Technical skills come and go while soft skills will serve you throughout your life. They will have the greatest influence over your career, job and role. For some people soft skills come naturally. As an Aspergers person (Aspie) I have to practice my soft skills at every opportunity. Pure techies need not lose hope. Soft […]
In this article we cover the topic of data wrangling which is steps you can take to cleanup and validate data prior to data analysis.
This article will describe how to add your local timestamp at the end of the each file in Azure Data Factory (ADF). In general, ADF gets a UTC timestamp, so we need to convert the timestamp from UTC to EST, since our local time zone is EST. For example, if the input Source file name […]
Security roles can simplify permissions in SQL Server. In this article, Greg Larsen explains fixed server and database roles.
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In this installment of the Stairway to Integration Services, Andy Leonard shows you how to execute packages synchronously or asynchronously.
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In this article we walk through an example of using Power Query to transform source data that can be used in a Power BI report.
Introduction This article will help you install the Docker Desktop for Mac. Before we show that, let us start by understanding what the Docker Desktop software can do for you. To understand Docker, we need to understand what a container is. If you remember a few years ago, the only way of deploying application code […]
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I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?