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Azure Data Factory
6 May 2026 7 min

Azure Data Engineer Certification (DP-203) Guide

Exam DP-203 and the Azure Data Engineer Associate certification were retired on 31 March 2025. This guide explains what that means for people who hold it or were studying for it, what the exam covered, how the Fabric Data Engineer Associate exam DP-700 differs, and how to plan your preparation now.

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Data Engineering
6 May 2026 7 min

Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD) Types Explained

The slowly changing dimension types every data engineer uses: Type 0, 1, 2 and 3 and when each fits, a working example on the real Chinook database where a support-rep reassignment makes Type 1 misattribute revenue while Type 2 keeps it right, how to load Type 2 rows, and the mistakes that corrupt history.

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Power BI
6 May 2026 6 min

Power BI Performance Tuning: Make Reports Faster

A method for making Power BI reports faster: measure first with Performance Analyzer and read its DAX query, visual display and other timings, then shrink the import model, reduce column cardinality on a real retail dataset, write lighter DAX, filter and simplify pages, and check capacity and gateways.

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Data Engineering
6 May 2026 5 min

Snowflake Explained: The Cloud Data Warehouse

Snowflake explained for data engineers: the three layers of storage, compute and cloud services, why separate virtual warehouses isolate workloads, how credits and per-second billing work with a worked example, micro-partitions and pruning, Time Travel and cloning, and habits that keep performance up and costs down.

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Generative AI
6 May 2026 8 min

Chunking Strategies for RAG: Getting Retrieval Right

How you cut documents into chunks decides what a RAG system can find. This guide tests five chunking strategies on the same 40 questions and finds no single winner: splitting rescued facts buried in long sections, lost others that needed their surroundings, and section titles mattered more than size or overlap.

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Interview Questions
6 May 2026 7 min

Tableau Interview Questions and Answers

Tableau interviews return to one topic more than any other: when each calculation happens. This guide answers the core questions on FIXED, INCLUDE and table calculations, with the Tableau formulas and their results reproduced on a year of real online orders: one filter, two answers, 100% or 2.57%.

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