I needed to run a PowerShell cmdlet in an Azure Devops pipeline. The cmdlet in question was New-AzRoleAssignment, but the cmdlet itself isn’t important. What is important is that...
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When you create linked services in Azure Data Factory (ADF) or in a Synapse Workspace, you typically want to parameterize certain properties of the connection. When you deploy your...
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I’m presenting a free webinar at MSSQLTips.com at Thursday, July 10, 2025 at 6PM UTC (8PM CET or 2PM EDT). The abstract: As you might learn from the abstract,...
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You can find the slides for my session Building the €100 data warehouse with the Azure Data Platform on GitHub.
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Disclaimer: this post is not sponsored by Redgate 🙂 For those who’ve missed it, the new version of SSMS is now generally available. It’s a big new version and...
2025-05-21
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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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I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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