(2021-Jan-19) I was raised listening and reading fairy tales where the main character would reach a crossroad with a large stone that had some directions written on it – turn...
2021-01-19
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(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...
2021-01-20 (first published: 2021-01-12)
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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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Data Saturday #2 – Guatemala is tomorrow. This is the first event on the...
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
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