Hello World: Thursday, March 25, 2021
hello world hi nitia welcome to the show how are you hi frank i'm doing good wow that was a good entry i love it well i thought you know i'm always very energetic but i was trying to keep it because we have a big show today big show a lot of news but before we we we have we share the agenda of everything i just want to share a few notes right so i think you i will let you start so what news yeah you know what i'm really excited about tomorrow right here on learn tv the net team is doing a learn.net challenge they're gonna walk you through a workshop and it's i think it's starting off with micro services but what i like about it is it's gonna be a regular series you can join this go to any reactor page and you can join a watch party if you want to or you can just watch on learn tv and work alongside them i really love this way of like going through the content and it's going to have a cloud skills challenge associated with it so don't forget to check that out oh awesome today as i was reading my news feed i i saw a very good news and i was very excited about it and uh maybe it looks for a bunch of different people uh like not as big of a deal but it was a new feature from a tool called a z copy so easy copy it's available on all platforms so mac linux windows and it's already you could move file from on-prem to azure and then like even like amazon to azure azure to azure different account and stuff like that but now in preview you can now bring up data from google cloud so one tool to rule them all i put like how to get started in the in the notes so if someone want to start and also did a video recently about that so i put all that in in the notes another thing yeah that's pretty cool did you know that too no but i remember you telling me about it so i'm gonna go check that out i actually think the fact that you can do it across environments is awesome yeah it's already installed if you go in cloud shell so you don't even need to install it it's already there very very very powerful tool another news a lot of people at least when i was talking to a lot of clients clients always worry you know to go over their budget or like to not use at their maximum capacity uh their resources and stuff like that so the best way to visualize information is to use dashboard and they release this week uh enhanced version of the the editor for the dashboard inside the azure portal so now you could have nice portal not portal dashboards that you could share and customize it's very very efficient so a very easy way to share information for any resources in azure wow people should definitely check out those show notes for that but i i kind of think we're already going to have a packed agenda today so here's one more thing people can learn and maybe coincidentally maybe that's something that you know we can get isaac to do it tips and tricks thing who knows we'll put stuff on his plate but um was there anything else or shall i talk about what's on the toe today yeah let's share what's uh on the show today awesome so before i jump in i also want to give a shout out because we are super happy because earth day is going to be on a thursday this year so it's in april so if you are doing anything for earth day do give us a shout out we'd love to like learn about what you're doing for sustainability but today's show is packed thursdays are the best day on hello world so we're going to kick start this with a really good segment with isaac levin i'm i'm gonna call it tips thursday as well now uh followed by humans of microsoft we have a really special guest someone who's creative that i love then we're gonna talk certifications because it is of course thomas thursdays and then we're gonna wrap that up with i'm so excited about this a new segment that we're debuting today frank is awesome because he's gonna let me do something fun we're gonna call it abc so wait to check that out and i think without further ado we should start the show so frank take it away what are we doing so and now let's go live at azure hq with isaac and the new tips and trick hi zach can you hear me bonjour frank bonjour how are you doing my friend that's right isaac levin here right in front of azure hq and boy do i have some good tips today this week we are talking about five things you didn't know about azure sql database and we should see a screen right uh there it is yeah so let's do our first five tips so number one is the query editor for simple data querying tasks you can use the integrated query editor that you can find under the query editor menu authenticate to your azure sql server and you're ready to go you inquiry data views and execute stored procedures you can also save queries for later use number two power apps integration power apps enable you to create applications without coding from azure sql database you can easily create power apps with the data in your database select powerapps menu get started and select the table that you want to create an app for this creates a new power app that you can connect that is connected to the table in your azure sql database and enables you to edit the app in the powerapps designer how cool is that forms over data at a fast the third thing is automatic tuning azure sql database can automatically tune the performance of your database in the automatic tuning feature you can select if you let azure sql create and drop indexes at automatically on query performance you can also let it judge the execution plans of queries and use the best ones for them four personally my favorite four is coming up right in a second or is my favorite and serverless tier for every sql workload you can run it on a high premium tier that provides incredible performance and storage capabilities or on a lower basic tier we need less storage and performance so i know sql server is a big deal but sql server list is even cooler now you can also run azure sql database on serverless chair now you have the option to control the serverless scaling by setting a minimum of maximum performance and you have the database pause when it isn't being used for a certain amount of time which means you have to pay for it you only pay for the storage and finally another really really great one is azure cognitive search integration azure cognitive search enables you to create search and auto complete experiences for your data in azure sql database you can easily make your database searchable by plugging azure cognitive search in you do that from the add azure search menu here you can select an