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 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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04 October 2023
04 October 2023

Fabric: My Content compilation

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Microsoft Fabric was first announced during Microsoft BUILD. Since then, I’m publishing content about Microsoft Fabric, creating an interesting sequence of content. In this blog, I’m summarizing the content I published about Fabric, helping you to navigate on this content. Main Articles As you may have noticed, there is one article about concepts, one about … Read more
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13 September 2023
13 September 2023

Microsoft Fabric: using Notebooks and Table Partitioning to Convert Files to Tables

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When Microsoft Fabric was born, the only method to convert files to tables was using notebooks. Nowadays we have an easy-to-use UI feature for the conversion. As I explained on the article about lakehouse and ETL, there are some scenarios where we still need to use notebooks for the conversion. One of these scenarios is … Read more
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14 August 2023
14 August 2023

Discover the Microsoft Fabric Data Wrangler

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The Data Wrangler is as interesting as hidden inside Microsoft Fabric. It’s not easy to find and activate it, but it is worth the trouble. Before digging into the Data Wrangler, let’s analyze the data features in the query environment. Data Features in Query Environment The new query environment, which allow us to make data … Read more
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02 August 2023
02 August 2023

Managing Query Store Hints

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I wrote about query store hints before when they were first released in Azure SQL databases. However, there are some tricks related to managing query store hints we will explore on this blog post. Applying Query Store Hint When we apply a query store hint, the query already exists in query store, and it has … Read more
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06 June 2023
06 June 2023

Power BI Connections Management

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Some time between January and now, a new preview feature was included in Power BI Portal. It’s a new Manage Connections and Gateway window, still in preview. We can access this option on the Settings button. In the past, the connections were related to on-premises data gateways. For each gateway we could create many connections … Read more
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