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Using Power BI Data Management Gateway on Non-Domain Azure VM
UPDATE AUGUST 2014:There were some changes to the DMG in August 2014. Please refer to my new blog post which addresses the issues with the new version! However, I still recommend you to read this post...
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Using Power BI DMG on Non-Domain Azure VMs – August 2014 Update
In one of my recent posts I explained how to use the Power BI Data Management Gateway to access data hosted in a SQL Server running on an Azure VM. At the time of writing that post the steps to...
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Using Self-Signed Certificates for your Power BI DMG
In my previous post I showed how to setup a Power BI Data Management Gateway on a non-domain Azure VM. The final setup is also the starting-point for this post where we will use self-signed...
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Score whole PowerBI DataSets dynamically in Azure ML
One of the most requested features when it comes to Azure ML is and has always been the integration into PowerBI. By now we are still lacking a native connector in PowerBI which would allow us to query...
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Debugging Custom .Net Activities in Azure Data Factory
UPDATE 2017-02-22: I released a new toolset for Azure Data Factor which also integrates the Customer .Net Activity Debugger from this blob post. Please refer to the new GitHub project:...
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Monitoring Azure Data Factory using PowerBI
Some time ago Microsoft released the first preview of a tool which allows you to monitor and control your Azure Data Factory (ADF). It is a web UI where you can select your Pipeline, Activity or...
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Deploying an Azure Data Factory project as ARM Template
In my last post I wrote about how to Debug Custom .Net Activities in Azure Data Factory locally. This fixes one of the biggest issues in Azure Data Factory at the moment for developers. The next bigger...
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Refresh PowerBI Datasets using PowerShell and Azure Runbooks
In June 2017, Microsoft announced a new set of API function to manage data refreshes in PowerBI. The new API basically allows you to trigger a refresh or retrieve the history of previously executed...
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Upgrading your reports from PowerBI to Azure Analysis Services
Since April 2017 it is possible to build reports on top of datasets that are hosted in the PowerBI service. This was announced and described here and here in more detail. This might not seem like a big...
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Processing Azure Analysis Services with OAuth Sources (like Azure Data Lake...
As you probably know from my last blog post, I am currently upgrading the PowerBI reporting platform of one of my customer from a PowerBI backend (dataset hosted in PowerBI service) to an Azure...
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Using Parameters and hidden Properties in Azure Data Factory v2
Azure Data Factory v2 is Microsoft Azure’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution to schedule and orchestrate data processing jobs in the cloud. As the name implies, this is already the second version...
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PowerShell module for Databricks on Azure and AWS
Over the last year I worked a lot with Databricks on Azure and I have to say that I was (and still am) very impressed how well it works and how it integrates with other services of the Microsoft Azure...
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How-To: Migrating Databricks workspaces
Foreword: The approach described in this blog post only uses the Databricks REST API and therefore should work with both, Azure Databricks and also Databricks on AWS! It recently had to migrate an...
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Professional Development for Databricks with Visual Studio Code
When working with Databricks you will usually start developing your code in the notebook-style UI that comes natively with Databricks. This is perfectly fine for most of the use cases but sometimes it...
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DatabricksPS and Azure AD Authentication
Avaiilable via PowerShell Gallery: DatabricksPS Databricks recently announced that it is now also supporting Azure Active Directory Authentication for the REST API which is now in public preview. This...
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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...
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Upgrading your reports from PowerBI to Azure Analysis Services
Since April 2017 it is possible to build reports on top of datasets that are hosted in the PowerBI service. This was announced and described here and here in more detail. This might not seem like a big...
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Processing Azure Analysis Services with OAuth Sources (like Azure Data Lake...
As you probably know from my last blog post, I am currently upgrading the PowerBI reporting platform of one of my customer from a PowerBI backend (dataset hosted in PowerBI service) to an Azure...
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Using Parameters and hidden Properties in Azure Data Factory v2
Azure Data Factory v2 is Microsoft Azure’s Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution to schedule and orchestrate data processing jobs in the cloud. As the name implies, this is already the second version...
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PowerShell module for Databricks on Azure and AWS
Avaiilable via PowerShell Gallery: DatabricksPS Over the last year I worked a lot with Databricks on Azure and I have to say that I was (and still am) very impressed how well it works and how it...
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