existing azure cognitive search instance or create one and configure its search index by providing it a table from your database this couples azure cards you search with your database enables you to search the index to search your database super simple again adding ai on top of data super super awesome so talked about five really cool things with azure sql database so as sql database has a lot of features including query editor powerapps integration automatic tuning our server list here and integration with azure cognitive search go and check it out back to you frank wow you know back in in the previous life i used to be a dba and you know pulling my hair to do half of what you share here and now it's so easy or like accessible this is very good news and like those services have done a great work to uh make it more simple for us that's pretty cool i mean it's it's super awesome like just you know as somebody who has been forced to do database things in their career like taking all of those complex things and putting an ai on top of them putting integrations on top of them it's super awesome so remember that this tip as well as all other tips are available on aka.mslash hello world that's our show notes uh and you know there's the tips are going to be there as well as links to all the other tips we've done on the show as well as on the azure tips and tricks website this is like i need to go there and start digging in those notes because it's so nice like the scaling you know like it's it's so simple you just you know pull a little thing on the side in its scale or like having auto completion for your data yeah yeah i think you know and i just i i mentioned a little bit earlier like my favorite is the serverless stuff right so being able to only pay for the data or the storage that your data takes up instead of having to pay for its compute when you're not using it is super awesome i can think of all sorts of really cool scenarios for that right and i think you know as we close with azure tips and tricks one of the things that i want to call out is we have tons of tips over 300 actually they're out there um check the show notes akms hello world to see some more of them thank you isaac thank you frank take care and now we'll join lauren who's talking to cheryl about her experience in public speaking welcome back to humans of microsoft this is a segment where we talk to people just like you and me but they have one thing in common they all work for microsoft and today with me on the show there is cheryl adams hello cheryl how are you doing i'm well and you i'm very good thank you so much cheryl you are a senior content developer you work for microsoft and you are based in san francisco or near san francisco right correct absolutely awesome so let's go into the questions the first question i have for you is what was a key moment a pivotal moment if you want in your career my key moment was really learning about technology but the biggest moment was sharing what i was learning as i discovered new things i felt a sense of urgency to share that with others so getting on the path of speaking training really helped me share what i was learning and playing it forward yeah that's really interesting and you do some public speaking right this is something that that you like a lot i do i really enjoy it the ability to connect with people even though we're virtual now it's so inspiring the feedback has been tremendous and it just encourages me to do more and speak on the topics that i'm truly passionate about yeah this is great um if you could go back in time like anytime you want what would you tell yourself to help you getting started first and foremost is to really trust yourself a lot of times we get bogged down with worries and concerns if we're not going to make it and making those mistakes is perfectly okay because it's part of the learning process we learn through those what we call experiences whether they're good or bad another point that i recall is really documenting your path there once was a time that i only documented when things were successful but i found the most benefit was to document those areas that were hard for me because i can reflect on those and hopefully not make those mistakes again and most importantly i feel is celebrate the small wins when you've resolved an issue or even helped a teammate congratulate yourself because that was something that you accomplished that day this is really cool and i feel that sometimes just telling my team that something went well is great because it's not bragging it's really just like including them into the celebration right absolutely this is fantastic can you share one skill that you feel has contributed or still contributes to your career the biggest skill that i feel has contributed is really self-care taking care of yourself is pivotal in your career and also in your personal life as well at your level of wellness you can achieve so much more but i i don't kid you self-care is not easy it's often a struggle we have many demands on our time in our lives but it is one of the most valuable investments that we can make this is very uh very important especially in these days right um what have you learned about yourself while while you're working in the field of technology the biggest thing that i've learned is that i belong here and despite the challenges and the hurdles in technology there is a space for me and so i need to remind myself and hold on to that belief even in the most challenging of circumstances well this is great and i for one am very happy that you found this space um what is one more thing that you want to tell our viewers to to inspire and motivate them i think self-talk is so important because the stories that we tell ourselves are the things that we hold true and so we really need to be careful of those conversations we have with ourselves be careful of those negative confirmations that we tell ourselves because those become our truths one thing that's important is to maybe start off with something positive start your day with something positive so that you can reflect on that even throughout the challenges self-talk is the loudest story that you'll hear so we should be careful of what we tell ourselves wow this is very very interesting well this was very fascinating i'm so happy that we had the time to talk thank you so much so much cheryl for taking part to humans of microsoft and to all our viewers out there please join us next time for another uh segment of humans of microsoft thank you so much cheriel thank