One of the nice things about the Microsoft Connector for Oracle is that it doesn’t require installation of an Oracle client. But because of this, you may not have...
2023-06-05 (first published: 2023-06-03)
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The April 2023 release of Power BI desktop introduced a new preview feature called dynamic format strings for measures. This allows us to return values with different formats from...
2023-05-01 (first published: 2023-04-21)
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Did you know that you can change the browser used by SQL Server Management Studio to authenticate using Azure Active Directory to a SQL database in Azure? I had...
2023-04-12 (first published: 2023-03-28)
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In February 2023, Microsoft released some new Power BI themes that are more accessible than the other themes available by default. The blog post mentions the prevalence of color...
2023-02-25 (first published: 2023-02-24)
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I had to do this for a client the other day, and I realized I hadn’t blogged about it. Let’s say you need to include data in a Power...
2023-02-06 (first published: 2023-01-24)
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In early 2022, Microsoft released a new activity in Azure Data Factory (ADF) called the Script activity. The Script activity allows you to execute one or more SQL statements...
2023-01-09 (first published: 2022-12-22)
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People have done creative things with SVG measures in Power BI, ranging from KPI cards to infographics to fun games. For my latest Workout Wednesday challenge, I used SVG...
2022-12-28 (first published: 2022-12-15)
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There are multiple ways organizations can engage with a data (DBA/analytics/data architect/ML/etc.) consultant. The type of engagement you choose affects the pace and deliverables of the project, and the...
2022-12-26 (first published: 2022-12-06)
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Unity Catalog in Databricks provides a single place to create and manage data access policies that apply across all workspaces and users in an organization. It also provides a...
2022-12-07 (first published: 2022-11-23)
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I’ve seen a few people start Azure Data Factory (ADF) projects assuming that we would have one source control repo per environment, meaning that you would attach a Git...
2022-11-09 (first published: 2022-10-31)
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Well, turns out code signing is pretty complex, so I’m writing this blog post...
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For those that attended my talk at Denver Dev Days, here are the slides:...
By Steve Jones
As a part of my AI experiments, I decided to ask CoPilot to write...
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Our IT department contacted me recently and asked if they should change the default...
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