Podcast: Azure Data Factory

I’ve been honored to talk with Carlos L Chacon about Azure Data Factory after my session at PASS Summit, and he published the webcast in hist website; SQLDataPartners. Thanks to Carlos and SQLDataPartners for the great opportunity to talk on one of my favorite topics as Data movement with the new technology; Azure Data Factory. Read more about Podcast: Azure Data Factory[…]

Change Set and Approval Workflow in MDS 2016

One of the interesting features of Master Data Services 2016 is Change Set and Require Approval. In prior versions of MDS when you apply a change and publish that change automatically take place in the entity and records. However in the new MDS in SQL Server 2016 you can create a Change Set of your Read more about Change Set and Approval Workflow in MDS 2016[…]

SSIS Catalog Changes in 2016

SQL Server 2016 brings some new features for Integration Services such as AlwaysOn, and Custom Advanced Logging. You’ve probably read about these features in other blog posts, If you haven’t I encourage you to read some of them, like this. These changes also comes with some changes in SSIS Catalog, in this post I’m going Read more about SSIS Catalog Changes in 2016[…]

Be Fitbit BI Developer in Few Steps: Step 3 Visualization

In previous steps you’ve learned how to extract and mash up the data from CSV and automate the process of looping through all CSV files in the source folder. In this step we are going to build visualizations based on the data set we’ve built so far. In this post you will see how easy Read more about Be Fitbit BI Developer in Few Steps: Step 3 Visualization[…]

Be Fitbit BI Developer in Few Steps: Step 2 Loop Through All CSV Files

In the first step you’ve learned how to manipulate and mash up the data with few changes in Power Query M script. In spite of Power BI Desktop not being able to recognize your CSV file correctly because of the header row, you managed to write script and fetch data as you required. However this Read more about Be Fitbit BI Developer in Few Steps: Step 2 Loop Through All CSV Files[…]

Be Fitbit BI Developer in Few Steps: First Step Get Data from CSV

Power BI made things really easy, it isn’t hard to build dashboards and data analysis on almost any types of data sources. Previously in other sections of the online book; Power BI from Rookie to Rockstar I’ve mentioned few data sources and ways of connecting to them. In this post I like to show you Read more about Be Fitbit BI Developer in Few Steps: First Step Get Data from CSV[…]