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For this months T-SQL Tuesday contribution I want to cover the last time I saw code that made me feel something. Erik Darling hosts this months T-SQL Tuesday. Erik invites us all to talk about the last time we saw code that made us feel something. You can read the original invitation by clicking on … Read more
In this post I want to cover one way you can migrate serverless SQL Pool objects to a Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse using Azure DevOps. Since I was able to get this working. To clarify, when I say serverless SQL Pools I mean the ones that are part of Azure Synapse Analytics. Which I covered … Read more
For this months T-SQL Tuesday contribution I want to cover the best piece of career advice that I ever received. Which has the potential to raise some eyebrows. Gethyn Ellis hosts this months T-SQL Tuesday. Gethyn invites us to talk about the best piece of career advice we have ever received. You can read the … Read more
In this post I want to cover one way that you can create your own Microsoft Fabric environment. Plus, this post contains additional content about Fabric git integration and recommended resources. Since I have been asked about both recently. In reality, I covered some parts of this post in my previous post. However, after some … Read more
In this post I want cover how you can test configuring compliance for Microsoft Fabric in your own private environment. So that you get a better idea of the compliance story for Microsoft Fabric. I thought I better write this post since I got asked about compliance during a Microsoft Fabric session I did at … Read more
In this post I want to cover spreading your Power BI wings with Microsoft Fabric. Since I covered Microsoft Fabric from a SQL Server perspective in my last post. Which is part of a series of posts about spreading your SQL Server wings with the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform. You can find out more about … Read more
In this post I want to cover spreading your SQL Server wings with Microsoft Fabric. As part of a series of posts about spreading your SQL Server wings with the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform. You can find out more about this series of posts in an introductory post I published about the series. By the … Read more
In this post I want to cover how to install SqlPackage to work with dacpacs for serverless SQL Pools. I decided to do this post after some feedback I received about SqlPackage after a series of posts about deploying dacpacs to serverless SQL Pools. For example, my post about deploying a dacpac to a serverless … Read more
In this post I want to cover how you can deploy a dacpac to a serverless SQL pool using GitHub Actions. Yes, you are reading that right. It is now possible thanks to a SqlPackage update. Which you can download this update on the ‘Download and install SqlPackage‘ page. In a previous post I covered how … Read more
In this post I want to cover some of the ways I have been looking to improve my GitHub hygiene for Microsoft Data Platform repositories. By following some best practices. To clarify, GitHub hygiene is a term that I use to describe the practice of keeping GitHub repositories healthy. Some of you have probably noticed … Read more