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These little things about Azure Data Factory

• by Rayis Imayev

• Data Adventures

(2021-Jan-12) Small data that is hard to be noticed but in a long run makes the greatest impact, little things that are not well apricated but eventually become those final...

2021-01-12

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Logging the history of my past SQL Saturday presentations

• by Rayis Imayev

• Data Adventures

(2020-Dec-31) PASS (formerly known as the Professional Association for SQL Server) is the global community for data professionals who use the Microsoft data platform. On December 17, 2020 PASS announced...

2020-12-31

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Using Azure Durable Functions with Azure Data Factory - HTTP Long Polling

• by Rayis Imayev

• Data Adventures

(2020-Dec-21) While working with Azure Functions that provide a serverless environment to run my computer program code, I’m still struggling to understand how it actually works. Yes, I admit, there...

2020-12-31 (first published: 2020-12-21)

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Using Durable Functions in Azure Data Factory - Support for long running processes in Azure Functions

• by Rayis Imayev

• Data Adventures

(2020-Oct-14) Ok, here is my problem: I have an Azure Data Factory (ADF) workflow that includes an Azure Function call to perform external operations and returns output result, which in...

2020-10-23 (first published: 2020-10-15)

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Row Numbers in Azure Data Factory Data Flows

• by Rayis Imayev

• Data Adventures

(2020-Oct-05) Adding a row number to your dataset could a trivial task. Both ANSI and Spark SQL have the row_number() window function that can enrich your data with a unique...

2020-10-12 (first published: 2020-10-05)

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Custom deployment parameters in Azure Data Factory - Forget Me Not

• by Rayis Imayev

• Data Adventures

(2020-Sep-26) Last week one of my Azure Data Factory (ADF) deployment pipelines failed with an error that it couldn’t find some of the deployment parameters that I try to override,...

2020-10-05 (first published: 2020-09-26)

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Passing array of arrays as a parameter in Azure Data Factory and the role of an @item element in this

• by Rayis Imayev

• Data Adventures

(2020-Sep-13) Array of arrays, in a JSON world, it’s a very common concept to have a set of sets of other elements in a dataset. Despite how strange it may...

2020-09-21 (first published: 2020-09-14)

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Setting default values for Array parameters/variables in Azure Data Factory

• by Rayis Imayev

• Data Adventures

(2020-Aug-14) Setting default values for my parameters or variables in Azure Data Factory (ADF) may be a trivial task, but it gets more interesting when those elements are Arrays....

2020-08-25 (first published: 2020-08-14)

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Transforming JSON data with the help of Azure Data Factory - Part 5 - Comparing it with Databricks

• by Rayis Imayev

• Data Adventures

(2020-July-29) There is a well known and broadly advertised message from Microsoft that Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a code-free environment to help you to create ...

2020-08-07 (first published: 2020-07-29)

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Collecting custom parameters/variables for Azure Data Factory deployment

• by Rayis Imayev

• Data Adventures

(2020-June-22) It's a noble act to develop a very cool database solution that will bring value to your customers. In addition to this, you can help...

2020-07-07 (first published: 2020-06-22)

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