Control Flow activities in Data Factory involve orchestration of pipeline activities including chaining activities in a sequence, branching, defining parameters at the pipeline level, and passing arguments while invoking...
2021-04-06 (first published: 2021-03-25)
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I’ve been working on a project for the last few months with a client who has chosen to implement Dremio in Azure. Dremio is a data lake engine that...
2021-03-23 (first published: 2021-03-18)
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Question: When an activity in a Data Factory pipeline fails, does the entire pipeline fail?Answer: It depends In Azure Data Factory, a pipeline is a logical grouping of activities...
2021-02-25 (first published: 2021-02-18)
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Have you ever tried to use your browser to zoom in on a visual in a Power BI report? If you simply published your report and then zoomed in,...
2021-02-18 (first published: 2021-02-11)
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It’s common that users only have access to certain folders in an Azure Data Lake Storage container. These permissions are provided not through Azure RBAC (role-based access control) roles...
2021-02-09 (first published: 2021-02-04)
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Jon Schwabish over at PolicyViz has created great initiative called the One Chart at a Time Video Series. It’s an effort to expand readers’ graphic literacy through short videos...
2021-02-03 (first published: 2021-01-27)
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I’ve been working on a project where I use Azure Data Factory to retrieve data from the Azure Log Analytics API. The query language used by Log Analytics is...
2021-01-05 (first published: 2020-12-24)
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I’m excited to announce that something new is coming to the Power BI community in 2021: Workout Wednesday! Workout Wednesday started in the Tableau community and is expanding to...
2020-12-30 (first published: 2020-12-18)
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Many conferences have moved online this year due to the pandemic, and many attendees are expecting captions on videos (both live and recorded) to help them understand the content....
2020-12-08 (first published: 2020-11-24)
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A while back I was chatting with Shannon Lindsay on Twitter. She shares lots of useful Power BI tips there. She shared her syntax tip of the & operator...
2020-11-03 (first published: 2020-10-29)
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I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
Windows Subsystem for Linux is probably my favourite feature of Windows 10. It gives...
By Steve Jones
With SQL Saturdays being rebooted, and the SQLSaturday.com website live, it’s time for events....
I have finally been given the green light to upgrade my SQL instance (starting...
I have a very simple query: SELECT AkcesAutoID FROM ( SELECT P.AkcesAutoID, A.AkcesitPred, A.Akcesit,...
SQL Server 2016 - Two issues when restoring database in standby mode on a...
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