Nine chapters of my data architecture book are available
As I have mentioned in prior blog posts, I have been writing a data architecture book, which I started last November. The title of the book is “Deciphering Data...
2023-09-01
18 reads
As I have mentioned in prior blog posts, I have been writing a data architecture book, which I started last November. The title of the book is “Deciphering Data...
2023-09-01
18 reads
Data lakes typically have three layers: raw, cleaned, and presentation (also called bronze, silver, and gold if using the medallion architecture popularized by Databricks). I talk about this is...
2023-08-28 (first published: 2023-08-09)
323 reads
Since Microsoft Fabric became available, I blogged about it and have an introduction video on Fabric that you can view here. I wanted to follow up with a short 30-minute video...
2023-08-04 (first published: 2023-07-18)
390 reads
As I have mentioned in a prior blog post, I have been writing a data architecture book, which I started last November. The title of the book is “Deciphering...
2023-07-14 (first published: 2023-06-28)
598 reads
I blogged about Microsoft Fabric a few weeks ago, and wanted to follow up with an introduction video that covers the basics so hopefully you will understand the major...
2023-07-05 (first published: 2023-06-19)
450 reads
The HUGE announcement at Microsoft Build yesterday was Microsoft Fabric (see Introducing Microsoft Fabric: Data analytics for the era of AI), now available in public preview. I have been...
2023-06-12 (first published: 2023-05-24)
498 reads
As I have mentioned in prior blog posts, I have been writing a data architecture book, which I started last November. The title of the book is “Deciphering Data...
2023-05-15 (first published: 2023-05-03)
541 reads
I question I have been getting from customers lately is about a data marketplace. What is it, and what products can I use to build it? A data marketplace,...
2023-04-24 (first published: 2023-04-10)
142 reads
As I mentioned in my Data Mesh, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse presentation, the data lakehouse architecture, where you use a data lake with delta lake as a software layer...
2023-03-09
5 reads
Microsoft Purview, formally called Azure Purview (see Azure Purview is generally available) has recently released a number of new cool features. I wanted to call out a few of...
2023-02-22 (first published: 2023-02-09)
414 reads
By Steve Jones
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I have the honour of hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. In case there’s any...
Widgets provide a way to parameterize notebooks in Databricks. If you need to call...
When ASCII(Column) is null, what does it represent? Is this some kind of special/control...
Hello, I created the below script to output 999 rows from SQL Server table...
I have a database on SQL 2019 in an Availability Group (AG) and I...