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Technical Leadership Centred Around the Microsoft Data Platform
As a result of the pandemic like many other community speakers I've taken to YouTube as the current method for sharing knowledge and content. Recording video's isn't as much fun as speaking at a physical event, but it partially ticks the box. Plus, my daughter thinks its "cool" that I have a YouTube channel, so … Continue reading Capturing YouTube Video Views with Azure Data Factory
Code Project Overview This open source code project delivers a simple metadata driven processing framework for Azure Data Factory (ADF). The framework is delivered by coupling ADF with an Azure SQL Database that houses execution stage and pipeline information that is later called using an Azure Functions App. The parent/child metadata structure firstly allows stages … Continue reading ADF.procfwk v1.5 – Power BI Dashboard for Framework Executions
How nice is this!... All the Microsoft Ignite announcements in one place. Very cool. Data Platform and AI things in chapter 3, starting on page 39. Sadly not that many new things for us data people this year, but still, its all great news. Azure Synapse Analytics seems to be the main data platform news, … Continue reading Microsoft Ignite 2019 Announcements – The Ignite Book of News 2019
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
Welcome to the Blog & Website of Paul Andrew 