Microsoft finally adds Tenant Switcher for Fabric / Power BI

1 year ago

Praise whatever deity you believe in, because it's finally here, a tenant switcher for Microsoft Fabric (which includes Power BI).…

Book Review – Humanizing Data Strategy by Tiankai Feng

1 year ago

This book was making its rounds on social media, and the concept seems interesting enough to make me want to…

Free webinar – Tackling the Gaps and Islands Problem with T-SQL Window Functions

1 year ago

I'm hosting a free webinar at MSSQLTips.com at the 19th of December 2024, 6PM UTC. The topic is about window…

dataMinds Connect 2024 – Session Materials

1 year ago

The slides and scripts for my session "Tackling the Gaps & Islands Problem with T-SQL Window Functions" at dataMinds Connect…

Connect to Power BI as a Guest User in another Tenant

2 years ago

Sometimes your Microsoft Entra ID account (formerly known as Azure Active Directory) is added as a guest user in another…

How to use a Script Activity in ADF as a Lookup

2 years ago

In Azure Data Factory (ADF, but also Synapse Pipelines and Fabric Pipelines), you have a typical scenario where you retrieve…

Database Build Error – Incorrect syntax near DISTINCT

2 years ago

I wrote a piece of SQL that had some new T-SQL syntax in it: IS DISTINCT FROM. This predicate checks…

Speaking at dataMinds Connect 2024

2 years ago

I'm very excited to announce I've been selected as a speaker for dataMinds Connect 2024, Belgium's (and maybe/probably/most likely mainland…

Dynamic Warehouse & Lakehouse Connections in Microsoft Fabric Data Pipelines

2 years ago

When you develop data pipelines in Microsoft Fabric (the Azure Data Factory equivalent in Fabric, not to be confused with…

System Views in Microsoft Fabric – Query references an object that is not supported in distributed processing mode

2 years ago

I have a metadata-driven ELT framework that heavily relies on dynamic SQL to generate SQL statements that load data from…