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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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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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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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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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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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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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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