DevOps for Azure Workbooks

In parts 1 and 2 of this series, I've looked at the different ways of getting more out of your Azure Workbooks on the visual and data side. The last thing I want to talk about is the Development and DevOps flows of the workbooks…

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Tips for using Azure Workbooks - Part 2

Continuing from the previous post, let's get into some of the more advanced things to get more out of your workbooks. Some of these might need further development on your part, but hopefully you'll be able to get an overview of how you could use the same techniques to fit your own use cases.…

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I've been awarded the Microsoft Azure MVP title!

Exciting times! This Monday I was notified that my nomination for the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award had been evaluated and I was awarded the title in the Azure category. If you're not from the Microsoft scene, you might not be familiar with what this is, so let's take a look.…

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AZ-500 Study Guide

I recently passed the AZ-500: Azure Security Engineer Associate certification, and thought that now that most of the world is under some level of COVID-19 related quarantine, what better way to spend one's time than study for a certification test. This study guide aims to help with that process.…

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Troubleshooting Azure Data Factory v2 Git integration

We recently changed some of our application resource structures. During this change, we ran into an error message "The publish branch is out of sync with the collaboration branch. This is likely due to publishing outside of Git mode." during our publish. Here's how we solved the issue.…

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Figuring out undocumented ARM templates

I've recently run into several situations where something that is configurable from the Azure Portal is not anywhere in the ARM documentation. This blog post will go through my process of figuring out how to implement those in ARM anyway.…

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Automating .NET EF Core SQL Migration scripts

We wanted to generate migration scripts in our build steps and then separately run them against our SQL database in the release pipeline. This was fairly straightforward on paper, but in our situation turned out to include some gotchas I was not aware of before.…

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DevOps flow in Azure Data Factory V2

I've recently had the opportunity to get a bit more familiar with Azure Data Factory V2. Here are some of my findings regarding the DevOps side of the product.…

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