In the blog post Call a Fabric REST API from Azure Data Factory I explained how you can call a Fabric REST API endpoint from Azure Data Factory (or...
2025-05-16 (first published: 2025-04-28)
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I recently had a new pipeline fail. It was actually a copy of an old pipeline where I had made some adjustments into as part of a database migration....
2025-04-21 (first published: 2025-04-04)
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Suppose you want to call a certain Microsoft Fabric REST API endpoint from Azure Data Factory (or Synapse Pipelines). This can be done using a Web Activity, and most...
2025-04-09 (first published: 2025-04-01)
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I’m doing a little series on some of the nice features/capabilities in Snowflake (the cloud data warehouse). In each part, I’ll highlight something that I think it’s interesting enough to share....
2025-03-31 (first published: 2025-03-17)
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I recently took and passed the DP-700 exam, which is required for the Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate certification. It’s the second Fabric certification, and it focuses more...
2025-03-17 (first published: 2025-03-05)
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When you create an item in Microsoft Fabric (a notebook, a lakehouse, a warehouse, a pipeline …), you are also the owner of the item. There has been an...
2025-02-05 (first published: 2025-01-29)
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I recently read the book Agile Data Warehouse Design – Collaborative Dimensional Modeling, from Whiteboard to Star Schema (quite the title) by Lawrence Corr and Jim Stagnitto. The book...
2024-12-30 (first published: 2024-12-18)
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You can find the slides for the session Building the €100 data warehouse with the Azure Data Platform in this GitHub repo.
The post Cloudbrew 2024 – Slides first appeared...
2024-12-13
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I was asked to do a review of the book Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices (Amazon link), which means I got a copy for free. The book is...
2024-11-29 (first published: 2024-11-19)
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This is a quick blog post, mainly so I have the code available if I need it somewhere in the future 🙂 Sometimes you need a numbers table (also...
2024-11-16 (first published: 2024-11-15)
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I was sick of changing context in Azure Data Studio while cleaning up things...
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In SQL Server, when the buffer manager write pages to disk, page protection is added to the pages. There are two types of protection: torn page protection and checksum page protection. What happens with regards to concurrency with page protection during writes?
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