A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB as the source) that I’ve managed to run into, twice. I’ve set up mirroring by creating a connection using a service principal and this principal has the proper permissions on the source database. Configuring the replication was without issues, and the […]
Tag: azure sql db
Logged in as a member of an Azure AD Group Error while Deploying DACPAC
Quite a long title for a short blog post 🙂While deploying a DACPAC (from a SQL Server Data Tools Database Project) through Azure Devops, I got the following error message: The user attempting to perform this operation does not have permission as it is currently logged in as a member of an Azure Active Directory […]
Free Online Sessions – Building the €100 DWH and Indexing for Dummies
I’m giving two online sessions soon on virtual events that are free to attend. The first one is at Retro Data (20th of September), a new virtual conference focusing on established technology, instead of preview features. My session Building the €100 data warehouse with the Azure Data Platform at 10AM UTC+2. The other session is […]
Book Review – SQL Query Design Patterns and Best Practices
Disclaimer: The publisher – Packt – sent me a free copy of the book for the intended purpose of a review. At the time of writing, the book is yet to be released (the date is set at the 22nd of March 2023). The book SQL Query Design Patterns and Best Practices: A practical guide […]
CONCAT_WS Function Truncates Text
I was writing some dynamic SQL that generates some SQL statements to load my facts and dimensions into a data warehouse. Some of those SQL statements can become very long, for example if a dimension has a lot of columns. When debugging, I noticed a couple of statements failing with various errors. Turns out, they […]
Authentication Error in Azure Devops when Deploying DACPAC
I was building a CI/CD pipeline in Azure Devops, where I was building my SSDT project into a DACPAC file and then deploying it to the development server. For the deployment step, I use the built-in Azure SQL Database deployment task. I was planning on using SQL Server authentication, so I created a SQL user, […]