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Data is being created faster than ever, and in more locations than organizations can track. Data may be stored on-premises, across different public clouds, and in many software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Despite its importance, most organizations aren’t prepared to properly govern all this data. Many organizations don’t know what data they…

Performance tuning dataset refresh in Power BI — The almighty Chris Webb recently did a presentation on performance tuning dataset refresh in Power BI! I always find it helpful to write things down (or type things out) to help my 🧠 to soak all this up! I hope you may find this useful! Why is refresh performance important? Your…

Storage accounts Why do I need three separate storage accounts? Can’t I just have one with three containers for each layer (raw, refined, and curated)? Most data analytics patterns today exist with the three layers of raw, refined, and curated. Although they can be kept in the same storage, when it comes to large-scale implementations it creates issues with exceeding the number of allowed role-based access control (RBAC) and access control list (ACL) permissions that…

The Azure Synapse Influencer program recognizes Azure Synapse Analytics community members who actively support one another by sharing Synapse-related content, announcements, and product news via social media. Azure Synapse Influencers range in expertise and engagement level, but they all share one common goal — to help others get connected and…

Microsoft has recently launched a new Power BI Known Issues page. This is an example of their continued effort to increase users’ confidence in our transparency, awareness of issues, and dedication to improving customers’ success. The top-level page lists the current and recently closed known issues for Power BI. To…

Azure landing zones are the output of a multi-subscription Azure environment that accounts for scale, security governance, networking, and identity. Azure landing zones enable application migration, modernization, and innovation at enterprise-scale in Azure. These zones consider all platform resources that are required to support the customer’s application portfolio and don’t…

You know Microsoft loves renaming their products! With the integration of Azure Purview and Microsoft 365 Compliance that they shared in the past, they’ve taken that integration even deeper and combined the two products to under one and has now been renamed to Microsoft Purview — a comprehensive set of…

Power BI has a vibrant community of BI professionals and developers. A vital part of that community are contributors that create free tools that use Power BI and Analysis Services APIs to extend and integrate with Power BI Desktop’s data modeling and reporting features. The External Tools ribbon provides easy…

Azure control plane and data plane — Azure operations can be divided into two categories — control plane and data plane. You use the control plane to manage resources in your subscription. You use the data plane to use capabilities exposed by your instance of a resource type.