Ron L'Esteve

Ron C. L'Esteve is a Data and AI Leader and professional Author residing in Chicago, IL, USA. He is well-known for his impactful books and article publications on Azure Data & AI Architecture, Engineering, and Leadership. Ron holds a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) and Master of Science in Corporate Finance (M.S.F.) from Loyola University Chicago. Ron possesses deep technical skills and experience in designing, implementing, leading, and delivering modern Azure Data & AI projects for numerous clients around the world. He is a Motorola Certified Six Sigma Green Belt, a Microsoft Global Challenger, and also holds numerous additional Microsoft, Snowflake, and Databricks professional certifications in Big Data Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Apache Spark and Data Platform Architecture.
  • MSSQLTips Awards: Champion (100+ tips) - 2023 | Author of the Year - 2020-2021 | Rookie of the Year - 2019
Title Category Date
Azure Synapse Spark and SQL Serverless External Tables Azure Synapse Analytics2026-06-09
Designing an Azure Data Lake Store Gen2 Azure2026-06-04
Querying Star Schemas in Databricks with Dynamic Partition Pruning Azure Databricks2026-06-03
Synapse Analytics vs Snowflake for Advanced Capabilities Azure Synapse Analytics2026-06-03
Effectively Sell the Benefits of the Cloud and Influence Change Cloud Strategy2026-05-21
Using Azure Blueprints to deploy Azure SQL Server and Database with Key Vault Secrets DevOps2026-05-20
Copilot Support for the Analytics Engineer Artificial Intelligence2026-05-20
Azure DevOps CI CD using GitHub Repo and Visual Studio Azure SQL Database Project DevOps2026-05-19
Modernize a Traditional SQL Server Architecture with Fabric Microsoft Fabric2026-02-20
Snowflake vs Databricks vs Fabric: What the Benchmarks Don’t Tell You Data Warehousing2025-09-24
Managing Microsoft Fabric Capacity Planning Microsoft Fabric2025-05-14
Designing Microsoft Fabric Workspaces Microsoft Fabric2025-04-21
Managing Agile Scrum Teams Application Development2025-04-08
Who Should Own the Business Intelligence Team – IT or Business Data Warehousing2025-03-31
Creating a Chatbot with Azure AI Search and OpenAI Studio Artificial Intelligence2025-01-28
Generate Power BI Documentation with Fabric Semantic Link and OpenAI Power BI2025-01-03
Microsoft Fabric Monitoring with Metrics App and Data Activator Microsoft Fabric2024-05-13
Configure Azure Data Factory Per Pipeline Billing Azure Data Factory2024-04-04
Azure Machine Learning (AML) Gen AI Model Catalog and Prompt Flow Artificial Intelligence2024-01-29
Prompt Templates for gpt-4 LLM with OpenAI and LangChain in Databricks Artificial Intelligence2024-01-23
Get Started with LLMOps with MLFlow for Model Tracking with Open AI Artificial Intelligence2023-11-16
Databricks Unity Catalog and Volumes Step-by-Step Guide Azure Databricks2023-11-03
Databricks Assistant for AI and Bamboolib for No-Code Data Analysis Azure Databricks2023-10-17
Natural Language AI Querying with Databricks Azure Databricks2023-10-05
Strategies for Meeting Employee Needs and Reducing Employee Turnover Management Skills2023-07-06
Techniques to Help Sell Cloud Technology in Your Organization Cloud Strategy2023-04-14
Decentralize Cloud Data Management to Improve Data Access and Costs Cloud Strategy2023-03-13
Democratizing Self Service Cloud Analytics and ELT Cloud Strategy2023-03-02
Data Governance Frameworks and Data Sharing Practices Cloud Strategy2023-02-21
Effective Digital Team Management for Growth and Performance Management Skills2023-02-02
