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....
2025-03-19 (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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When you create an item in Microsoft Fabric (a notebook, a lakehouse, a warehouse, a pipeline …), you are also the owner of the item. There has been an...
2025-02-05 (first published: 2025-01-29)
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Learn about the differences and challenges with implicit and explicit measures in Power BI.
2025-02-05 (first published: 2025-01-06)
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I wrote a piece of SQL that had some new T-SQL syntax in it: IS DISTINCT FROM. This predicate checks if two expressions are equal taking NULL into account....
2025-01-03 (first published: 2024-06-24)
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I recently read the book Agile Data Warehouse Design – Collaborative Dimensional Modeling, from Whiteboard to Star Schema (quite the title) by Lawrence Corr and Jim Stagnitto. The book...
2024-12-30 (first published: 2024-12-18)
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You can find the slides for the session Building the €100 data warehouse with the Azure Data Platform in this GitHub repo.
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2024-12-13
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I was asked to do a review of the book Microsoft Power BI Performance Best Practices (Amazon link), which means I got a copy for free. The book is...
2024-11-29 (first published: 2024-11-19)
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This book was making its rounds on social media, and the concept seems interesting enough to make me want to read it. It’s a very short book (only 106...
2024-11-22 (first published: 2024-11-12)
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This is a quick blog post, mainly so I have the code available if I need it somewhere in the future 
Sometimes you need a numbers table (also...
2024-11-16 (first published: 2024-11-15)
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By Steve Jones
I was asked about state-based deployments in Flyway Teams, so I decided to show...
By Steve Jones
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. – from...
When Covid took out the PASS organization, I had someone say to me, “Well,...
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