Star Schema Merchandising Available
Those of you who follow me on social media (twitter | LinkedIn | mastadon) or who read my blog here, might be familiar with my catchphrase “STAR SCHEMA ALL...
2023-04-06
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Koen Verbeeck
Book Review – SQL Query Design Patterns and Best Practices
Disclaimer: The publisher – Packt – sent me a free copy of the book for the intended purpose of a review. At the time of writing, the book is...
2023-03-15 (first published: 2023-03-05)
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Reading AFAS REST API Data with Azure Logic Apps
Recently I had to read some REST API data using an Azure Logic App. The data itself comes from AFAS, a Dutch SaaS ERP company. In general, the process...
2023-03-13 (first published: 2023-02-26)
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Speaking at Data Saturday Rheinland – Migrating SSIS to ADF
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be talking about how you can migrate your SSIS skills to Azure Data Factory at Data Saturday Rheinland. At the time of writing...
2023-02-24
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Speaking at Techorama 2023
I’m excited to announce I’ve been selected again as a speaker for Techorama 2023. Techorama is one of the biggest Microsoft-focused events in the European mainland, and it’s always...
2023-02-14
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Build Once – Add Metadata
When working in business intelligence, data engineering or data in general, there are some “mantras” that are being adopted by the larger community as “best practices”. For example, I...
2023-02-14 (first published: 2023-02-13)
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Why Managed Identities are Awesome
For the first workdays of this new year, I had the pleasurable task of resetting a bunch of passwords. The passwords belong to Azure AD users, service principals, SQL...
2023-02-15 (first published: 2023-02-01)
511 reads
CONCAT_WS Function Truncates Text
I was writing some dynamic SQL that generates some SQL statements to load my facts and dimensions into a data warehouse. Some of those SQL statements can become very...
2023-02-17 (first published: 2023-01-31)
608 reads
Allow a user to only trigger pipelines in Azure Data Factory
Typically you have a bunch of pipelines that are started by one or more triggers. Sometimes, a pipeline needs to be manually triggered. For example, when the finance department...
2023-02-08 (first published: 2023-01-25)
217 reads
Logic App errors out when using variables in a SharePoint Action
I have a Logic App that reads out a SharePoint library and stores all the documents found into Azure Blob Storage (ADF only supports Lists). I was trying to...
2023-01-30 (first published: 2023-01-18)
71 reads
Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
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A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers