For my new mission, I set out to convert a list of files from Excel to comma-separated values (CSV). We upload the original Excel files to a Data Lake in Fabric. We then need to convert a specific worksheet and move the CSV files to a different folder in Data Lake.
Over the past years, the tool dbt – short for data build tool – has become quite popular in the data engineering world for handling such an ELT process. dbt takes on the role of the “T”, meaning it’s responsible for transforming the data in a certain data store.
How to create a connection for StreamLit and Snowflake to upload data for visualization
How we handle data warehousing updates to dimension tables is crucial and this article covers Slowly Changing Dimensions versus overwriting tables.
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Today Steve talks about big data sets and whether we really need them, or even enjoy working with them.
PASS Data Community Summit will return to Seattle next year! Save the date for this incredible in-person event for global data professionals, which will take place at Summit, Seattle Convention Center, from November 17-21, 2025!
I was asked recently why Halloween Protection was needed for data modification statements that include a self-join of the target table. This gives me a chance to explain, while also covering some interesting product bug history from the SQL Server 7 and 2000 days.
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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?