I recently had a new pipeline fail. It was actually a copy of an old pipeline where I had made some adjustments into as part of a database migration....
2025-04-21 (first published: 2025-04-04)
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Suppose you want to call a certain Microsoft Fabric REST API endpoint from Azure Data Factory (or Synapse Pipelines). This can be done using a Web Activity, and most...
2025-04-09 (first published: 2025-04-01)
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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....
2025-03-31 (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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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.
The post Cloudbrew 2024 – Slides first appeared...
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 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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Praise whatever deity you believe in, because it’s finally here, a tenant switcher for Microsoft Fabric (which includes Power BI). A what? Let me explain. When you have a...
2024-11-15 (first published: 2024-11-14)
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By Steve Jones
I heard someone say recently that you can’t change a primary key value in...
By Kevin3NF
Indexes 101: What, Why, and When? “What Is an Index?” I get this question...
By Arun Sirpal
I do believe most people know about the ability to backup your SQL server...
Upgrading an instance of SQL Server 2019 to SQL Server 2022 - I am...
SQL Server SSRS 2022. Running into ' SSL Provider, error: 0 - The target...
SQL Server SSRS 2022. Running into ' SSL Provider, error: 0 - The target...
How can I check what value I used for TEXTSIZE? I ran this code:
SET TEXTSIZE 8096But then deleted the code and couldn't remember. Is there a way to check this? See possible answers