Comparing SSIS Lookup and SQL Joins
Motivating SSIS lookups Denormalization is the most important step to create a Data warehouse. Fundamentally, we do so to populate surrogate key of a dimension in a fact...
Is Artificial Intelligence a threat to Software Engineers?
The fear of the singularity Every threat is an opportunity The Forbes magazine article Software Ate The World, Now AI Is Eating Software reminded me of the movie...
Log Analytics with Python Pandas Explode
Prologue to Analytics with Python I strongly recommend reading this article before you go ahead with this article: Log Analytics using STRING_SPLIT function. This...
What is a Data Hub: Concepts and Guidelines
The V’s of Big Data: Before Data Hub Life was simple when we restricted ourselves to spreadsheets and relational data stores. Data was structured, databases were...
Azure Logic App deployment process with Powershell
Prologue A software product goes through three broad phases viz. development, testing and deployment. The last phase can be approached in multiple ways. One of the ways...
Making ADF Web activity synchronous with Logic App
Prologue It is a common scenario in ETL jobs to send Email Notifications. With Azure Data Factory, such an example can be found in this article. Accordingly, we use web...
Log Analytics using STRING_SPLIT function
Motivating Log Analytics Being a Data Engineer comes with its own set of challenges and opportunities since 80 per cent time is spent on cleaning and munging the raw...
Move Files with Azure Data Factory- End to End
Pre-requisite In the first part of this series, we focused on moving a single file from one blob location to another using ADF. Here is the link for the first part: Move...
Move Files with Azure Data Factory- Part II
Prologue In the first part of this series i.e. Move Files with Azure Data Factory- Part I, we went through the approach and demonstration to move a single file from one...
Move Files with Azure Data Factory- Part I
Why Move Files? A typical ETL process entails extracting the data, transforming it and loading the same in the destination. Firstly, we extract files in a...