Book Review – Azure Data Factory by Example
I just finished the book Azure Data Factory by Example: Practical Implementation for Data Engineers by Richard Swinbank. The book was not exactly what I was expecting, but that’s...
2022-03-29
41 reads
Koen Verbeeck
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Parsing JSON in SQL Server with OPENJSON
Recently I had a piece of JSON of which I needed to extract data from to put into a table in Azure SQL DB. Unfortunately, the structure of the...
2022-03-28
68 reads
Book Review – Mastering Snowflake Solutions: Supporting Analytics and Data Sharing
Disclaimer: Apress gave me a free copy of the book to review. People that know me, also know I always give honest feedback 
I had the pleasure of...
2022-03-23
18 reads
Execute SQL Scripts on Snowflake using Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory has a new activity introduced this week (around the 10th of March 2022 for you future readers): the Script activity! This is not to be confused...
2022-03-13
37 reads
Extracting Data from the AFAS REST API with Azure Data Factory
AFAS is a Dutch business software company, proving companies with ERP and HR software-as-a-service. You can extract data from the service using a REST API (there are also SOAP...
2022-03-07
23 reads
Dynamically Map JSON to SQL in Azure Data Factory
We’re reading in some JSON files in Azure Data Factory (ADF), for example for a REST API. We’re storing the data in a relational table (SQL Server, Azure SQL...
2022-02-28
1,091 reads
T-SQL Linting in an Azure Devops Build Pipeline
Linting is a process where a code analyzer is run to find programmatic errors, bugs, “stylistic constructs” or anti-patterns. For example, in Python there are specific modules that help...
2022-02-28
34 reads
DirectQuery to Power BI Datasets
A new feature has been added to the Power BI Desktop toolset and it’s a very nice one. The official name is “DirectQuery for PBI datasets and AS”. It...
2022-02-25
49 reads
Speaking at Techorama 2022
I’ve received some good news: Techorama is back with an in-person conference! I’m selected as a speaker and I’ll be talking about Azure Data Factory. Azure Data Factory (ADF)...
2022-02-22
1 reads
Convert Local Datetime to UTC (pre-SQL Server 2016)
Recently I was working with a client who was still on SQL Server 2012. Support issues aside, there are some very useful T-SQL functions/clauses who didn’t exist in 2012,...
2022-02-17
12 reads
Blogs
Using Cron in Postgres Flex
pg_cron is a simple cron-based job scheduler for PostgreSQL that runs inside the database...
Can I Change a Primary Key Value? #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I heard someone say recently that you can’t change a primary key value in...
SQL Server Index Primer
By Kevin3NF
Indexes 101: What, Why, and When? “What Is an Index?” I get this question...
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Multiple Collations
Can I have a collation expression like this in SQL Server 2022?
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