Key Cloud Roles and Responsibilities for Cloud Platform Transformation Cloud Strategy2023-01-25
Technology Roadmap Requirements, Priorities, Stakeholders and Plans Cloud Strategy2023-01-09
Benefits of DevOps for Cloud Transformation and Innovation Cloud Strategy2022-10-05
Transition from Traditional Data Warehouse to Cloud Data Lakehouse Cloud Strategy2022-09-13
Collaboration, Communication and Governance on Cloud Projects Cloud Strategy2022-09-01
Cloud Transformation Assumptions, Dependencies, Pricing Models Cloud Strategy2022-08-25
Cloud Transformation Project Initiation and Planning Phases Cloud Strategy2022-08-16
Cloud Transformation for Current and Future Project Requirements Cloud Strategy2022-08-01
Cloud Transformation Excellence with Innovation and Data Strategy Cloud Strategy2022-07-28
Centers of Excellence for Cloud Transformation Cloud Strategy2022-07-21
Cloud Data Lakehouse Success Architecture, Outcomes, Lessons Learned Cloud Strategy2022-07-15
Data Lakehouse Challenges, Business Goals, Strategy, Capabilities Cloud Strategy2022-06-28
Benefits of Adopting a Cloud Data Platform Driven Organization Cloud Strategy2022-06-20
Understand Cloud Data Platform and Create a Cloud Adoption Plan Cloud Strategy2022-06-02
Advanced Databricks Lakehouse Encryption, Security, Query Plans, CDC Azure Databricks2022-05-10
Data and AI Leadership – Emotional Intelligence, Mindful, Authentic Career Development2022-04-25
Responsibilities of Leaders in the Field of Data and AI Career Development2022-04-19
Databricks Delta Sharing Benefits, Creating, Altering, Describing Azure Databricks2022-04-13
Databricks Delta Live Tables Getting Started Guide Azure Databricks2022-04-06
Auto Loader cloudFiles with Databricks End to End Example Azure Databricks2022-03-29
PySpark ETL Code for Excel, XML, JSON, Zip files into Azure Databricks Azure Databricks2022-03-21
Azure Synapse Analytics Real-Time and Advanced Analytics Azure Synapse Analytics2022-03-17
Azure Synapse Analytics Security, Governance, and CI / CD Azure Synapse Analytics2022-03-11
Azure Synapse Analytics Workspace Storage, Development Notebooks Azure Synapse Analytics2022-03-03
Databricks Storage, Compute and Workspaces Azure Databricks2022-02-28
Databricks Real-Time Analytics, Advanced Analytics and Reporting Azure Databricks2022-02-21
Databricks Security, Governance and DevOps CI/CD Azure Databricks2022-02-14
Lakehouse Reporting, Data Modeling and Advanced Analytics in Azure Azure2022-02-08
Data Lakehouse Storage and Serving Layers Azure2022-01-27
Azure Data Lakehouse Ingestion and Processing Options Azure2021-11-09
Understanding Snowflake Data Warehouse Capabilities Snowflake2021-11-04
Lakehouse ELT design, development and monitoring of Azure Pipelines Azure2021-10-05
Spark Adaptive Query Execution Azure Databricks2021-09-23
Bloom Filter Indexes for Delta Tables in Databricks Azure Databricks2021-09-14
How to Implement a Databricks Delta Change Data Feed Process Azure Databricks2021-09-10
Auto Loader Resource Manager in a Scala Databricks Notebook Azure Databricks2021-09-01
Mount an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Account in Databricks Azure Databricks2021-08-24
Cloud Data Warehouse Planning Data Warehousing2021-07-27
Flatten Semi-Structured Data with Snowflake Snowflake2021-07-20
Import Data from Excel to Azure SQL Database using Azure Data Factory Azure Data Factory2021-07-06
Snowflake Data Warehouse Load with Azure Data Factory and Databricks Snowflake2021-06-15
Getting Started with Azure Purview for Data Governance Azure2021-06-08
Azure Databricks Access Controls and Row Level Security Azure Databricks2021-05-28
