Episode 186 – Azure Synapse, Cognitive Search, and Forms Recognizer

In Episode 186, Ben and Scott talk through several scenarios around the use of Azure Synapse, Forms Recognizer, and Azure Cognitive Search. Transcript Email Download New Tab - Welcome to Episode 186 of the "Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast," recorded live on July 9th, 2020. This is a show about Microsoft 365 and Azure, from the perspective of IT pros and end users, where we discuss a topic or recent news and how it relates to you. In this episode, Ben and Scott dive into some work Ben has been doing lately, involving Azure Synapse, Cognitive Search and Forms Recognizer. I don't know how many of our listeners follow American football. Did you see the news from the American Football League or the NFL? Technically the National Football League, but they only play in America, so I don't really know why it's national, although, international, I don't know. Anyhu, did you hear the news from them yesterday? - I did not. - NFL teams will be forbidden from post-game interactions within six feet of each other and jersey exchanges between players will be prohibited during the 2020 season. The reaction from the NFL fan or NFL players, "Aren't we going to be touching each other's jerseys "during the game?" Kind of pointless to prohibit interactions and jersey exchanges after the game. Or this is a perfect example of the NFL thinking in a nutshell. Players can go engage in a full-contact game and do it safely, however it is deemed unsafe for them to exchange jerseys after the game. - Yeah. - Let that one sink in, because you hear stories about what happens in those games. I'm sure those players are getting spit on and get spit in their face when they're under those piles. My random tidbit for the day. - Yeah, I don't know what to tell you about that one. Just a little bit of just logic that does not flow through that app. - Yeah. Okay, so there's my random tidbit for the day. We'll keep it short, we won't go on a 10-minute side topic. We've been doing that the last few weeks, only about Max stuff. - Oh, we could keep going about Max stuff. - We could keep going about Max stuff. We could turn into the "Microsoft 365 Apple Podcast." - Yeah, we could talk about how apps crash and eat up the GPU in wrong ways and just all sorts of things. - Or we could talk about running betas. - We could talk about running betas and things that go on there as well. No one should run a beta on their daily driver, but here you and I are. But you go further than I do, you do the operating systems on your laptop and PCs as well. I'm not that brave. - Yes, I have not done my operating system yet on this go around. I have learned my lesson after the last two or three. I'll probably wait another week or two. - But you did your watch. - I did my watch. - Why? - It's like, 'cause what harm can it do on a watch? - What harm can it do? Let's go back and pull up the thread. Hey Scott, isn't it annoying how I can never update the watch 'cause I have to reset it every time? What harm could it possibly do? Pushing two and a half gigs over a crappy Bluetooth LE connection, yeah. - It only takes four hours to update and then once it updates, it doesn't have enough space to install the next update. - You should not do that. Your phone, your iPad, sure, you can back up and restore those. That's your other problem with your watch, is you have to take it in for service if you wanna step back in an iOS version. - Or if you wanna go backwards. True - Yes. - I can always do a restart though after I upgrade, once I reset it, just to go to the next beta version. All right. - That is one way to live your life, for sure. - On the edge, or being very patient while my watch updates. I mean, I figured with my watch, what do I? It really has to keep time. If I get different notifications, all of that,