Book Review – Humanizing Data Strategy by Tiankai Feng

5 months 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

6 months 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

6 months 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

7 months 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

10 months 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

10 months 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

10 months 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

10 months 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

10 months ago

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

PostgreSQL error in Fabric Pipelines – No pg_hba.conf Entry for Host

11 months ago

I came across a bit of a weird error when I was trying to connect to a PostGreSQL database (hosted…