I have a metadata-driven ELT framework that heavily relies on dynamic SQL to generate SQL statements that load data from views into a respective fact or dimension. Such a...
2024-07-08 (first published: 2024-06-08)
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When you develop data pipelines in Microsoft Fabric (the Azure Data Factory equivalent in Fabric, not to be confused with deployment pipelines), you will most likely have some activities...
2024-07-01 (first published: 2024-06-13)
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In Azure Data Factory (ADF, but also Synapse Pipelines and Fabric Pipelines), you have a typical scenario where you retrieve some metadata from a database and then loop over...
2024-06-27
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This book was recommended by some of my colleagues, so I decided to give it a try. After finishing the book, I was pleased that I did. As the...
2024-06-24 (first published: 2024-06-05)
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I wrote a piece of SQL that had some new T-SQL syntax in it: IS DISTINCT FROM. This predicate checks if two expressions are equal taking NULL into account....
2024-06-24
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In the introduction of this blog post series, I explained the use case: extracting data from the Planview Portfolios REST API using Azure Data Factory. Any tool that can...
2024-06-19 (first published: 2024-05-26)
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I’m very excited to announce I’ve been selected as a speaker for dataMinds Connect 2024, Belgium’s (and maybe/probably/most likely mainland Europe’s) best and greatest Microsoft data platform conference. My...
2024-06-17
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I have a client using Planview Portfolios to manage their PMO. As part of the data warehouse, we want to extract the project data from the Planview REST API....
2024-06-14 (first published: 2024-05-26)
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I came across a bit of a weird error when I was trying to connect to a PostGreSQL database (hosted as an Azure DB for PostGreSQL), where “xx.xx.xx.xxx” is...
2024-06-07
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In the introduction of this blog post series, I explained the use case: extracting data from the Planview Portfolios RESET API using Azure Data Factory. Any tool that can...
2024-05-28 (first published: 2024-05-26)
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By Steve Jones
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Say we have a database that we want to migrate a copy of into...
We are trying to get apps and users off of using SQL accounts to...
Hi I have this view to check if a job is running: SELECT...
All, if you are like me and do not care for the built-in color...
Certain internal SQL Server actions cause internal checkpoints. Which of these actions does not cause an internal checkpoint?
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