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In this post we will talk through how to expand on a data team's creative skillset, without access to specialist photo editing software such as Photoshop or Illustrator.

I recently passed the PL-300 - Power BI Data Analyst exam. Here are some tips to prepare for it that I found useful!

Many data projects fail to deliver the impact they should for a simple reason – they focus on the data. This series of posts explains a different way of thinking that will set up your data & analytics projects for success. Using an iterative, action-oriented, insight discovery process, it demonstrates tools and techniques that will help you to identify, define and prioritize requirements in your own projects so that they deliver maximum value. It also explores the synergy with modern cloud analytics platforms like Azure Synapse, explaining how the process and the architecture actively support each other for fast, impactful delivery.

We describe how to create a high level view of your digital assets, where everything is measured equally and actionable insights can be generated that allow you to optimise your budget and build a roadmap focused on business value.

Optimise Power BI report performance with analyzer tools. Discover essential techniques for efficient report development in this blog post.

C# has gradually been adding support for discards. This article explores how this evolution has led to some surprises.

Discover a unique, action-oriented approach to data projects for maximum impact. Learn how to synergize with platforms like Azure Synapse for fast delivery.

The first in a series of posts talking about how and why we migrated an application from Azure Functions to Azure Container Apps

Automate Excel tasks with Office Scripts & Power Automate. Get an overview and explore a practical example in this post.

Explore Microsoft Dependency Injection container's 3 lifetimes: transient, singleton, scoped. Learn their behaviors & importance in app dependencies.

Fix broken dev loop with containerized apps on Azure CLI for Windows. Learn a workaround to avoid using outdated Azure CLI versions.

In this blog we demonstrate how the Gherkin specification can be adapted to enable BDD to be applied to data engineering use cases.

Learn how to grant non-admin users access to Spark synchronized objects with SQL Serverless in Synapse Analytics using the Shared Metadata Model.

If you're interested in the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) and how it can simplify migrating existing workloads to use cloud platform services, then this series might be for you. In this post, we continue modifying the excellent Dapr Traffic Control sample application by swapping the MQTT-based messaging with Azure Storage Queues. We will also look at how you can use the Dapr programming model as an alternative to cloud-provider SDKs.

Explore Azure Synapse's 'Shared Metadata Model' feature. Learn how it syncs Spark tables with SQL Serverless, its benefits, and tradeoffs.

This blog post explores how the CALCULATE function in DAX performs context transition.

The stack and heap are central components of memory management in C# programs. This post aims to introduce the topic, with a number of worked examples.

Explore the impact of Excel's numeric precision rules on identifiers and learn about infamous data loss incidents caused by misuse in this post.

This blog post explores one of the most powerful functions in DAX - CALCULATE.

This blog post explores two common functions in DAX - RELATED and RELATEDTABLE.

Discover how to extract insights from spreadsheets and CSV files using Pandas and Power BI in this blog post.

We're constantly using computer networks and the internet, especially as developers. The Web is the most important application on the Internet; this is the second of two posts aiming to explain the basics of the Web.

In this post, we will be showing how to implement dependency injection in an ASP.NET Core application.

Explore filtering fact tables with Star Schemas and learn a clean method for filtering dimension tables by another dimension.

Explore the complexities of combining async methods with multicast delegates in C# with Liam.