Dennes Torres

Dennes Torres is a Data Platform MVP and Software Architect living in Malta who loves SQL Server and software development and has more than 20 years of experience. Dennes can improve Data Platform Architectures and transform data in knowledge. He moved to Malta after more than 10 years leading devSQL PASS Chapter in Rio de Janeiro and now is a member of the leadership team of MMDPUG PASS Chapter in Malta organizing meetings, events, and webcasts about SQL Server. He is an MCT, MCSE in Data Platforms and BI, with more titles in software development. You can get in touch on his blog https://dennestorres.com or at his work https://dtowersoftware.com

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13 March 2024
13 March 2024

5 Secrets about Dataflows Gen 2

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Dataflows Gen 2 are the new version of Power BI dataflows. There are so many changes in relation to the previous version they are considered a new feature. The main difference is the possibility to set a target for the result of each query in the dataflow. In this way, it can be used as … Read more
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06 March 2024
06 March 2024

Reverse Creating the PBIP file from Source Control

On my article about Source Control with GIT, Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, I illustrate how to use the PBIP file format to include Power BI reports and semantic models in a source control process and stablish a SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) for Power BI. However, the complete explanation is based on saving the development using … Read more
28 February 2024
28 February 2024

Customizing Kusto (Data Explorer) Connections in Deployment pipeline

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When organizing our SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) in Power BI/Fabric, we use Deployment Pipelines and create rules to change connection configurations every time we promote an object from one environment (dev for example) to another (test, for example). Kusto connections, on the other hand, are not so simple. You can check more about Deployment Pipelines … Read more
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21 February 2024
21 February 2024

Eventstream and the new KQL Processing

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Eventstream has many differences in relation to the technologies it proposes to replace. Event Hub, Stream Analytics, Streaming Dataflows and more. We can compare these technologies, but EventStream in Microsoft Fabric has some specific differences from all of them. One of the differences is how the transformation of the input data is linked to the … Read more
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23 January 2024
23 January 2024

Power BI and Resource Graph: Why you should care

Recently Azure Resource Graph was announced as a new connector in Power BI. Azure Resource Graph provides access to almost all resources inside the azure environment of a company. Why is this important? Resource Graph by itself is a very important tool to analyze the provisioned resources on Azure environment without lose the control of … Read more
17 January 2024
17 January 2024

Fabric and Self-Service: Control who can use

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We can say Fabric is the evolution of the Power BI environment. Power BI is a self-service environment, and so is Fabric. This allows the implementation of very interesting architectures, which will be the subject of future videos and articles. However, it’s not something free-and-easy, and it shouldn’t be. Using Fabric Admin Portal (or Power … Read more
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17 December 2023
17 December 2023

Using Spark Jobs for Multiple Lakehouse Maintenance in Microsoft Fabric

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I have published videos and articles before about Lakehouse maintenance. In this article I want to address a missing point for a lot of Fabric administrators: How to do maintenance on multiple lakehouses that are located in different workspaces. One of the videos I have published explains the maintenance of multiple lakehouses, but only addresses … Read more
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13 December 2023
13 December 2023

Fabric Notebooks and Deployment Pipelines

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On my article about Fabric source control extended features, I explained how Microsoft included the notebooks on the source control. In this way we can include notebooks on a Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for Power BI objects. In this way, the notebooks need to flow from the development environment to test and production environments. However, … Read more
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22 November 2023
22 November 2023

Source Control with GIT, Power BI and Microsoft Fabric

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Source control is fundamental when dealing with projects and sharing code between multiple developers. Power BI present some challenges related to source control. But it’s finally providing us with a solution to these challenges. Let’s analyse this piece-by-piece. According to your previous knowledge, you may would like to skip some section of this article. This … Read more
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