I am honored to deliver a Training Day session at SQLBits 2023: A Day of Azure Data Factory is a full-day Training Day session scheduled for Tuesday, 14 Mar 2023. In this session I cover version control integration, copying data, using parameters and metadata, design patterns (of course!), and more! I hope to see you …
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This post is for people interested in setting up an instance of SQL Server 2022 Developer Edition for personal use. If you are interested in configuring an instance of SQL Server 2022 for production purposes, you should not use Developer Edition – it’s not for production workloads by design and according to the EULA. SQL …
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This is part of a series of posts. This post focuses on connecting an Azure Data Factory to a GitHub repository. One Way to Add an Existing Data Factory to Github, Part 1 One Way to Add an Existing Data Factory to Github, Part 2 One Way to Add an Existing Data Factory to Github, …
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I am honored to deliver two training sessions at the PASS Data Community Summit 2022: A Day of Azure Data Factory is a full-day pre-conference session scheduled for Monday, 14 Nov 2022. In this session I cover version control integration, copying data, using parameters and metadata, design patterns (of course!), and more! Introduction to Azure …
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Update: SSIS Catalog Compare 2022 is generally available! SSIS Catalog Compare 2022 (Beta) is available at a dramatically-reduced yearly subscription rate at the time of this writing. The yearly subscription rate will increase when SSIS Catalog Compare becomes generally available (GA). Those willing to help out by testing the beta version (in Development and Test environments …
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SSIS Catalog Compare 2022 (Beta) is available at a dramatically-reduced yearly subscription rate at the time of this writing. The yearly subscription rate will increase when SSIS Catalog Compare becomes generally available (GA). Those willing to help out by testing the beta version (in Development and Test environments only, please!) will enjoy the beta yearly …
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SQL Server 2022 Community Technology Preview 2.0 is available, and it includes the SSIS Catalog! Create an SSIS Catalog At the time of this writing, the SSIS 2022 Catalog is similar (identical, perhaps) to the SSIS 2019 Catalog. Connect to a SQL Server 2022 instance using SSMS and right-click the Integration Services Catalogs node in …
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A couple / three days after delivering the April 2022 edition of Master the Fundamentals of Azure Data Factory (the next delivery is 20 May 2022 – check out Enterprise Data & Analytics Training to register and save money!), I got an email from Azure informing me my account had been disabled because I reached …
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On 17 Feb 2022, I first saw the Microsoft announcement of the public preview of Azure-SSIS integration runtimes in Azure Synapse Analytics. I blogged about the announcement in a post titled Azure-SSIS Integration Runtime now available in Azure Synapse Analytics. I am excited to share one way for you to provision an Azure-SSIS IR in …
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Many Azure Data Factory developers recommend creating an Azure Integration Runtime for use with Mapping Data Flows. Why? One reason is you cannot configure all the options in the default AutoResolveIntegrationRuntime supplied when an Azure Data Factory instance is provisioned. At the time of this writing, it’s not obvious how one creates an Azure Integration …
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