you wow that was great that the way she said like the you know when she discovered that sharing was giving her a lot of energy or what like kind of donate with me i've actually i've been fortunate i've seen her in a couple of events and i think the two things i took away one is self-care i can't tell you how important that is especially at this time to kind of be compassionate with yourself and with others and okay just personally documentation yes document everything journal your life as somebody who tries to like you know sketch notes so i can remember things that really resonated with me but hey i think it is thursday right so that means only one thing i'm super excited for this so that's thomas thursday so i guess we're doing the next segment which is all about certifications and i love having parmesan because he's very systematic about it i think the first time i heard him he was talking about here are the certifications the second time he was like roll base certifications so i actually did my research and microsoft has a lot of certifications so now i think he's going to solve the problem of where do we start with certifications right thomas absolutely hi media great to be here uh today thank you for having me and i completely agree with you first days are the best by far so yeah today you're absolutely right we're going to talk about um how to actually pick the right roll burst certification uh and it's actually funny because last week i got approached by someone who watched the show the episode on hello world and came and said hey thomas okay great i want to become now certified on a specific topic but there are so many certifications out there can you help me pick the right one right and so that is what we're going to have a look at today oh awesome and i actually find this very fascinating because when i look at searching for certifications we can search by you know level beginner intermediate advanced we can search by role we can search by topic so where do i start we're like yes absolutely so i think the best way is really going to this microsoft certification page because we have everything now on on this page and it's like you can easily go there by microsoft.com
learn and then find certification or you can obviously use your favorite search engine bing to find it as well and the first thing you can then see when you select certifications you can see here like different roles which we put out there uh you can see from developer administration administrators architects but yeah also ai engineer and data scientist right so obviously you could then just pick that specific certification if this is something you're currently doing and you want to get certified in that or it also can be something you want to do in the future right a lot of people are choosing certifications for different uh topics it can be that they want to like get better at their job working towards a promotion or even switching careers right so always pick the ones where you think uh where you should go however you mentioned an interesting part if we scroll scroll down a little bit more we have obviously a lot more to offer than just like these role-based certifications now as you mentioned before we can see here the uh on the left side we can see here the fundamental certifications and again we don't have them just for azure we also have them for microsoft 365 the power platform for dynamics and many many more so this is a really good starting point i always recommend to everyone let's start with one of these fundamentals and get certified there we then also in the middle column you can see here we offer the different role-based certifications which actually which we just talked about uh again not just for microsoft azure we also offer that for many of our other products as well and then interestingly you can see here also something you just mentioned we have the additional certifications so some of them are not necessarily related uh like in a chop roll there could be like for any or for multiple chop rolls so for example we have one on sap on azure so this is a speciality certification and there you can actually then say okay hey i i i'm like an azure administrator or i'm a national developer but i work a lot with sap on azure so i also want to get certified into that and so that is that is what we can do here yeah you know one thing that has always appealed to me is when i do search like go look at certification right anytime i complete a module like the modules will automatically tell me which certification paths those are valid for and one thing i've been realizing recently is that once you get certified in any one thing there's probably a few more you could complete just by taking an additional couple of courses or paths because they stack so well upon each other absolutely you're absolutely so right so like finding these different modules and then finding the related information it helps you so much so if we again have a look at at the page here and quickly like look at one for example here like at the azure developer one if we then click on this we can find more about this certification in particular and so you can see here i find some information who is that certification for but if i scroll down i can find two other very important things here the first one is really okay which exams do i need to take right to actually earn that certifications so this one for example you don't need to take the fundamental one but you can but then you just need to take one certification and the other one is obviously the skills measured so all the skills in there which we measure so you can find an outline here and as you mentioned we have helped you to even find the right learning paths here this is awesome thank you so much and before we forget you can find all of those resources in the show notes at ak dot ms slash hello world thanks so much thomas oh my god frank okay now nitia now is the time oh my god i am so nervous let's see if this works out so hello everyone i'm super excited because today we are debuting a new segment on hello world and we are calling it hello world abc so i'm not sure if you can see my slides on the screen yet but if you can i want to talk to you about this segment because what we want to do here is we want to look at the intersection of creativity and technology and you might see that abc spelt se that's for a reason did you know that 65 of us are visual learners we kind of absorb information by looking at things we look at the big picture we connect the dots we find patterns