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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…

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…

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 …

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…