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Calculate Workingdays between 2 Date columnsRecently I have been getting some questions from my customers, can I calculate the number of workdays between 2 dates? Of course my answer was, yes you can. But I do want certain closing dates and holidays of our company not...

Microsoft Fabric is a cloud-based platform that provides integrated data engineering and data science solutions. One of the key features of Microsoft Fabric is the support for Apache Spark, a distributed computing framework that enables large-scale data processing and...

ADF Mapping FlowDid you use the Dataflow preview functionality in Azure Data Factory? This has recently be renamed to Mapping Data Flows.  All video's which the ADF team has created, are collected. Start Here: ADF Data Flow: Overview ADF Data Flow: Data Flow...

Azure Synapse Analytics Code repository‎I just opened my Azure Synapse Analytics Workspace and got a great surprise, the option Git Configuration is available as of today‎.    After a long wait, today the Git Configuration option became available in Azure Synapse...

Parameterize Linked Services For my Azure Data Factory solution I wanted to Parameterize properties in my Linked Services. Not all properties are Parameterized by default through the UI. But there's another way to achieve this.    Linked Service Open your existing...

Azure Purview updatesAnnouncements Last week during SQLBITS, quite a few new updates were announced. I would like to include you in these announcements.March updates Support for SAP Business Warehouse (Preview) Blogpost:...

Calculate the Last DayToday I needed to calculate the last day of the previous month for a Customer.Ever heard from the function EOMONTH? Searching on the web I came across a function I never heard from before EOMONTH, this function can be used as of SQL Server 2012....

Lead Enterprise Architect ProgramFrom the 4th of December until the 6th of December I've joined the LEAP (Lead Enterprise Architect Program) 2018 Data/AI from Microsoft NL. Three  days on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond joining business and technical sessions from a...

Saving a PipelineAnother great improvement in Azure Data Factory. Saving you template!How can you save your template? First of all you need to connect your Azure Data Factory to  a GIT integration. Both Azure DevOps GIT and GitHub are supported. Please follow this...

Azure Purview Ignite 2021 AnnoucementPricing This week the Azure Purview announced that they will extend the Azure Purview offer to provision 4 Capacity Units of the Data Map for free till May 31, 2021! Charging will start on June 1, 2021. Great news for customer who...