Everyone who knows me, knows I’m a Microsoft data platform professional. I do prefer their solutions over most other solutions. I know there have been a few times when I’ve shocked my coworkers when I’ve suggested Couch, Redis or some other NoSQL solution as a solution to a particular problem. The one that you’ve never heard me…
Year: 2017
SQL Azure and Azure Active Directory: Part Two
After getting AD Password Authentication working with my Azure SQL server, I moved on and set up a local Active Directory domain on my home network. I don’t think this is something every data professional should try and tackle. I count myself extremely fortunate to have made friends with IT professionals outside the data space, and…
SQL Azure and Azure Active Directory
f you’ve been working with Azure in the last few years, you’ve noticed there is a relatively new feature that’s supposed to make identity management easier with your Azure solutions: Azure Active Directory (AAD). This feature does work with Azure SQL Servers and Azure SQL Databases. But it may not completely plug and play. In…
SSIS Parameters and Sensitive Information
One of the questions I get when teaching others how to use Biml is how do you deal with sensitive information like usernames and passwords in your Biml Solution. No one wants to leave this information in plain text in a solution. You need access to it while interrogating your sources and destination connections for metadata….
Biml Solutions and Limited Rights
Handling source system metadata changes automatically are pretty easy with BimlScript. There are several solutions available online check here, here, and here. Recently, a client brought up a scenario that put a kink in the usual solution. The client supported multiple tenants, and they wanted to segregate the tasks of handling the metadata changes from…
BimlExpress Directions for the Interrogator
The Biml Interrogator demo was designed to show Biml Developers how to extract useful metadata from sources that do not natively support it. Originally it was designed for delimited text files and Excel files, but it could be used for other sources with a little work. My demos walk you through the different steps you’d…
Biml Interrogator using BimlStudio
I’m pulling the directions for using the interrogator out of the main page into this separate page since I don’t have the project files on hand. You can use the BimlExpress files with these instructions, but you will need to adjust the code slightly. If you run in to troubles, let me know. Open Biml\Interrogator\BimlStudio…