Azure Data Factory Custom Activity Development–Part 1: Configuration Settings 17. January 2018 NigelMeakins Azure Data Factory, Custom Activities (0) This is the first post in a series on Azure Data Factory Custom Activity Development. Configuration ... [More]
Class Hierarchies, SOLID Code and Json.NET Serialization Part 2 16. January 2018 NigelMeakins IoC Containers, JSON, Dependency Injection, SOLID (0) Back in Part 1 of this series we saw how Json.NET allows us to handle creating derived classes throu... [More]
Class Hierarchies, SOLID Code and Json.NET Serialization Part 1 16. January 2018 NigelMeakins Dependency Injection, JSON, SOLID (1) This is the first in a two-part series on using JSON with class hierarchies and interfaces whilst ad... [More]
Azure Data Factory Custom Activity Development Series 16. January 2018 NigelMeakins Azure Data Factory, Custom Activities (0) Having spent a fair amount of time recently developing custom activities for Azure Data Factory I th... [More]
Embed PowerApps into Power BI Desktop 9. January 2018 Callum-Green Power BI, Power BI Service, PowerApps, Custom Visuals (1) Microsoft’s January 2018 Power BI Desktop update (blog found here) contains quite a few small visual... [More]
The Road to Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) 21. December 2017 terrymccann Azure, MVP (0) It is with great pleasure that I can share with you all that I am now a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable... [More]
Embed PowerApps into Power BI Dashboards – Part 1 15. December 2017 Callum-Green Power BI, Power BI Desktop, Flow, PowerApps, Common Data Service (5) Having read Matt How’s blog (found here) about PowerApps, not only did it get me interested in the t... [More]
Embed PowerApps into Power BI Dashboards – Part 2 15. December 2017 Callum-Green Flow, PowerApps, Power BI Service, Power BI Desktop, Power BI, Common Data Service (1) Part 2 of this blog focuses on my experiences with PowerApps, Flow and Power BI. Part 1 was more of ... [More]
Archiving the Data Lake 13. December 2017 UstOldfield Azure, Big Data, Data Lake, Best Practice (2) In a blog introducing the Data Lake Framework, keen readers will be aware that in the diagram there’... [More]
The thing that stumps everyone new to Azure Data Factory 8. December 2017 EmmaStewart Data Factory, Azure (1) Recently I was playing around with Azure Data Factory and was making my way through an online tutori... [More]
One-way Domain Trust and Power BI 7. December 2017 UstOldfield Power BI, data gateway (0) I ran into a problem setting up on-premises data gateways on a client recently, whereby they had two... [More]
Considerations for Creating a Power BI Enterprise Report Deck 4. December 2017 tristanrobinson Guidelines, Power BI (0) Creating or re-creating an Enterprise report deck in Power BI should be reasonably straight forward ... [More]
LETS Process Data–Modern ETL for the Data Lake 29. November 2017 UstOldfield Azure, Big Data, Data Lake, PASS (0) At the PASS Summit this year, I attended a session by Michael Rys. In this session he introduced the... [More]
An agile waterfall – An approach to transitioning from a waterfall to an agile methodology 24. November 2017 MattWillis Scrum, Waterfall, Methodology, Project Management (0) Many large organisations are embarking on the journey from a waterfall methodology to an agile metho... [More]
PASS Summit 2017 – Coming Soon to the Power BI Service 3. November 2017 Callum-Green Power BI Service, Power BI (2) I recently attended a Power BI Governance session at Pass 2017 and some new features were demoed in ... [More]
Using Lookup, Execute Pipeline and For Each Activity in Azure Data Factory V2 24. October 2017 matthow Data Factory V2, Data Factory, Azure SQL DB, JSON, Pipeline Parameters, For Each Activity, Execute Pipeline, Lookup Activity (12) In my previous blog I looked how we can utilise pipeline parameters to variablise certain aspects of... [More]
Pipeline Parameters in Azure Data Factory V2 23. October 2017 matthow Azure SQL DB, Data Factory, Data Factory V2, Pipeline Parameters, JSON (9) The second release of Azure Data Factory (ADF) includes several new features that vastly improve th... [More]
Power BI Solution Templates: Easy API analytics in the cloud. 19. October 2017 AlexLai Power BI (0) SummaryEarlier this year, an article published by Forbes Online highlighted API’s as a potential dri... [More]
Loop Through Webpages with Multiple Parameters in Power Query 19. October 2017 Callum-Green Power BI Desktop, PowerBI, Power Query, M (4) Back in February 2016, I posted a step by step article (found here) on how to loop through a website... [More]
Master Data in the Cloud 17. October 2017 matthow (1) As data warehouses become more advanced and move to the cloud, Referential Data Management is often ... [More]