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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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Azure Data Factory
6 May 2026 9 min

Tumbling Window Triggers: Backfills and Dependencies

A tumbling window trigger runs a pipeline once for each fixed, contiguous slice of time, and remembers which slices it has done. This guide explains the window model, a worked backfill of 31 daily windows, concurrency, delay and retry, dependencies between triggers, and passing window boundaries to a pipeline.

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Power BI
6 May 2026 6 min

Star Schema vs Snowflake Schema in Power BI

Star versus snowflake schemas for Power BI models: what a snowflake dimension is, why Microsoft generally favours a single flattened table, a real five-table product dimension flattened into one with every key kept, what flattening quietly drops, and the situations where keeping separate tables makes sense.

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Data Engineering
6 May 2026 6 min

Building a Streaming Pipeline with Kafka and Spark

A streaming pipeline built and run end to end: 77,033 real taxi events on a Kafka topic, read by Spark Structured Streaming, parsed from JSON, aggregated into hourly event-time windows with a watermark and written to a sink, with the real output showing why the final window is not emitted, plus what production adds.

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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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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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