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Data Protection for SAP Solutions
Data Protection for SAP Solutions
Introduction
Data protection is key criteria for all customers. You need to find an optimal way to protect against data loss or data inconsistencies caused by hardware or software defects, accidentally deletion of data, external and internal data fraud.
Other important criteria are the architecture around high availability and disaster recovery to fulfill the requirements around RPO in a typical HA case (usually RPO=0) or in a disaster recovery case (usually RPO!=0).
How soon is the system required to be back in “normal” operations after an HA or DR situation.
Recovery times can be in a wide range depending on the ways to recover the data. E.g. the times can be short if you could use Snapshots or a clone from a Snapshot or it could take hours to bring back the data to the file system (Streaming backup/recovery) before we even can start the database recovery process.
The main question is “what is your requirement?”
What is nice to have and what is really required in cases of high availability and disaster recovery?
Backup Runtime with different HANA Database Sizes
Database size on file system
Backup throughput: 250MB/s
For very large databases the backup process will take many hours if you are using streaming based backup. With snapshot based backups it could take only a minute, regardless of the size of the database. Remember, a Snapshot, at least with Azure NetApp Files, remains in the same volume where your data is. Therefore, consider offloading (at least) one Snapshot a day using e.g. ANF backup to a ANF backup Vault.
SAP HANA on Azure NetApp Files – Data protection with BlueXP backup and recovery (microsoft.com)
Restore and recovery times of a 4TB HANA database
Database size: 4TB on file system
Restore throughput: 250MB/s
Log backups: 50% of db size per day
Read troughput during db start: 1000MB/s
Throughput during recovery: 250MB/s
Conclusion:
For smaller databases it can be absolutely sufficient to use streaming backups to fulfil your requirements. For larger or very large databases getting to low RTO times with streaming backups can be difficult. Since it can take hours to restore the data to the original location. This could enlarge the RTO significantly. Although, specifically for the high availability case, we would recommend using HSR (HANA System Replication) to reach an acceptable RTO. But even than the failing system may need to be rebuild or recovered which might take many hours. To reduce the time for a complete system rebuild, customers are using Snapshot based backup/restore scenarios to lower the RTO significantly.
Azure Backup (Streaming Backup)
Azure Backup delivers these key benefits:
Offload on-premises backup – Azure Backup offers a simple solution for backing up your on-premises resources to the cloud. Get short and long-term backup without the need to deploy complex on-premises backup solutions.
Back up Azure IaaS VMs – Azure Backup provides independent and isolated backups to guard against accidental destruction of original data. Backups are stored in a Recovery Services vault with built-in management of recovery points. Configuration and scalability are simple, backups are optimized, and you can easily restore as needed.
Scale easily – Azure Backup uses the underlying power and unlimited scale of the Azure cloud to deliver high-availability with no maintenance or monitoring overhead.
Get unlimited data transfer – Azure Backup doesn’t limit the amount of inbound or outbound data you transfer, or charge for the data that’s transferred. Outbound data refers to data transferred from a Recovery Services vault during a restore operation. If you perform an offline initial backup using the Azure Import/Export service to import large amounts of data, there’s a cost associated with inbound data. Learn more.
Keep data secure – Azure Backup provides solutions for securing data in transit and at rest.
Centralized monitoring and management – Azure Backup provides built-in monitoring and alerting capabilities in a Recovery Services vault. These capabilities are available without any additional management infrastructure. You can also increase the scale of your monitoring and reporting by using Azure Monitor.
Get app-consistent backups – An application-consistent backup means a recovery point has all required data to restore the backup copy. Azure Backup provides application-consistent backups, which ensure additional fixes aren’t required to restore the data. Restoring application-consistent data reduces the restoration time, allowing you to quickly return to a running state.
Retain short and long-term data – You can use Recovery Services vaults for short-term and long-term data retention.
Automatic storage management – Hybrid environments often require heterogeneous storage – some on-premises and some in the cloud. With Azure Backup, there’s no cost for using on-premises storage devices. Azure Backup automatically allocates and manages backup storage, and it uses a pay-as-you-use model. So, you only pay for the storage you consume. Learn more about pricing.
Multiple storage options – Azure Backup offers three types of replication to keep your storage/data highly available.
Locally redundant storage (LRS) replicates your data three times (it creates three copies of your data) in a storage scale unit in a datacenter. All copies of the data exist within the same region. LRS is a low-cost option for protecting your data from local hardware failures.
Geo-redundant storage (GRS) is the default and recommended replication option. GRS replicates your data to a secondary region (hundreds of miles away from the primary location of the source data). GRS costs more than LRS, but GRS provides a higher level of durability for your data, even if there’s a regional outage.
Zone-redundant storage (ZRS) replicates your data in availability zones, guaranteeing data residency and resiliency in the same region. ZRS has no downtime. So your critical workloads that require data residency, and must have no downtime, can be backed up in ZRS.
