AFAS is a Dutch business software company, proving companies with ERP and HR software-as-a-service. You can extract data from the service using a REST API (there are also SOAP...
2022-03-07
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We’re reading in some JSON files in Azure Data Factory (ADF), for example for a REST API. We’re storing the data in a relational table (SQL Server, Azure SQL...
2022-02-28
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Linting is a process where a code analyzer is run to find programmatic errors, bugs, “stylistic constructs” or anti-patterns. For example, in Python there are specific modules that help...
2022-02-28
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A new feature has been added to the Power BI Desktop toolset and it’s a very nice one. The official name is “DirectQuery for PBI datasets and AS”. It...
2022-02-25
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I’ve received some good news: Techorama is back with an in-person conference! I’m selected as a speaker and I’ll be talking about Azure Data Factory. Azure Data Factory (ADF)...
2022-02-22
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Recently I was working with a client who was still on SQL Server 2012. Support issues aside, there are some very useful T-SQL functions/clauses who didn’t exist in 2012,...
2022-02-17
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I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
2021-04-30 (first published: 2020-02-04)
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For quite some time now, there’s been the possibility to lift-and-shift your on-premises SSIS project to Azure Data Factory. There, they run in an Integration Runtime, a cluster of...
2020-11-10 (first published: 2020-11-03)
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A small blog post for anyone who stumbles across this issue (and for my future self, should I forget the solution). I was working on some tables in SSDT...
2020-10-16 (first published: 2020-10-08)
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Sometimes when you’ve created a SSIS catalog, along with folders, environments and environment variables, you want this content on another server. Unfortunately, you can only script out these objects...
2020-10-14 (first published: 2020-10-06)
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By Chris Yates
There was a time when the Chief Data Officer lived in the shadows of...
By Rayis Imayev
"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked."Oh, you can’t help...
By Steve Jones
I saw some good reviews of the small gemma3 model in a few places...
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