A Data Blog
Reading Time: 2 minutes After publishing the first few posts in my series on CI/CD for Azure Data Factory, I got stuck into the next installment, released yesterday, on how to handle Integration runtimes (which argueably should have come first🤫). This will be my...
Reading Time: < 1 minute This week’s list is a little late as I wanted to make a last-minute addition of Shane’s post at the top there, just published yesterday. Also, it’s been a slow week for learning as I concentrate on some work projects...
Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m continuing the theme of #Hacktoberfest this week with another link on contributing to open source down the bottom. Beyond that I’ve been working on some Azure Databricks Delta lake basics to help with explaining it to others. Thanks to...
Reading Time: 2 minutes Here’s some interesting posts and videos that I’ve been looking at this week.
Reading Time: 3 minutes CodeSnippets #4 With the introduction of Power BI Dataflows in April 2019 the ability to interrogate this new feature using the REST API landed soon after (unlike this blog post!). Like datasets, you can refresh your dataflows using the API....
Reading Time: 6 minutes The Power BI REST API opens a wealth of capabilities in consuming metadata about your content as well as batch processing of security changes, content deployment and backups of deployed reports. Although I talk specifically about Power BI, these methods...
Reading Time: 3 minutes CodeSnippets #3 An all too common “feature” of business applications and tooling is the lack of power user functionality, to automate, integrate and script actions beyond the usual user-friendly drag and drop interfaces and Scribe Online is no different. I’ve...
Reading Time: 6 minutes I want to share an application I use when setting up a new machine or recovering from a re-install of Windows, called Chocolatey. Since I started using Chocolatey, I find a 50/50 split of people I talk to that have...
Reading Time: < 1 minute CodeSnippets #1 I have an idea to do a series of short blog posts over the year with helpful PowerShell functions, SQL code or problems I’ve encountered. The kind of thing I wouldn’t bother writing about as it would barely...
Reading Time: < 1 minute This is something I worked on about a year ago, implementing before I left my previous employer. We had a massive overhead for managing our Reporting Services (SSRS) environments and this became a win-win solution for security and administration. It...
