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The world is moving rapidly to cloud platforms like Microsoft’s Power Platform that allows organizations to easily build and deploy applications.

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Power Apps  ·  Power Platform
Timeline Control – Sort Order

The Timeline Control is a highly customizable control for displaying activities relating to a record on a model-driven app form. You can configure which types of activities you want to be visible on the timeline and display activities from related...

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Azure  ·  Dataverse  ·  Power Platform  ·  SQL
Synapse Link for Dataverse – Metadata

I previously wrote a couple of blog posts (post1 and post2) suggesting two different ways to access your Dataverse metadata in Synapse. Both of these techniques are now redundant as Microsoft announced in May 2022 that the Dataverse metadata is...

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Dataverse  ·  Power Platform
Power Fx Formula Columns in Dataverse

The preview of Power Fx formula columns in Dataverse has just been announced. Up until now, I ignored formula columns as they were only available in Dataverse for Teams. So I wanted to check out a little bugbear of mine...

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Azure  ·  Dataverse  ·  Power Platform  ·  SQL
Synapse Link for Dataverse – Metadata

I previously wrote a couple of blog posts (post1 and post2) suggesting two different ways to access your Dataverse metadata in Synapse. Both of these techniques are now redundant as Microsoft announced in May 2022 that the Dataverse metadata is...

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extract table from pdf and write as csv file using Power Automate Desktop
Power Automate  ·  Power Platform
Extract Tables from a PDF using Power Automate Desktop

I previously did a post that demonstrated how you can use Power Automate Desktop to extract text from a PDF. At the time you were not able to extract tables from a PDF. In Feb 2022 Microsoft announced that they...

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Power Apps  ·  Power Platform
Timeline Control – Sort Order

The Timeline Control is a highly customizable control for displaying activities relating to a record on a model-driven app form. You can configure which types of activities you want to be visible on the timeline and display activities from related...

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Power Platform  ·  SQL
Synapse – SQL User

The most secure method for protecting your data in Synapse is through the use of Azure AD. To query data stored in the data lake through a Synapse Serverless endpoint, the AD account must possess the necessary permissions for both...

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Dataverse  ·  Power Platform  ·  SQL
Synapse – SQL Admin

It looks like the rights of the SQL Admin user in the database created by Synapse Link for Database have recently been changed. Prior to 2023, the SQL Admin user account has able to query all the external tables created...

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