Microsoft Partner Showcase with Fivetran

Data estates have exploded in complexity with data residing in multiple regions and clouds, with endless combinations of data sources, schemas, and formats. Data integration is a complicated task. Fivetran has built a complete SaaS solution for easily orchestrating data movement: small or large databases, near real-time or periodic batching, Kelly Kohlleffel from Fivetran takes us on a tour.

Links from episode:

00:00 Opening
01:03 Introductions
02:33 History
05:50 Movement challenges
12:20 Demo
15:26 Real time vs near real time discussion
19:15 Example: AWS RDS for Oracle to Synapse migration
28:20 Hashing column values
30:00 Handling changes / CDC
32:00 Initial sync (free) and incremental syncs
34:13 Seeing the migrated data in Synapse
36:22 Migration and pricing discussion
40:41 Uptime / SLA
41:50 Data sovereignty
43:53 Getting started
45:14 Wrap up
46:06 Close