Data Masking with Azure Databricks
“Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”— Lewis...
2025-01-24 (first published: 2025-01-13)
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Data Adventures
What I learned volunteering at a children's summer camp
"Stories are where memories go when they are forgotten" - Doctor Who.(2024-Sep-13) As September quickly moves forward, with schools starting and kids returning to their routines, the memories of the...
2024-09-27 (first published: 2024-09-13)
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Extracting PostgreSQL database metadata for presentation in Excel format
(2024-Mar-16) I have been a big fan of using the Excel application for various tasks for more than half of my life. I believe it's the most widely used spreadsheet...
2024-03-25 (first published: 2024-03-16)
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Don't Trust the Defaults
(2024-Mar-08) Software installation typically involves several steps. After accepting the license agreement, you may have an express option to streamline the installation process by accepting all defaults, including the installation...
2024-03-13 (first published: 2024-03-08)
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Handling physical deletes from the source and continue populating your analytical data store
(2023-Oct-15) When something important disappears, it's natural to start asking questions and looking for answers, especially when that missing piece has had a significant impact on your life.Similarly, when data...
2023-10-25 (first published: 2023-10-16)
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Azure DevOps: Enterprise Power BI report deployment with connections to Shared datasets
(2023-July-15) Let's say you have a collection of Power BI .pbix files stored in a git-based source control system (GitHub, Azure DevOps, or any other system). Among these files, one...
2023-08-07 (first published: 2023-07-15)
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Adding microseconds to a timestamp in Azure Data Factory
(2023-Apr-25) It’s not hard to see that many different teams were involved in building Azure Data Factory (ADF) product at Microsoft. It doesn’t have conformed constraints for naming the objects...
2023-05-03 (first published: 2023-04-25)
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Using Azure Data Factory to read and process REST API datasets
(2023-Apr-10) Yes, Azure Data Factory (ADF) can be used to access and process REST API datasets by retrieving data from web-based applications.To use ADF for this purpose, you can simply...
2023-04-19 (first published: 2023-04-10)
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Metadata-driven pipelines in Azure Data Factory | Part 4 - Analytical Processing
(2023-Feb-20) The previous posts covered the following areas of Metadata-driven pipelines in Azure Data Factory:Part 1 - Data CopyPart 2 - Feed ConfigurationPart 3 - Column MetadataThese 3 areas suggested that it is...
2023-03-01 (first published: 2023-02-20)
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Thinking about data points and more …
(2022-Aug-28) Going on a family vacation road trip always fills me with a myriad of happy emotions and expectations to explore new places, see new people and essentially be led...
2022-09-07 (first published: 2022-08-29)
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Blogs
Drop roles in Postgres
You can’t just exec DROP ROLE your_role_name; if it’s granted perms or other roles...
Get a PAT in Azure DevOps
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation recently on Continuous Integration Using Local Agents in Azure DevOps...
The Local OLLAMA Gui
By Steve Jones
I ran a small ollama model in a container and have been doing some...
Forums
Why you should avoid Implicit Measures in your Power BI model
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why you should avoid Implicit...
Calculating Numerator and Denominator
Good evening, I have a rather peculiar issue while trying to calculate Numerator and...
Select statement with in using multiple columns
I inherited a mess. The previous developer did not understand how to set up...
Question of the Day
The AG Synchronous Replicas
In a SQL Server 2022 Enterprise Edition AG, how many replicas can be configured with synchronous commit mode?
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