Author: Alexandre Cloud Silva

  • Fabric Mirroring: Data Retention

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    Alexandre Cloud Silva

    Until recently, Fabric Mirrored Databases data retention (OneLake) was of 7 days (default) and it was not possible to change this property. Fabric May 2025 Feature Summary | Microsoft Fabric Blog | Microsoft Fabric As of today, the default retention period for such artifacts created after June 2025 is of 1 day. And you can…

  • SHIR release notes notification automation

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    Alexandre Cloud Silva

    The goal of this article is to: For Azure Data Factory (and Synapse Analytics) users, keeping up with SHIR (Self-Hosted Integration Runtime) notes might be a cumbersome task. It involves downloading a .doc file, costing a couple of clicks, through the following url: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39717 Having this in mind, I have created an automation to send…

  • Trigger VS Debug

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    Alexandre Cloud Silva

    Azure Data Factory (ADF) offers 2 ways of executing a pipeline: Selecting Debug actually runs the pipeline. For example, if the pipeline contains copy activity, the test run copies data from source to destination. As a result, we recommend that you use test folders in your copy activities and other activities when debugging. After you’ve debugged the…