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  • What’s New in Azure Data Factory Version 2 (ADFv2)

    September 24th, 2017 in ADFv2, Azure, Blog, C#, JSON, PowerShell

    I’m sure for most cloud data wranglers the release of Azure Data Factory Version 2 has been long overdue. Well good news friends. It’s here! So, what new features does the service now offer for handling our Azure data solutions?… In short, loads! In this post, I’ll try and give you an overview of what’s new and what to expect from ADFv2. However, I’m sure more questions than answers will be raised here. As developers we…

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  • Chaining Azure Data Factory Activities and Datasets

    August 23rd, 2017 in Azure, Blog, JSON

    As I work with Azure Data Factory (ADF) and help others in the community more and more I encounter some confusion that seems to exist surrounding how to construct a complete dependency driven ADF solution. One that chains multiple executions and handles all of your requirements. In this post I hope to address some of that confusion and will allude to some emerging best practices for Azure Data Factory usage. First a few simple questions: Why is…

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  • Using Azure Data Factory Configuration Files

    January 23rd, 2017 in Azure, Blog, JSON, Visual Studio

    Like most things developed its very normal to have multiple environments for the same solution; dev, test, prod etc. Azure Data Factory is no exception to this. However, where it does differ slightly is the way it handles publishing to different environments from the Visual Studio tools provided. In this post we’ll explore exactly how to create Azure Data Factory (ADF) configuration files to support such deployments to different Azure…

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  • Creating Azure Data Factory Custom Activities

    November 4th, 2016 in Azure, Blog, C#, JSON, Visual Studio

    When creating an Azure Data Factory (ADF) solution you’ll quickly find that currently it’s connectors are pretty limited to just other Azure services and the T within ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) is completely missing altogether. In these situations where other functionality is required we need to rely on the extensibility of Custom Activities. A Custom Activity allows the use of .Net programming within your ADF pipeline.…

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  • Windows IoT UWP Tasks Tickers and Threading

    July 22nd, 2016 in Azure, Blog, C#, IoT, JSON, UWP, Windows

    Upon entering the IoT revolution a few things immediately became apparent; We now had the ability to collect and handle more sensor data than we’d ever before possibly conceived. These sensors and there data will/are going to change the very way we live… Not convinced by this one? Talk to anybody that has a Fitbit attached to their wrist about how many steps they do each day! More relevant to this article. The procedural tools we…

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  • Azure Virual Machine CPU Cores Quota

    June 25th, 2016 in Azure, Blog, JSON

    Did you know that by default your Azure subscription has a limit on the number of CPU cores you can consume for virtual machines? Until recently I didn’t. Maybe like you I’d only ever created one of two small virtual machines (VMs) within my MSDN subscription for testing and always ended up deleting them before coming close to the limit. Per Azure subscription the default quota for virtual machine CPU cores is 20. To clarify because…

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