Recently I had to read some REST API data using an Azure Logic App. The data itself comes from AFAS, a Dutch SaaS ERP company. In general, the process is mostly the same as reading the data with Azure Data Factory (check out this blog post to learn more): There’s a minor difference in how […]
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Build Once – Add Metadata (the importance of metadata-driven frameworks)
When working in business intelligence, data engineering or data in general, there are some “mantras” that are being adopted by the larger community as “best practices”. For example, I shout “STAR SCHEMA ALL THE THINGS” anywhere I can, because a star schema is the most optimal way to design your model in Power BI. We […]
Logic App errors out when using variables in a SharePoint Action
I have a Logic App that reads out a SharePoint library and stores all the documents found into Azure Blob Storage (ADF only supports Lists). I was trying to make this Logic App “generic”, meaning I could change the source folder and the destination container by using variables. That way, I have one single Logic […]
SharePoint List only returns 100 items in Azure Logic App
I was reading a SharePoint List using the “Get Items” activity in an Azure Logic App. I explain how you can create such a Logic App in the blog post Reading a SharePoint List with Azure Logic App. It all worked fine for a while, but recently the list grew larger than 100 items. Suddenly, […]
Azure Function with PowerShell and the Power BI REST API
In this blog post I’m going to show you how you can create an Azure Function that will interact with the Power BI REST API. I choose PowerShell as the programming language because in my opinion it was a bit easier to authenticate with the Power BI service. For the development environment, I’m using Visual […]
How to Deploy Azure Logic Apps with ARM and Azure Devops
It’s easy to duplicate an Azure Logic App in a resource group, but unfortunately you cannot duplicate a Logic App between environments (you might try to copy paste the JSON though). So unless you want to hand craft every Logic App yourself on each of your environments, you need a way to automatically deploy your […]
Logic Apps and Source Control (with PowerShell)
At a data warehouse project I’m using a couple of Logic Apps to do some lightweight data movements. For example: reading a SharePoint list and dumping the contents into a SQL Server table. Or reading CSV files from a OneDrive directory and putting them in Blob storage. Some of those things can be done in […]
Book Review – Pro Serverless Data Handling with Microsoft Azure
Yet another book review! I just finished the book Pro Serverless Data Handling with Microsoft Azure: Architecting ETL and Data-Driven Applications in the Cloud (what a title :), written by German MVPs (and metalheads) Benjamin Kettner and Frank Geisler. The book handles the topic of “serverless” computing in the Microsoft Data Platform, where serverless is […]
Reading a SharePoint List with Azure Logic App
Sometimes in life you have to do things you really don’t like to do. Such as extracting data from a SharePoint List. Usually I use SSIS and the OData source component for this task, as described in one of my most popular articles ever: Reading SharePoint Lists with Integration Services 2017 (I’m not kidding). However, […]