Azure Data Factory and the Case of the Missing JRE That Wasn’t
On a recent project I used Azure Data Factory (ADF) to retrieve data from an on premises SQL Server 2014...
2017-05-11 (first published: 2017-05-01)
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Data Savvy
I Like to Move It, Move It – But Azure Data Factory Doesn’t
I’ve spent the last couple of months working on a project that includes Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Warehouse. ADF...
2017-04-11
613 reads
Insufficient Disk Space (T-SQL Tuesday #88)
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday – hosted by Kennie T Pontoppidan(@KennieNP) – is called “The daily (database-related) WTF“. He asked us to be...
2017-03-27 (first published: 2017-03-14)
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Copying data from On Prem SQL to ADLS with ADF and Biml – Part 2
I showed in my previous post how we generated the datasets for our Azure Data Factory pipelines. In this post, I’ll...
2017-03-21 (first published: 2017-03-10)
1,743 reads
Copying data from On Prem SQL to ADLS with ADF and Biml – Part 1
Apologies for the overly acronym-laden title as I was trying to keep it concise but descriptive. And we all know...
2017-03-03
626 reads
Please Lend Me Your Vote for Documentation of TMSCHEMA DMVs
I spent a good bit of time looking for the definitions/descriptions of the TMSCHEMA DMVs that allow us to view...
2016-11-07
775 reads
Process Compatibility Level 1200 SSAS Tabular Model from SSIS 2014
A client wanted to upgrade their SSAS model to SSAS 2016 to take advantage of some of the features of...
2016-10-21 (first published: 2016-10-14)
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Documenting your Tabular or Power BI Model
If you were used to documenting your SSAS model using the MDSchema rowsets, you might have noticed that some of them...
2016-10-05
1,409 reads
BYO Time Zone Conversion With SSAS DMVs
This is just a quick note (since I apparently forgot and was puzzled for a moment) that the MDSCHEMA_CUBES DMV...
2016-09-21
498 reads
DAX Date Dimension and Fun with Date Math
I was working on a SSAS Tabular 2016 solution for a project for which I had no data (an empty...
2016-09-03
659 reads
Blogs
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions IV
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^D', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers