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CDOT Bar Chart Makeover

As I was browsing Twitter today, I noticed a tweet from the Colorado Department of Transportation about their anti-DUI campaign. Shown below, it contains a bar chart that appears...

2021-09-08 (first published: )

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Calculating Age in Power BI

In week 26 of Workout Wednesday for Power BI, I asked people to calculate the age of Nobel laureates at the time they received the award. I provided some...

2021-07-21 (first published: )

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Control Flow Limitations in Data Factory

Control Flow activities in Data Factory involve orchestration of pipeline activities including chaining activities in a sequence, branching, defining parameters at the pipeline level, and passing arguments while invoking...

2021-04-06 (first published: )

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Initial Thoughts on Dremio

I’ve been working on a project for the last few months with a client who has chosen to implement Dremio in Azure. Dremio is a data lake engine that...

2021-03-23 (first published: )

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The Marked Transaction

I want to mark a transaction in the log as a recovery point. How do I do this in my code if I use the transaction, myTran?

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