I was reading a SharePoint List using the “Get Items” activity in an Azure Logic App. I explain how you can create such a Logic App in the blog...
2022-07-15 (first published: 2022-06-27)
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Power BI field parameters are a new feature in Power BI Desktop, and it’s one of the best of the past months. In short, Power BI field parameters allow...
2022-06-17
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I’m very excited to announce I’ll be giving a session at the 15th edition of dataMinds Connect (in the beginning it was called SQL Server Day(s)). It will be...
2022-06-17 (first published: 2022-06-16)
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You can find my slidedeck for the session “Introduction to Azure Data Factory” on Github:https://github.com/KoenVerbeeck/SessionMaterials All demos given in the session are explained in the ADF tutorial at MSSQLTips.com.
The...
2022-05-25
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… with this one weird little trick 🙂 Sorry for the clickbait, but you can actually save a lot on ADF pricing if you design your pipelines carefully. And...
2022-06-01 (first published: 2022-05-11)
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I’m delighted to announce I’m participating in a panel discussion about data warehouse modernization. The full title is “Data Warehouse Modernization – Crafting a Successful Migration Strategy Post Pandemic”....
2022-05-05
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In the blog post Azure Function with PowerShell and the Power BI REST API I explained how you could create an Azure Function using the PowerShell scripting language. This...
2022-05-16 (first published: 2022-04-27)
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In this blog post I’m going to show you how you can create an Azure Function that will interact with the Power BI REST API. I choose PowerShell as...
2022-05-06 (first published: 2022-04-26)
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It’s easy to duplicate an Azure Logic App in a resource group, but unfortunately you cannot duplicate a Logic App between environments (you might try to copy paste the...
2022-04-29 (first published: 2022-04-21)
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At a data warehouse project I’m using a couple of Logic Apps to do some lightweight data movements. For example: reading a SharePoint list and dumping the contents into...
2022-05-25 (first published: 2022-04-20)
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By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
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I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers