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Martin Schoombee
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I help customers make sense of their data, using Microsoft technologies.
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Man I love Chocolatey!
November 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
28twelve.consulting
They might be using AWS...anyway, how's your day going so far?
October 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Day 2...
October 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
28twelve.consulting
Diving head-first into the bowels of Fabric today...wish me luck :-/
October 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
28twelve.consulting
How many times have you run this pipeline today? "Yes"
October 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
28twelve.consulting
I know I'm knit-picking here, but is it too much to ask to have clear messaging?
Image of a Windows Update pop-up status message.
September 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
28twelve.consulting
Does anybody else find the DevOps/Git integration with Power BI workspaces somewhat buggy?
August 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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If there wasn't enough proof that we're living in the twilight zone, Varigence just announced a Biml update for SSIS 2022. After 6 years of absolute silence...can't make this stuff up.
August 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Want to speak at SQL Saturday Boston 2025?
🗣️ Share your expertise, grow your brand & give back!

Call for Speakers closes June 21st! Submit here: sessionize.com/sql-saturday...

Don't miss Brent Ozar Pre-Con 9/26 - www.eventbrite.com/e/sql-saturd...
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June 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
28twelve.consulting
Please #PowerBI, could you stop changing the height or width of an object by one pixel if I copy it :-/
January 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
28twelve.consulting
As seen on a bag of delicious coffee beans: "Life happens, coffee helps"
December 5, 2024 at 2:32 PM
28twelve.consulting
📝Blog Post: Rate my dashboard
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Martin's Blog - Rate my dashboard
A little while ago I was asked to rate a Power BI dashboard. The person who asked, participated in a Power BI challenge (I’ll call it that because that’s the way they are being marketed…
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August 21, 2024 at 4:42 PM
28twelve.consulting
📝 New Blog Post

Building a framework for orchestration in Azure Data Factory: Recap

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Martin's Blog - Building a framework for orchestration in Azure Data Factory: Recap
Frameworks are extremely useful when they are thoughtfully designed and implemented. I have seen both sides of the coin, but what I probably see the most of is a lack of any sort of framework. What…
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May 28, 2024 at 4:00 PM
28twelve.consulting
📝New Blog Post

Building a framework for orchestration in Azure Data Factory: Controllers

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Martin's Blog - Building a framework for orchestration in Azure Data Factory: Controllers
Controllers are pipelines that initiate the execution of a single process or task in a specific order and with constraints. Whereas everything else in this framework is pretty automated, this part …
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May 21, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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📝 New Blog Post

Building a framework for orchestration in Azure Data Factory: Orchestrators

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Martin's Blog - Building a framework for orchestration in Azure Data Factory: Orchestrators
The orchestration layer of the framework is where all the magic happens. It facilitates the execution of processes and/or tasks (as defined in the metadata), and needs to do it both seamlessly and …
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May 14, 2024 at 2:02 PM
28twelve.consulting
📝 New Blog Post

Building a framework for orchestration in Azure Data Factory: Workers

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Martin's Blog - Building a framework for orchestration in Azure Data Factory: Workers
We’re finally ready to dive into the Data Factory components that form part of the framework, and we’re going to work our way from the bottom up. To paraphrase the previous blog post, w…
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May 7, 2024 at 2:05 PM
28twelve.consulting
📝 New Blog Post

Building a framework for orchestration in Azure Data Factory: Framework components

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Martin's Blog - Building a framework for orchestration in Azure Data Factory: Framework components
Before we dive into the details of the Data Factory pipelines, it is worth explaining the conceptual structure of my framework and its components. How it all fits together is important, and after r…
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April 23, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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📝 New Blog Post

Building a framework for orchestration in Azure Data Factory: Metadata

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Martin's Blog - Building a framework for orchestration in Azure Data Factory: Metadata
The metadata that drives the execution within a framework is probably the most critical part. Going back to our analogy of building a house, the metadata would be the foundation. It is here where y…
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April 16, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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📝New Blog Post

Building a framework for orchestration in Azure Data Factory: Orchestration

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April 9, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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New Blog Post 📝

Building a framework for orchestration in Azure Data Factory: A series

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April 2, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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dhma.ch
Here ya go:
dhma.ch Daniel Hutmacher @dhma.ch · Apr 1
Recently, my home ISP has started changing my public IP address. This causes me some headache because I have a couple of Azure Network Security Group rules that specifically allow my home IP access to all of my Azure resources. When my home IP changes, those rules have to be updated accordingly.
Dynamically updating Azure Network Security Groups
Recently, my home ISP has started changing my public IP address. This causes me some headache because I have a couple of Azure Network Security Group rules (think of them as firewall rules) that speci...
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April 1, 2024 at 6:03 PM
28twelve.consulting
I'm very excited for Data Saturday Phoenix this weekend, where I'll be speaking about frameworks in Azure Data Factory.

Oh, and there will be lots of Minion pictures 👇 #DataSaturday

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March 19, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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Blog Post: Copy a report page from one Power BI Desktop file to another martinschoombee.com/2024/02/06/c...
Martin's Blog - Copy a report page from one Power BI Desktop file to another
The proprietary storage format of Power BI Desktop files have made it difficult to implement source control fully in the past, but there is some light at the end of the tunnel with Power BI project…
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February 7, 2024 at 2:35 PM