Intelligence Architect in Baton Rouge, LA along with 15+ year as a Database Administrator specializing in SQL Server, Microsoft Business Intelligence Services (SSIS, SSAS & SSRS) and Power BI. Starting as a COBOL while in college as Louisiana State University, he has also been a developer, report writer, trainer and documentation writer. Thomas has been a recent and frequent speaker at PASS Summit, SQLSaturday, Live360, VSLive and Power Platform events. Microsoft has recognized Thomas as a Data Platform MVP for the past 5 years.
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