Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs 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... 06 March 2024 3 min read
Opinion Pieces Simple Talk Editor in Opinion Pieces Writing your 2024 PASS Data Community Summit Submission It is time again for the PASS Data Community Summit Call For Speakers. Some of you are very ready. You... 05 March 2024 10 min read
Ben Johnston in Blogs Friendly Deletes in SQL Server One of the first things you learn when working with SQL Server, and other transactional based SQL systems, is that... 01 March 2024 24 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Customizing Kusto (Data Explorer) Connections in Deployment pipeline When organizing our SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) in Power BI/Fabric, we use Deployment Pipelines and create rules to change connection... 28 February 2024 2 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Eventstream and the new KQL Processing Eventstream has many differences in relation to the technologies it proposes to replace. Event Hub, Stream Analytics, Streaming Dataflows and... 21 February 2024 2 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs 4 Rules to follow on Microsoft Fabric Source Control Power BI and Fabric are implementing source control support. It’s a long-awaited feature for Power BI. However, it’s important to... 14 February 2024 4 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs Planning, the First Step To Failure You probably have heard the saying “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail”. I get the sentiment here,... 09 February 2024 4 min read
Ben Johnston in Blogs Feature Flags in Data Projects My motivation for writing this summary was an interaction with a project owner that didn’t understand why we couldn’t use... 01 February 2024 23 min read
Blogs Simple Talk Editor in Blogs Adding a new AI usage policy to Simple-Talk I used to think plagiarism was my worst thing to deal with as an editor. That is only sort of... 26 January 2024 5 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs 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... 23 January 2024 1 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Fabric and Self-Service: Control who can use We can say Fabric is the evolution of the Power BI environment. Power BI is a self-service environment, and so... 17 January 2024 2 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs Working on Technology Off the Clock I have always spent time learning relational databases on my own, non-work time. As the years have passed, I have... 16 January 2024 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Semantic Model: More than a Simple Name Change The animation on the top of this article tries to track the evolution of the enterprise architecture since SQL Server... 10 January 2024 3 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs Being A Bit Less Comfortable in 2024 I hate coming up with ideas for editorials, but my last editorial of the year gives me a very simple... 03 January 2024 3 min read
Ben Johnston in Blogs Warehouse Load Patterns – Part 2 – Load Patterns This continues and finishes my two-part series on warehouse load patterns. There are many methods to transfer rows between systems... 31 December 2023 29 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs Fabric Notebooks and Deployment Pipelines On my article about Fabric source control extended features, I explained how Microsoft included the notebooks on the source control.... 13 December 2023 8 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs What Counts For a DBA: Duty It has been a long month. We had the PASS Data Community Summit just a month ago, and I came... 08 December 2023 3 min read
Blogs Dennes Torres in Blogs SQL Server: Optimize for Ad Hoc Workloads – use or not use I used to believe this option was something almost absolute: it should be enabled as best practice. I was in... 06 December 2023 5 min read
Dennes Torres Microsoft Fabric: Extended Source Control Features The source control features in Microsoft Fabric are evolving every day. The PBIP feature included in Power BI allowed us... 29 November 2023 3 min read
Ben Johnston in Blogs Warehouse Load Patterns – Part 1 – Requirements and General Patterns No matter the ETL tool used, there are some basic patterns to follow when transferring data between systems. There are... 26 November 2023 28 min read