right and so part of this notion in the segment is we want to talk about the intersection between visual storytelling and technology learning how do we do that three different things so one this is what we call visualize i.t so don't forget to check out the show notes for links to these resources there are a whole slew of free workshops that we've got out there but really the focus is if you want to start your own visual storytelling journey learn to sketch there's a bunch of resources to get you started but the next step once you've learned to sketch is something we call sketch the docs right it turns out as a visual learner that you can make complex technology simpler if you draw a picture so here the goal is how do we sketch to learn if you go to the sketch the docs come on twitter you'll find a whole bunch of these in future episodes of hello world come here on thursdays and we will debut new visual guides to various technologies right here and you can print them out in high-res later but today we are debuting the third segment and i am so nervous we call this show-and-tell and the idea is can we use visual vocabularies to get people to know vocabulary or understand terms or concepts so let's play a game we're going to show you a picture you're going to see if you can guess what the term is and if you guess right hello world life abc let us know or tell us right here on the chat so are we ready frank for the first time yeah i am ready let's bring more guests because there's no way i'm playing alone isaac thomas are you ready i have no idea sounds amazing and scary at the same time yeah i feel it so nice yeah should we go first one whoa let's go i don't even know which one's going to show up first but so yeah so each one of these in the corner is going to tell you whether i'm sketching a concept or a product and this box says whatever it is is going to be a service or a product so okay guess it a service okay that's that's cool okay so it's definitely azure right yeah so the little icon there you're seeing a lot of ones and zeros and little charts so hopefully that gives you a hint the last one looks like a wall okay so any any guests hi zack thomas ah um i'm gonna go with azure binary search the last one looked like a wall of bricks yeah could it be could it be azure as a data brick i think there was a fabric also oh that's a fabric that's a right factory factory data bricks azure factory we're right with data bricks in fact if you pause it and if you see it later you'll see that the blanks tell you it was azure data breaks awesome not bad right it wasn't that bad okay we're getting in the zone now let's let's do another one i'm gonna stretch now we're good i'm going to stretch we need to pause when the whole thing is on so the second one is also a product or service so the box tells you that we're opening it it's going to be a product or service this one should be easy i think it should be easy so you mean thomas should be able to guess it well let's start by saying you're seeing a monkey at a computer come on come on oh it's like building mobile apps ah i know what it is yeah so say it say it that's it that's xamarin that's zinnia that was xamarin yes it was the only reason why i know that is because i have the monkey stuffed animal the only reason why there's one you got it i'm so happy we got one so okay another one the last one okay and then we will recap this one is a term so you're kind of trying to figure out what the terminology is no pressure thomas yeah no pressure thomas oh i i know i i i hope everyone else knows so what is it so i guess it's role based certification yes wow wait that that would have been that would have been hard if not even i would have guessed it right you want to make sure people are paying attention but yes hey you literally put the slide up in your segment today so if you hadn't got it it would have been really really bad but that was fun that was super fun let us know i'm very curious let us know on twitter and the chat and comments let us know how do you like it uh that game should we continue to do it i know i liked it did you like it i think i could play that for a half an hour or more like let's just let's just i i will give my segment and just play with your uh games i i'm with i'm with thomas so like no tips and tricks we're just gonna look at pictures and guess guess things next week that's perfect well i'm really sad we didn't have time because there was one based on tips and tricks you are going to be put on the spot and you escape we'll keep it for next week then we'll keep it for next week then so yeah we're going to troll yourself but go ahead frank let's recap so uh isaac what's your call for action for today so first off i want everybody to check out the show notes for the entire show um in the show notes you're gonna find a link to azure tips and tricks which has the tips that we just did for azure sql database but you know previous tips we did on the show as well as over 300 tips in general so not just for developers not just for it pros but for anybody who's a technologist out there taking advantage of azure tips and tricks wonderful of course don't forget you can contact get in touch with sheryl adams on twitter the contact will also be in the show notes yep and thomas has already shared his resources thomas any last shout outs on certification um no just come join us next week on hello world again where we speak more about how you can actually earn your certifications and i hope we can call it from now on sketchnote thursday that would be awesome that would be cool and i'm gonna hand it off to frank but before i do just a quick shout out tune in at 3 30 p.m eastern time on learn tv for a really good segment on launch space where they're going to look at surface duo with flutter development and i think that was it frank for me awesome well i really like our show was good it was fun uh coming next is azure fun bites and if you need any data and also i want your feedback so we put a lot of information in today's show notes we have a little form you could feel that form it's only four questions very easy and quick to do feel it it's always very appreciated we read all the comments and all the feedback we have to get better yeah yeah and all the notes from the show are aka.ms hello world all the links to everything you saw today so don't forget to check that out excellent so now we just need to wave and come back tomorrow for more hello first name's the best bye everybody you
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