Southampton and Reading Data Platform and Cloud Meeting - 3rd March 2021


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Welcome to Southampton Data Platform and Cloud Group.
Join us for some shorter talks this month on a variety of topics.
This event will now be virtual for the next few months. Please join us for some great quality content, and feel free to supply your own pizza!
We hope we'll be back to in person events in the future, please bear with us for the time being.
Agenda
18:30 - Spectrum IT - Update on jobs in the Covid-19 world
Join Ian and Steve from Spectrum to talk about topics such as:
Trends in recruitment, pay, and packages
Future of the market
Homeworking - working practices and productivity
Knowledge sharing
Mental health
And more.
Feel free to bring your questions on the night, or submit them in advance.
19:00 - Lina Kovacheva - Getting started with Azure Synapse Analytics
19:20: Mikey Bronowski - Shortcuts in Azure Data Studio
Azure Data Studio offers great flexibility in choosing keyboard shortcuts. Except for default shortcuts, users can create their own combinations and operations.
In ADS we can also use shortcuts known from SQL Server Management Studio.
CTRL+X yourself from a comfy sofa and CTRL+V yourself into this user group session.
19:40: Tobias Koprowski - Sensitivity Labels for DBA.
Protect you connections and secrets wit Sensitive Data Types labelling in azure and Microsoft 365.
20.00 - Rob Sewell - A Managed Instance from nowt to query in 10 minutes with Azure Arc Enabled Data Services
Managed Instances in Azure take a considerable time to provision.
In this 10 minute session we will start with nowt and create a Managed Instance, restore a database to it, and query it inside 10 minutes using Azure Arc Enabled Data Services running on Kubernetes.
- nowt - Northern UK word meaning nothing

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Southampton and Reading Data Platform and Cloud Meeting - 3rd March 2021