A tool I've used in the past to query my local disk drives is WinDirStat. It's great for finding out where large files are hiding in your directories using a heat map visual. In this post I talk you through how I've created a similar tool for Azure Data Lake Store using PowerShell, SQL Server … Continue reading Azure Data Lake Store – Files Dashboard
Inject into Azure Logic Apps ARM Templates with PowerShell
Continuous delivery of data services has always been a battle for us data analytics peeps. Things are getting better when we think about business intelligence and dev ops, however there are still gaps. This blog post is an account of one such issue I recently faced and how I worked around the problem. Problem While … Continue reading Inject into Azure Logic Apps ARM Templates with PowerShell
My First MVP Summit
Having only been honoured with my Data Platform MVP award in July 2017 this March was my first MVP Summit. For me, this is the reward for all the hard work and community contributions throughout the year and beyond. It’s an opportunity to rub shoulders (drink beer) with the Microsoft product teams, engineers and group … Continue reading My First MVP Summit
Moving On
The English Version It is with a heavy heart that I am announcing my departure from Purple Frog Systems. It has been just shy of 2 wonderful years with the Shropshire based company, but it is now time to move on to pastures new. I joined Purple Frog Systems in March 2016 following an intense … Continue reading Moving On
Azure Data Factory v2 Developer Interface Launched
Its finally here!! After being teased for nearly 4 months with all the great new functionality available in Azure Data Factory version 2 we finally have the tools to start developing it. Microsoft, it appears, have leap frogged my long standing request and feedback votes to support ADF templates in Visual Studio 2017 and gone … Continue reading Azure Data Factory v2 Developer Interface Launched
Azure Data Factory v1 & v2 Service Principal Authentication for Azure Data Lake
Sadly this post has been born out of frustration, so please accept my apologies from the outset if that comes across in the tone. That said, I imagine anyone reading it will empathise and will have come across the post while searching for an understanding of some inconsistencies when using service principals to authenticate against … Continue reading Azure Data Factory v1 & v2 Service Principal Authentication for Azure Data Lake
Using U-SQL Split to Handle Variable Width Datasets
Happy New Year folks and welcome back to work! I hope you had a nice break. 🙂 I decided to kick off the new year of blogging with something fairly simple following some support work I did helping out a friend in the community. The problem encountered was twofold when dealing with data in Azure … Continue reading Using U-SQL Split to Handle Variable Width Datasets
