(2019-Oct-27) Creation or deletion files in your Azure Storage account may initiate data ingestion process and will support your event-driven data platform architecture. Image by Lars_Nissen_Photoart from PixabayMicrosoft recently introduced an...
2019-11-05 (first published: 2019-10-28)
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(2019-October-16) Developing conditional logic of your Azure Data Factory control flow has been simplified with introducing of the Switch activity - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/control-flow-switch-activity. Official documentation resource states, this new data factory activity "provides...
2019-10-29 (first published: 2019-10-16)
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(2019-Oct-23) Video recording of my webinar session on Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) in Azure Data Factory at a recent PASS Cloud Virtual Group meeting.It was based on a previously...
2019-10-23
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(2019-June-06) I remember I had a professor at my university who very often would encourage his students to learn and get more experienced with simple things first. Learn the basics...
2019-06-25 (first published: 2019-06-07)
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(2019-May-24) Data Flow as a data transformation engine has been introduced to the Microsoft Azure Data Factory (ADF) last year as a private feature preview. This privacy restriction has been lifted...
2019-06-11 (first published: 2019-05-24)
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(2019-Apr-28) Full credit goes to Microsoft for the latest efforts updating Azure products with new features and documenting corresponding changes for the end users. Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a great...
2019-05-08 (first published: 2019-04-29)
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(2019-Apr-02) Last week Microsoft introduced a new Validation activity task to the Azure Data Factory (ADF) - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/control-flow-validation-activity Initially, I was confused by its name, thinking that it would help me...
2019-04-16 (first published: 2019-04-03)
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(2019-Mar-20) File management may not be at the top of my list of priorities during data integration projects. I assume that...
2019-04-09 (first published: 2019-03-20)
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(2019-Mar-10) A conversation between two or more people involves continuous efforts to listen and reflect on what other people have to...
2019-03-25 (first published: 2019-03-10)
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(2019-Mar-01) The first time I heard about the Data For A Cause initiatives was at one of the Power BI meetups in Toronto....
2019-03-01
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