What a Summer Camp Kitchen Still Teaches Me
(2025-Aug-04) Taking my last week of vacation and then volunteering at a children's summer camp has been part of my plan since last year, when I did the same thing....
2025-08-05
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Data Adventures
Stepping into Event Streaming with Microsoft Fabric
(2025-July-06) Very often, real-time, high-speed streams of events come from IoT devices, social media logs, website user interactions, and financial transactions. So, working with streaming datasets can place you...
2025-07-07
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Salesforce CDC Data Integration
(2025-June-30) Working with different abbreviations or acronyms can speed up communication, but at the same time, it can exclude those who are not familiar with them. Sometimes this exclusion happens...
2025-07-01 (first published: 2025-06-30)
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Logging in Azure Data Factory data flows
(2025-June-15) Long gone are the days when a data engineer could simply focus on building a new data integration solution. You’d establish connections to one or more source datasets, review...
2025-06-30 (first published: 2025-06-16)
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Dealing with Changing Data Formats: Schema Drift in Azure Data Factory
(2025-Feb-12) I will jump straight to the problem statement without a "boring" introduction, which, in a sense, already feels like an opening statement.Moving data between two or more endpoints is...
2025-02-24 (first published: 2025-02-12)
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Data Masking with Azure Databricks
“Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”— Lewis...
2025-01-24 (first published: 2025-01-13)
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What I learned volunteering at a children's summer camp
"Stories are where memories go when they are forgotten" - Doctor Who.(2024-Sep-13) As September quickly moves forward, with schools starting and kids returning to their routines, the memories of the...
2024-09-27 (first published: 2024-09-13)
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Extracting PostgreSQL database metadata for presentation in Excel format
(2024-Mar-16) I have been a big fan of using the Excel application for various tasks for more than half of my life. I believe it's the most widely used spreadsheet...
2024-03-25 (first published: 2024-03-16)
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Don't Trust the Defaults
(2024-Mar-08) Software installation typically involves several steps. After accepting the license agreement, you may have an express option to streamline the installation process by accepting all defaults, including the installation...
2024-03-13 (first published: 2024-03-08)
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Handling physical deletes from the source and continue populating your analytical data store
(2023-Oct-15) When something important disappears, it's natural to start asking questions and looking for answers, especially when that missing piece has had a significant impact on your life.Similarly, when data...
2023-10-25 (first published: 2023-10-16)
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Blogs
Fabric as a Data Mesh Enabler: Rethinking Enterprise Data Distribution
By Chris Yates
For decades, enterprises have approached data management with the same mindset as someone stuffing...
Truncate Table Pitfalls
Truncate Table Pitfalls Truncating a table can be gloriously fast—and spectacularly dangerous when used carelessly....
dataMinds Connect 2025 – Slides & Scripts
You can find all the session materials for the presentation “Indexing for Dummies” that...
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DBCC CHECKIDENT
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