A Data Blog
Reading Time: < 1 minute With a well-timed (but much needed) holiday last week I’m just catching up with all the exciting announcements and news coming out of Microsoft’s Ignite conference. I’ve found a few good videos to quickly summarise what’s new and what I’ll...
Reading Time: 2 minutes As a change of pace this week, while I study for the DP-201 exam I’ve been browsing some different content outside of my data engineering bubble. No videos this week but a good selection of content. Enjoy Here’s what I’ve...
Reading Time: < 1 minute This week’s posts have a bit of a theme around Delta Lake with another video walk through from Simon Whiteley and a complimentary post from Ron L’Esteve. Here’s what I’ve been reading and watching this week: Azure Synapse Analytics –...
Reading Time: 2 minutes This past week I’ve been digging about in Azure Databricks and Delta lake while doing some last minute study for Microsoft’s DP-200 exam which I sat, and passed on Monday. 🙌 Yay! It feels good to have the time to...
Reading Time: 2 minutes Here’s some interesting posts and videos that I’ve been looking at this week.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Simplifying data analytics on D365 with the Export to Data Lake feature from the common data service
Reading Time: 6 minutes January Update – Its now late-January and I’m only just publishing this post which is perfect evidence of the endless struggle to find time to fit everything in. I wanted to publish it before the new year which obviously didnt...
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: 3 minutes For DATA:Scotland 2019 we wanted to make it as easy as possible for attendees to leave session feedback for this year’s speakers. It’s an important part of being a speaker and helps us improve our skills. At the same time,...
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...
