Dec 5, 2022 | Azure, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks
By: Brad Harris The Problem Over the past couple of months, I have been working with Azure Data Factory (ADF) in a project where we are migrating all of our on-prem data to the cloud using a combination of Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks....
Sep 26, 2022 | Azure, Azure Cosmos DB
By: Brad Lathrop Are you exploring database options? Considering moving data to the cloud? Work for a company that utilizes a plethora of Microsoft products? If you answered yes to any of those questions, chances are you may have come across Azure Cosmos DB at...
Sep 16, 2022 | Azure, Azure Machine Learning
By: Brad Lathrop Azure Databricks is a Microsoft data analytics platform that’s “optimized for the Microsoft Azure cloud services platform” (1). It has three environments developers can choose from to create applications: Databricks Machine Learning Databricks...
Aug 12, 2022 | Azure, Microsoft Power BI
By: Ken Adams Over the last number of years our company, Key2 Consulting, has seen a shift in our clients’ desires to move to the cloud. We historically were a business intelligence shop that mostly architected on-premise solutions. Creating these solutions...
Mar 9, 2022 | Azure, Azure Data Factory
By: Shannon Nagy When transitioning from on-premise ETL processes with SQL Server to the cloud with Azure, you may be used to dealing with large numbers of SSIS packages in order to perform data movement operations on many tables at once. You may have even...
Nov 29, 2021 | Azure, Data Security, Databricks
By: Phillip Sharpless When building solutions with Azure Databricks (see my previous blog post on Databricks for a quick overview of the analytics service), it’s more than likely that the need to access secure data will arise. Access to some data may require...