diponkar.paul

Diponkar Paul has 14 years of experience in the IT industry and specialized in the Business Intelligence domain, currently working as a Manager of Data Engineering at OMERS, Canada. Throughout his career, he designs and developed medium and large data warehouses and delivered business-critical analytical solutions. He was leading the Toronto PASS Group; which is part of the world's largest data professional community named PASS and Lead of Toronto Data Professionals Community. He got a diverse background and has been working and studying in different Geo locations including Canada, Denmark, the UK, and Sweden. He writes a technical blog and speaks, he loves to share his learning within the community.
  • Interests: Data, Travel, Swimming, Cycling, cross-country skate
  • Blog: http://allaboutdata.ca/
  • Jobs: Senior Data Engineer
  • Skills: Big data, Business Intelligence, Database, ETL, ELT, Data Warehouse

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How to Recover a Corrupted Azure Data Factory Integration Runtime

I would like to share my recent experience with Azure Data Factory (ADF) where AutoResolveIntegrationRuntime become corrupted and how did I recover it. I still don't know how the Integration Runtime (IR) was corrupted. However, if it happens, then this article will help you to solve the issue. Problem In general, the ADF AutoResolveIntegrationRuntime should […]

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2024-09-02 (first published: )

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What is OneLake in Microsoft Fabric?

Get ready to be blown away! The highly anticipated Microsoft Build in May 2023 has finally unveiled its latest and greatest creation: the incredible Microsoft Fabric - an unparalleled Data Intelligence platform that is guaranteed to revolutionize the tech world! fig 1: OneLake for all Data One of the most exciting things in Fabric I […]

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2023-07-26

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How do you secure sensitive data in a modern Data Warehouse?

In 2019 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) news reported a massive data breach at the Desjardins Group, which is a Canadian financial service cooperative and the largest federation of credit unions in North America. The report indicated, a "malicious" employee copied sensitive personal information collected by Desjardins from their data warehouse. The data breach compromised the […]

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2022-03-30

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How to Flatten JSON in Azure Data Factory?

When you work with ETL and the source file is JSON, many documents may get nested attributes in the JSON file. Your requirements will often dictate that you flatten those nested attributes. There are many ways you can flatten the JSON hierarchy, however; I am going to share my experiences with Azure Data Factory (ADF) […]

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2021-09-17

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The Decoded Value

In SQL Server 2025, what is returned from this code:

DECLARE @message VARCHAR(50) = 'Hello SQL Server 2025!';
DECLARE @encoded VARCHAR(MAX);

SET @encoded = BASE64_ENCODE(CAST(@message AS VARBINARY(1000)));
SELECT BASE64_DECODE(@encoded) 

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