When You Can’t Change the Connected Git Repo on ADF
I was working on an Azure Data Factory project for a client who is new to ADF, and there was a miscommunication about the new Git Repo to be...
2022-01-10 (first published: 2021-12-30)
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Meagan Longoria
Copying large files from SharePoint Online
I recently worked on a project where we needed to copy some large files from a specified library in SharePoint Online. In that library, there were several layers of...
2021-12-20 (first published: 2021-12-07)
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What are those new buttons under tab order in Power BI?
If you’ve visited the Tab order area of the Selection Pane in Power BI in the last couple of months, you might have noticed some new buttons. The hover...
2021-12-06 (first published: 2021-11-29)
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Power BI, Maps, and Publish to Web
October 2021 is mapping month over at Workout Wednesday for Power BI. As part of our challenges, we build a sample report and use the Publish to Web functionality...
2021-10-25 (first published: 2021-10-14)
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Connect Excel to a Power BI Dataset in a Premium Workspace with a B2B User
Power BI offers the ability for users who have access to a dataset in the Power BI service (PowerBI.com) to connect to the dataset using Excel. Normally, this feature...
2021-10-13 (first published: 2021-09-30)
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Slides and Video from Building a Regret-free Foundation for your Data Factory Now Available
Last week, Kerry and I delivered a webinar with tips on how to set up your Data Factory. We discussed version control, deployment, naming conventions, parameterization, documentation, and more....
2021-09-24 (first published: 2021-09-16)
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CDOT Bar Chart Makeover
As I was browsing Twitter today, I noticed a tweet from the Colorado Department of Transportation about their anti-DUI campaign. Shown below, it contains a bar chart that appears...
2021-09-08 (first published: 2021-08-19)
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Thoughts on Unique Resource Names in Azure
Each resource type in Azure has a naming scope within which the resource name must be unique. For PaaS resources such as Azure SQL Server (server for Azure SQL...
2021-07-29
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Calculating Age in Power BI
In week 26 of Workout Wednesday for Power BI, I asked people to calculate the age of Nobel laureates at the time they received the award. I provided some...
2021-07-21 (first published: 2021-07-09)
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Altering a Computed Column in a Temporal Table in Azure SQL
System-versioned temporal tables were introduced in SQL Server 2016. They provide information about data stored in the table at any point in time by storing an effective dated version...
2021-05-07 (first published: 2021-04-22)
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Daily Coping 29 Nov 2022
By Steve Jones
Today’s coping tip is to make a meal using a recipe or ingredient you’ve...
My adventures with speaking and what changed
I am writing this blog post as contribution to #NewStarNovember and what got me...
Automatically Take Missed Backups with Ola Hallengren’s Scripts
I blogged a few years ago about my configuration tables for Ola Hallengren’s maintenance...
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