What is Azure Backup? – Azure Backup | Microsoft Learn
SAP HANA Backup support matrix – Azure Backup | Microsoft Learn
ANF how does a SnapShot work
How Azure NetApp Files snapshots work | Microsoft Learn
What volume snapshots are
An Azure NetApp Files snapshot is a point-in-time file system (volume) image. It is ideal to serve as an online backup. You can use a snapshot to create a new volume (clone), restore a file, or revert a volume. In specific application data stored on Azure NetApp Files volumes, extra steps might be required to ensure application consistency.
Low-overhead snapshots are made possible by the unique features of the underlying volume virtualization technology that is part of Azure NetApp Files. Like a database, this layer uses pointers to the actual data blocks on disk. But, unlike a database, it doesn’t rewrite existing blocks; it writes updated data to new blocks and changes the pointers, thus maintaining the new and the old data. An Azure NetApp Files snapshot simply manipulates block pointers, creating a “frozen”, read-only view of a volume that lets applications access older versions of files and directory hierarchies without special programming. Actual data blocks aren’t copied. As such, snapshots are efficient in the time needed to create them; they are near-instantaneous, regardless of volume size. Snapshots are also efficient in storage space; only delta blocks between snapshots and the active volume are kept.
Files consist of metadata and data blocks written to a volume. In this illustration, there are three files, each consisting of three blocks: file 1, file 2, and file 3.
A snapshot Snapshot1 is taken, which copies the metadata and only the pointers to the blocks that represent the files:
Files on the volume continue to change, and new files are added. Modified data blocks are written as new data blocks on the volume. The blocks that were previously captured in Snapshot1 remain unchanged:
A new snapshot Snapshot2 is taken to capture the changes and additions:
ANF Backup (SnapShot – SnapVault based)
Azure NetApp Files backup expands the data protection capabilities of Azure NetApp Files by providing fully managed backup solution for long-term recovery, archive, and compliance. Backups created by the service are stored in Azure storage, independent of volume snapshots that are available for near-term recovery or cloning. Backups taken by the service can be restored to new Azure NetApp Files volumes within the same Azure region. Azure NetApp Files backup supports both policy-based (scheduled) backups and manual (on-demand) backups. For additional information, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-netapp-files/snapshots-introduction
To start with please read: Understand Azure NetApp Files backup | Microsoft Learn
ANF Resource limits: Resource limits for Azure NetApp Files | Microsoft Learn
Design
The four big benefits of ANF backup are:
Inline compression when taking a backup.
De-Duplication – this will reduce the amount of storage needed in the Blob space. Be aware that using Transparent Data Encryption functionality as offered by the different DBMS are prohibiting efficiency gains by De-Duplication
Block level Delta copy of the blocks – this will the time and the space for each backup
The database server is not impacted when taking the backup. All traffic will go directly from the storage to the blob space using the Microsoft backbone and NOT the client network. The backup will also NOT impact the storage volume quota. The database server will have the full bandwidth available for normal operation.
How this is all working
We are going to split the backup features in two parts. The data volume will be snapshotted with azacsnap. Creating this snapshot, it is important that the data volume is in a consistent state before the snapshot is triggered. Creating the application consistency is managed with azacsnap in the case of e.g. SAP HANA Oracle (with Oracle Linux), and Db2 (Linux only).
The SAP HANA log backup area is a “offline” volume and can be backed up anytime without talking to the database. We also need a much higher backup frequency to reduce the RPO as for the data volume. The database can be “rolled forward” with any data snapshot if you have all the logs created after this data volume snapshot. Therefore, the frequency of how often we backup the log backup folder is very important to reduce the RPO. For the log backup volume we do not need a snapshot at all because, as I mentioned, all the files there are offline files.
This displays the “one AV Zone scenario”. It will also be possible to use ANF backup in a peered region (DR) but then the restore process will be different (later in this document)
ANF Backup using an DR Region
It is also an option to leverage ANF backup from a DR Azure region. In this scenario the backups will be created from the ANF DR volumes. In our example, we are using both. CRR (Cross Region Replication) in a region ANF can replicate to and ANF backup to store the backups for many days, weeks or even months.
For a recovery you will primarily use the snapshots in the production ANF volume. If you have lost the primary zone or ANF you might have an HA system before you even recover the DB. If you don’t have an HA system, you still have a copy of the data in your DR region. In the DR region, you simply could activate the volumes or create a clone out of the volumes. Both are very fast methods to get your data back. You would need to recover the database using the clone or the DR volume. In most cases you will lose some data because in the DR region usually is a gap of available log backups.
ANF Volume Lock
One other data protection method is to lock the ANF volume from deletion.
When you create a lock you will protect the ANF volume from accidently deletion.
If you or someone else tries to delete the ANF volume, or the resource group the ANF volume belongs to, Azure will return an error.
Result in:
However, there is a limitation to consider. If you set a lock on an ANF volume that vlocks deletion of the volume, you also can’t delete any snapshots created of this volume. This presents a limitation when you work with consistent backups using AzAcSnap. AzAcSnap. As those are not going to be able to delete any snapshots of a volume where the lock is configured. The consequence is that the retention management of azacsnap or BlueXP is not able to delete the snapshots that are out of the retention period anymore.