Read and Write to Snowflake Data Warehouse from Azure Databricks Snowflake2021-05-19
Delta Schema Evolution in Azure Databricks Azure Databricks2021-05-12
Creating Deep and Shallow Delta Clones in Azure Databricks Azure Databricks2021-05-07
Performance Tuning Apache Spark with Z-Ordering and Data Skipping Azure Databricks2021-04-30
Getting Started with MLflow in Azure Databricks Azure Databricks2021-04-14
Create a Python Wheel File to Package and Distribute Custom Code Azure Databricks2021-03-31
Real-time IoT Analytics Using Apache Sparks Structured Streaming Apache Spark2021-03-25
Graph Analytics Using Apache Spark GraphFrame API API2021-03-15
Getting Started with Azure Synapse Link for Cosmos DB Azure Synapse Analytics2021-02-25
Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flow Incremental Upsert Azure Data Factory2021-02-17
Azure Synapse Analytics Hyperspace for Spark Indexing Azure Synapse Analytics2021-02-02
Azure Data Factory Pipeline Logging Error Details Azure Data Factory2021-01-20
Azure Synapse Analytics Workspace Samples Azure Synapse Analytics2020-12-04
Deploy CI/CD Changes for Azure Data Factory with Azure DevOps DevOps2020-11-10
Sensitive Data Secured in Azure DevOps DevOps2020-10-22
PowerShell and Azure Blueprints for Data and Analytics Platform Azure2020-10-08
Managing Azure Blueprints with PowerShell DevOps2020-09-07
Getting Started with Delta Lake Using Azure Data Factory Azure Data Factory2020-08-17
Using Azure DevOps CI CD to Deploy Azure Data Factory Environments DevOps2020-08-04
Getting Started with Azure Blueprints DevOps2020-07-14
How to Ace an Azure Data Engineer Interview Interview Resources2020-07-01
Azure Data Factory vs SSIS vs Azure Databricks Azure Data Factory2020-06-08
Fast Way to Load Data into Azure Data Lake using Azure Data Factory Azure Data Factory2020-05-18
Loading Azure SQL Data Warehouse Dynamically using Azure Data Factory Azure Data Factory2020-04-16
Load Data Lake files into Azure Synapse Analytics Using Azure Data Factory Azure Data Factory2020-03-09
Using COPY INTO command to load Azure Synapse Analytics from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Azure Synapse Analytics2020-02-20
Logging Azure Data Factory Pipeline Audit Data Azure Data Factory2020-02-18
Azure Data Factory to Load all SQL Server Objects to ADLS Gen2 Azure Data Factory2020-01-30
Real-Time Anomaly Detection Using Azure Stream Analytics Azure2020-01-14
Realizing Business Value through an AI-driven Strategy and Culture Artificial Intelligence2019-12-10
Map Data Flows for Data Lake Aggregations and Transformations with ADF Azure Data Factory2019-09-16
Using Azure Databricks to Query Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Database2019-08-29
Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flow for Datawarehouse ETL Azure Data Factory2019-06-18
Azure Boards for Project Management DevOps2019-06-05
Deploy SQL Database from Azure DevOps with ARM and DACPAC File DevOps2019-05-09
Azure Vision Service and Face API Example with Python API2019-05-01
Design and Manage Azure SQL Data Warehouse Azure2019-04-19
Azure Data Factory Data Transformation with U-SQL Azure Data Factory2019-04-01
Create Azure Data Lake Linked Service Using Azure Data Factory Azure Data Factory2019-03-18
Example Using C# Code with U-SQL Scripts Azure2019-03-07
Create Azure Data Lake Database, Table, View, Function and Procedure Azure2019-02-20
Azure Data Lake Analytics using U-SQL Queries Azure2019-02-11
Federated U-SQL Queries to Join Azure Data Lake Files to Azure SQL DB Azure2019-01-24
Using SSIS to Generate Excel Files Based on Criteria Integration Services Excel2019-01-04