Synapse
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Data Quality ELT With Azure Data Factory
Been a while since my last post – got a few in the backlog now though so will have a trickle of articles coming through in the next few months.…
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Building the Lakehouse Architecture With Azure Synapse Analytics
We’re all largely familiar with the common modern data warehouse pattern in the cloud, which essentially delivers a platform comprising a data lake (based on a cloud storage account like…
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Detecting And Anonymizing PII Data With Azure Synapse Analytics
This isn’t a deep technical post, but more of an attempt to increase awareness of a utility created by Microsoft’s Commercial Software Engineering (CSE) team that allows data engineers to…
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Change Data Capture Upsert Patterns With Azure Synapse Analytics and Databricks
Change Data Capture (Referred to as CDC for the rest of this article) is a common pattern used to capture change events from source databases and push them to a…
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Cross Database Queries With Azure Synapse (Serverless)
I had a recent challenge from a customer that involved the need to join together datasets from different regions and present them as a unified view of data WITHOUT the…
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From Warehouse To Lakehouse – ELT/ETL Design Patterns With Azure Data Services
I like a good pattern. I also like a good framework. From a data perspective, nothing lends itself better to having both of these as ETL/ELT. For those not familiar…
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Building A Logical Data Warehouse With Azure Synapse Analytics
In a previous post I blogged about “Building the Datawarehouse-less Datewarehouse“, which is pattern I’ve always liked wherein we can build a logical star schema across a raw data lake…
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Automating Synapse Analytics Compute Management With Azure Data Factory
Note – whilst I use the term Azure Data Factory in this article, the approach is supported by both Azure Data Factory AND Synapse Pipelines inside your Synapse Workspace Pausing,…
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Adding new python libraries to azure synapse spark pools
This is just a short post, but it’s a prelude to a larger one I’m writing on record-linkage using Synapse Spark Pools with this step being a requisite. Synapse Spark…
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Code Free Batch Scoring with Azure Synapse Analytics and Automated Machine Learning
Azure Automated Machine Learning is an awesome tool. It significantly lowers the bar of entry for data science by allowing folk to submit their datasets to the service, tell it…
