Azure Data Factory, dynamic JSON and Key Vault references
Paul Andrews (b, t) recently blogged about HOW TO USE ‘SPECIFY DYNAMIC CONTENTS IN JSON FORMAT’ IN AZURE DATA FACTORY LINKED SERVICES. He shows how you can modify the JSON of a given Azure Data...
View ArticleConnecting Power BI to Azure Databricks
I work a lot with Azure Databricks and a topic that always comes up is reporting on top of the data that is processed with Databricks. Even though notebooks offer some great ways to visualize data for...
View ArticlePowerBI & Big Data – Using pre-calculated Aggregations of Semi- and...
Calculating and visualizing semi- and non-additive measures like distinct count in Power BI is usually not a big deal. However, things can become challenging if your data volume grows and exceeds the...
View ArticleReading Delta Lake Tables natively in PowerBI
Working with analytical data platforms and big data on a daily basis, I was quite happy when Microsoft finally announced a connector for Parquet files back in November 2020. The Parquet file format is...
View ArticleCustom functions and complex return types in Power Query
When working with Power Query, you have probably already realized that every expression you write returns a value of a specific type. Usually this will be a primitive type like text, number, or date....
View ArticleDoing relative-time Slicers properly in Power BI
A very common requirement for a Power BI report that I stumble across at almost all of my customers is to automatically show data for the current day/month/year when a report is opened. At first sight...
View ArticleAutomating the Extraction of BIM metadata from PBIX Files using CI/CD pipelines
The latest updates can always be found in thePowerBI.CICD repository In the past I have been working on a lot of different Power BI projects and it has always been (and still is) a pain when it comes...
View ArticleUsing Power BI Field Parameters to translate Data and Values
When building an enterprise reporting solution with Power BI, a question that always comes up is how to handle translations. Large enterprises operate in various countries where people also speak...
View ArticleDatabricks VSCode Extension – Release v1.0!
As you probably know from my previous posts, my colleagues at paiqo.com and I are constantly working to improve our VSCode extension for Databricks. Almost every month we silently release a new...
View ArticleDatabricks Power Tools for VSCode
As you probably know, we at paiqo have developed our Databricks extension for VSCode over the last years and are constantly adding new features and improving user experience. The most notable features...
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