John Miner

John Miner is a Data Architect at Insight Digital Innovation helping corporations solve their business needs with various data platform solutions.

John Miner is a Senior Data Architect at Insight Digital Innovation helping corporations solve their business needs with various data platform solutions.

He has over thirty years of data processing experience, and his architecture expertise encompasses all phases of the software project life cycle, including design, development, implementation, and maintenance of systems.

His credentials include undergraduate and graduate degrees in Computer Science from the University of Rhode Island. Also, he has earned certificates from Microsoft for Database Administration (MCDBA), System Administration (MCSA), Data Management & Analytics (MCSE) and Data Science (MPP).

John has been recognized with the Microsoft MVP award five times for his outstanding contributions to the Data Platform community.

When he is not busy talking to local user groups or writing blog entries on new technology, he spends time with his wife and daughter enjoying outdoor activities. Some of John’s hobbies include wood working projects, crafting a good beer and playing a game of chess.

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Apache Spark	Data Engineering with Microsoft Azure Databricks, Synapse and Apache Spark
Apache Spark	Data Processing using Apache Spark and SQL Server using pymssql
Apache Spark	Exploring Hive Tables with Spark SQL
Apache Spark	Filtering and Aggregating Hive Tables with Spark SQL
Apache Spark	Managing Excel Files with Apache Spark for Azure Databricks Implementation
Apache Spark	Managing XML Files with Apache Spark
Apache Spark	Working with Spark files and Hive tables
Auditing and Compliance	Audit and Prevent Unwanted SQL Server Table Changes
Azure	Azure Automation and PowerShell Runbooks
Azure	Azure Database for MySQL
Azure	Azure Event Hub Service Telemetry Example with PowerShell
Azure	Business Critical Tier of Azure SQL Services
Azure	Creating SQL Server Linked Servers with Azure
Azure	Deploying Azure Analysis Services using PowerShell cmdlets
Azure	Deploying Azure SQL Data Warehouse Using Resource Manager
Azure	Exploring Azure Table Storage with PowerShell
Azure	Improve Security with an Azure Service Principal
Azure	Leveraging PolyBase to load data into Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Azure	Managing Azure Data Lake Storage with PowerShell
Azure	Microsoft Azure Key Vault for Password Management for SQL Server Applications
Azure	Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) support for Azure Blob Storage
Azure	Setup an Azure Virtual Machine and Contoso Sample Database for SQL Server Testing
Azure	SQL Azure Cross Database Querying
Azure	System Stored Procedures for SQL Azure Linked Servers
Azure	The tale of two Azure Hubs - IoT Hub and Event Hub
Azure	Transfer files between a Data Science Virtual Machine and Azure Data Lake Storage
Azure	Update an Azure SQL Data Mart with ADLS files
Azure	Using Azure to store and process large amounts of SQL data
Azure	What's new in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
Azure Backup and Restore	Copying SQL Server Backup Files to Azure Blob Storage with AzCopy
Azure Backup and Restore	Create Database Copies in Azure SQL Database
Azure Backup and Restore	Long Term Storage for Azure SQL Database Backups
Azure Backup and Restore	Using PowerShell to Restore an Azure SQL Database
Azure Cosmos DB	Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB database and the SQL API
Azure Data Factory	Azure Data Factory Parameter Driven Pipelines to Export Tables to CSV Files
Azure Data Factory	Build Azure Data Factory Pipelines with On-Premises Data Sources
Azure Data Factory	Lambda Architecture in Azure for Batch Processing
Azure Data Factory	Leveraging the Power Query activity within Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory	Leveraging the Script Activity within Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory	Managing schema drift within the ADF copy activity
Azure Data Factory	Supporting multiple data lake file formats with Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Studio	Azure Data Studio Step By Step Tutorial
Azure Databricks	Azure Databricks Local File System Management
Azure Databricks	Code Reuse with Spark Functions for Azure Databricks
Azure Functions	How to Schedule T-SQL Statements to Run with Azure Functions
Azure Integration Services	Deploy SSIS Catalog to Azure Cloud - Part 1
Azure Integration Services	SQL Server Integration Services Flexible File System Task with Azure Blob Storage
Azure Integration Services	SQL Server Integration Services Flexible File Task with Azure Data Lake Storage
Azure SQL Database	Azure SQL Database - Table Partitioning
Azure SQL Database	Azure SQL database auditing using Blob Storage
Azure SQL Database	Azure SQL Database Table Partitioning Example
Azure SQL Database	Bulk Insert Data into a Azure SQL Database with PowerShell
Azure SQL Database	Deploying Azure SQL Database Using Resource Manager PowerShell cmdlets
Azure SQL Database	Enabling Active Geo-Replication For Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database	Enabling alerts for Azure SQL database via PowerShell cmdlets
Azure SQL Database	General Purpose Tier for Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database	Going Serverless with Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database	Move Azure SQL Databases using the Export and Import PowerShell cmdlets
Azure SQL Database	Using Snapshot Replication with an Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database	Using Transactional Replication with an Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Managed Instance	Deploy and Configure Azure SQL Managed Instance
Azure SQL Managed Instance	Enable Auditing for Azure SQL Managed Instance
Compression	Using the SQL Server 2016 Compress Function
Compression	Using the SQL Server 2016 Decompress Function
Database Design	Change SQL Server Table Structures with SQL ALTER TABLE
Database Design	Reverse Engineer SQL Server Databases with Visual Studio
Database Mail	SQL Server Database Mail configured with the Send Grid Email Service in the Azure Market Place
DevOps	Azure DevOps for Agile Projects
DevOps	Continuous database deployments with Azure DevOps
DevOps	Continuous SQL Server Database Integration with Visual Studio and Azure DevOps
Full Text Search	Full text indexing with Azure SQL database
Functions System	Parsing string data with the new SQL Server 2016 STRING_SPLIT function
Import and Export	Importing Enriched Data into Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) with PowerShell
Integration Services Administration	SSIS Catalog Deployment to Support Dev, QA and Production
Integration Services Development	Power Query Source for SQL Server Integration Services
Integration Services Development	SQL Server Integration Services Flexible File System Task with Local Storage
JOIN Tables	SQL LEFT JOIN Examples
Other Database Platforms	Data Platform Options - Relational, NoSQL, Graph, Apache Spark and Data Warehouses
Partitioning	Database Sharding to help Improve Performance and Maintenance Tasks
Partitioning	Improve Performance and Management of Large Table by Converting to Partitioned View in SQL Server
Power BI	Advanced Mathematical Formulas using the M Language
Power BI	Converting and formatting numbers using the M Language
Power BI	Introduction to the Power BI Desktop and the M Language
Power BI	Manage Power BI Dataset with PowerShell
Power BI	Manage Power BI Reports with PowerShell
Power BI	Managing Power BI Workspaces with PowerShell
Power BI	Rounding Numbers using the M Language
Power BI	Simple mathematical formulas using the M Language
Power BI	Text Extraction using the M Language with Power BI
PowerShell	Processing text files with PowerShell
PowerShell	Using PowerShell to Work with Directories and Files
Python	Introduction to JSON, Python and REST API
Spatial Data Storage	Calculate Geographical Coding and Time Zone for an Address in SQL Server with PowerShell, T-SQL and Google Maps
SQL Server 2016	New Drop If Exists Syntax in SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016	SQL Server 2016 New Date Objects
SQL Server on Linux	Getting Started with SQL Server on Linux
TSQL	Aggregate and Summarize Totals with SQL SUM
TSQL	SQL SELECT DISTINCT Examples
TSQL	The T-SQL DELETE statement

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