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

6 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

9 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

9 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

9 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

10 months ago

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

Book Review – Fundamentals of Data Engineering

10 months ago

This book was recommended by some of my colleagues, so I decided to give it a try. After finishing the…

Planview Portfolios REST API with ADF – Retrieving Actual Data

10 months ago

In the introduction of this blog post series, I explained the use case: extracting data from the Planview Portfolios REST…