Ode to Data Explorer
To the tune of The Candy Man by Sammy Davis Jr. Who can talk to SQL, sprinkle with Hadoop Cover it with Sharepoint and a miracle or two Data Explorer, oh Data Explorer can Data Explorer can causes it...
View ArticleGetting Started with Power Query for Excel
Power Query v1 launched a few months ago. Power Query is part of the Microsoft Power BI suite. If you’re interested in getting started with Power Query, here are some helpful resources: Help page –...
View ArticleIP Security in IIS Express
If you’re building an Azure website and you want to add IP security, there are quite a few blog posts about how to make that happen. I’m just going to summarize them here for you. In your web.config,...
View ArticleEncrypt Secrets With A Certificate In Azure Websites
Here's the scenario: you have a secret that needs to be used in your website but you know it's insecure to put the password in your code in plain text. One easy solution is to manually enter the secret...
View ArticleAzure Data Explorer Public Preview
There is lots of great stuff flowing out of Microsoft Ignite this week, but my favorite so far is the announcement about the public preview of Azure Data Explorer. We've been using this tool internally...
View ArticleIngesting Your First CSV Into Azure Data Explorer
We've been using the Kusto query language internally for quite a while and over that time, and while I'm not a member of the Data Explorer team, I've helped a number of people get started with the...
View ArticleGetting Started with the Kusto Query Language (KQL)
Azure Data Explorer is in public preview and their documentation is an excellent place to educate yourself on the Kusto Query Language that is used to interact with Azure Data Explorer. There's also a...
View ArticleKusto Code Hygiene and Performance Tips
Now that you've started authoring your first Kusto queries in Azure Data Explorer, there are a few things you can do to make your life a lot easier going forward. In terms of performance, there are...
View ArticleClient App Calling An Azure Function With AAD
I recently needed to create a client app that used an AAD application to authenticate with an Azure Function that was configured with the AAD Easy Auth flow. Documenting it here seemed like it might...
View ArticleAzure Data Explorer Functions and Control Commands
A new employee on our team recently went through the Pluralsight Kusto course and gave it the thumbs up. However, based on the way we use Azure Data Explorer internally, there are a couple major...
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