Introduction In this article, we will talk about a newly introduced activity in Azure Data Factory, which is the fail activity. The fail activity is very useful to stop or fail the pipeline at the specified point. For example, a lookup activity might return no data or a switch activity executes the default block. We […]
2022-01-24
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Learn about enabling soft-delete for your Azure Storage containers.
2022-01-21
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In this article we look at the similarities and differences of SSIS and Azure Data Factory and provide some insight as to when you would use one over the other.
2022-01-21
Learn about the options to add users to Azure SQL Databases including SQL authentication logins, contained SQL users, contained Azure Active Directory users, mapped logins to users - including code examples you can copy and use immediately.
2022-01-03
Learn how to perform data deduplication for Azure Synapse Analytics using Azure Mapping Data Flows.
2021-12-24
SQL Monitor allows you to bring your whole estate into a single monitoring landscape that has a consistent interface, whether you have an all-Azure environment, or, more likely, a mixed database environment. Find out more, here!
2021-12-17
In this article we look at how ingestion will read data from the landing zone and push data into the Bronze layer of the Delta Lake tables for Azure Synapse Analytics.
2021-12-13
Learn about the changes to the STRING_SPLIT function in Azure SQL Database that allows you to specify ordinal position of the output.
2021-12-03
This article shows how to create a data driven ADF pipeline.
2021-11-22
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It’s possible to query blob storage using SQL, but what about performance? In this article, Dennes Torres compares several query methods to see which one performs the best.
2021-11-12
I posted on Terraform and Azure SQL last year but wanted to see what...
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