Tag: api

Mar 28 2025

Fabric : Hidden Collection Reference in Copy Activity

by Mattias De Smet

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In Fabric Data Pipelines, the recommended activity to quickly ingest data is by using Copy Activity. This activity allows you to copy data from various sources to various destinations, when...

Dec 27 2024

Azure

Get notified when Azure secrets are about to expire

by Mattias De Smet

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Using Azure EntraID App Registrations is almost essential for any type of application security or person-independant access to APIs and other autorization flows. Always follow the best practices when setting...

Aug 27 2024

Business Intelligence, Technology

PowerBI : refresh a PowerBI semantic model from a SQLAgent job step

by Mattias De Smet

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The data warehouse technologies and architectures are changing at ever faster pace. Many organisations still have a large investment in a full SQLServer stack to load their data warehouse, but...

Aug 02 2024

Business Intelligence, Technology

PowerBI : bulk PDF generation

by Mattias De Smet

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Generating a PDF from a PowerBI report is simple, there is even a button for that. Or you can subscribe to one and it appears daily in your mailbox. The...

Jul 30 2024

Azure, Business Intelligence, Technology

Fabric : Introduction to Fabric API

by Mattias De Smet

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With Fabric taking a more and more prominent role in working with data and organising your data platform, the need for programmatical access or automation is also increasing. Many of...