Dec 5, 2022 | Azure, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, How To
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, Business Intelligence, Cloud Technology, Microsoft, Uncategorized
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, Microsoft
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, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse, Business Intelligence, Cloud Technology, Consulting, Data Visualization, Databricks, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI, SQL Server
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, Cloud Technology, How To
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...
Sep 13, 2021 | Azure, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Cloud Technology, Microsoft
By: Brad Harris So you’re excited – a brand new cloud data project has just come your way. The project involves designing a solution that provides a hybrid approach for moving data to the cloud. Your client wants to take a step forward in...