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Asanka Padmakumara Sri Lanka

Business Inteligence Consultant - Fortude

Number of Speeches : 7

Asanka is a BSc Computer Engineer from the University of Paradeniya, currently performing the role of Tech Lead for a BI solution at Fortude. He has worked for more than 8 years in the IT industry and has implemented BI solutions for different industries. He has Microsoft certifications in Business Intelligence and .NET. Asanka is passionate about Microsoft data technologies.


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Analyzing Big Data using Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Power BI

November 14, 2019

Data, Insight, and Power BI User Group-Auckland

BIG DATA has been a buzz word for so long in IT field and different vendors have introduced different technologies to analyze big data. Microsoft introduced Azure SQL Data Warehouse in 2016 to process and analyze large data volumes with the help of powerful cloud infrastructure. In this session, Asanka will start with an introduction to Azure SQL Data Warehouse and then will go through the archite....See More

Azure SQL Database -Things you must know

June 08, 2019

Global Azure Bootcamp 2019 - Colombo

SQL Server, everyone's favorite database management system is available in multiple flavors. From the latest SQL Server 2019 on-premise, to it's truly cloud flavor, Azure SQL Database. This session will introduce you to these different flavors of SQL Server, their usage scenarios, and how the different SQL Server flavors can fit into the your business needs.

ETL 2.0: Data Engineering with Azure Databricks- Webinar

April 04, 2019

PASS Cloud Group Webinar

This a webinar which cover introduction to Azure Data Bricks and how to start doing data engineering using it.

ETL2.0: Data Engineering with Azure Databricks

January 26, 2019

SQLSaturday #818 - Malaysia 2019

Spark and Azure Databricks have become game changing features in data world and processing large volume of data has never been faster. In this session , I will give a introduction to Azure Databricks, Apache Spark and will walk though step by step on how to use Azure Databricks.Additionally I will showcase how to perform ETL operations using Azure Databricks.

Move Your On-Prem Data to a Lake in the Clouds

April 21, 2018

Global Azure Bootcamp 2018-Colombo

With the boom in data; the volume and its complexity, the trend is to move data to the cloud. Where and How do we do this? Azure gives you the answer. In this session, I will give you an introduction to Azure Data Lake and Azure Data Factory, and why they are good for the type of problem we are talking about. You will learn how large datasets can be stored on the cloud, and how you could transport....See More

Move Your On-Prem Data to a Lake in the Clouds

April 21, 2018

Global Azure Bootcamp - 2018

With the boom in data; the volume and its complexity, the trend is to move data to the cloud. Where and How do we do this? Azure gives you the answer. In this session, I will give you an introduction to Azure Data Lake and Azure Data Factory, and why they are good for the type of problem we are talking about. You will learn how large datasets can be stored on the cloud, and how you could transport....See More