Mattias De Smet

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...

Mar 21 2025

Business Intelligence, Technology

Fabric : Can’t remove my Lakehouse

by Mattias De Smet

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When you want to change your lakehouse strategy (e.g. merging lakehouses without schema to a lakehouse with schema support), or simply cleaning up some POC workspaces you might come across...

Feb 20 2025

Business Intelligence

PowerBI : Git integration for Reports with Live connections

by Mattias De Smet

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Working with Git integration on PowerBI (and Fabric) workspaces helps you overcome a lot of the limitations that working with PowerBI Desktop and PBIX files present. This is quite a...

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...

Dec 20 2024

Azure, Business Intelligence, Uncategorized

Datalake support in SSIS

by Mattias De Smet

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While new data modern data warehouse projects are often started with cloud based ETL products like Azure Data Factory, Synapse or Fabric pipelines, many companies still have a large investment...