But for a time where you start with your SAP deployment in Azure this might is a workable way to protect your volumes for accidently deletion.
Repair system
There are many reasons why you might find yourself in a situation to repair a HANA database to s specific point in time. the most common are:
Accidental deletion of data within a table or deletion of a complete table during administration or operations causing a logical inconsistency in the database.
Issues in hardware of software stack causing corruption of page/block content in the database.
In both of these it might take hours, days or even weeks until the impacted data is accessed the next time. The more time passes between the introduction of such an inconsistency and the repair, the more difficult is the root cause analysis and correction. Especially in cases of logical inconsistencies, an HA system will not help since the logical inconsistency cause by a ‘delete command’ got “transferred” to the database of the HA system through HANA System Replication as well.
The most common method of solving these logical inconsistency problems is to “quickly” build an, so called, repair system to extract deleted and now “missing” data.
To detect physical inconsistencies, executing regular consistency checks are highly recommended to detect problems as early as possible.
For SAP HANA, the following main consistency checks exist:
CHECK_CATALOG
Metadata
Procedure to check SAP HANA metadata for consistency
CHECK_TABLE_CONSISTENCY
Column store
Row store
Procedure to check tables in column store and row store for consistency
Backup
Persistence
During (non-snapshot) backups the physical page structure (e.g. checksum) is checked
hdbpersdiag
Persistence
Starting with SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 05 the hdbpersdiag tool is officially supported to check the consistency of the persistence level. see Persistence Consistency Check for more information.
2116157 – FAQ: SAP HANA Consistency Checks and Corruptions – SAP for Me
SAP Note 1977584 provides details about these consistency check tools. See also for related information in the SAP HANA Administration Guide.
To create an “repair System” we can select an older snapshot, which was created with e.g. azacsnap, and recover the database where we assume the deleted table was still available. Then export the table and import the table into the original PRD database. Of course,
we recommend that SAP support personnel guides you through this recovery process and potential additional repairs in the database.
The process of creating a ‘repair system’ can look as the following graphic:
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You are likely aware of the ongoing security work at Microsoft that is impacting M365 tenants and therefore courses that use those tenants in their labs. This information was provided on the March TSP Community Call. I understand this is a frustrating experience that may be impacting your ability to deliver classes. A resolution to this is top priority at Microsoft.
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I’ve attached an updated version of the FAQ that contains additional information on the current situation. My understanding is that significant progress is being made and we may soon have a resolution. I will keep you updated in this forum of any new developments.
Thank you for your patience and partnership.
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Armchair Architects: How to choose a LLM partner for your AI project
Introduction
Our host, David Blank-Edelman and our armchair architects Uli Homann and Eric Charran will be discussing how to choose a Large Language Model (LLM) partner. Architects and developers are often at a crossroads: should they use existing AI models or venture into building their own? This decision is far from trivial, as it comes with a myriad of considerations, from return on investment to the rapid pace of AI commoditization.
What are the processes and criteria you should consider when choosing a LLM or a foundational model (FM) for your AI project, and are the trade-offs between building your own model or using a hosted service? What are some of the challenges of trusting and validating the outputs of LLMs and FMs? When choosing an LLM partner, what things should you think about?
The AI Model Spectrum
There are many models available in the large language model (LLM) space. It began with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which quickly expanded to offerings from other providers like Google, and the open-source community. With potentially hundreds of thousands of models to choose from, the architects ponder over the criteria for selecting the right model. They emphasize the importance of evaluating the partner—be it a commercial entity or an open-source project—and ensuring the model aligns with the organization’s needs and responsible AI criteria.
They point out that the open-source models often come with a strong support system, including extensive documentation and active forums for discussion and troubleshooting.
Building vs. Using Pre-Built Models
One of the topics discussed was a build vs. buy scenario. The rapid commoditization of AI capabilities poses a unique challenge: if you build your own model, how do you keep up with the continuous innovation? Conversely, if you choose an existing model, how do you ensure it fits your specific requirements and ethical standards? There is an inclination to build custom models in industries like financial services, where proprietary data is paramount, and the trust required when working with large commercial models.
Trust and Transparency in AI
AI models are very complex and even their creators may not fully understand their inner workings. Users must rely on the model’s track record and the quality of its outputs. The architects argue that while evaluating AI models may seem similar to assessing any other technology, the opaque nature of these models adds an additional layer of complexity.
There is also the concept of responsible AI which was discussed in a previous blog, stressing the importance of developing AI in a way that is ethical and fair. The experts discuss the criteria for responsible AI, including transparency, accountability, and the mitigation of bias. They provide examples of how these criteria have been implemented in real-world scenarios, illustrating the positive impact of responsible AI practices.
Conclusion
There are many considerations when selecting an LLM or FM. Assess your specific needs, resources, and goals when deciding on your AI strategy and stay informed about the latest developments in AI technology. When selecting one, keep in mind the importance of trust, transparency, and have a clear understanding of the model’s capabilities and limitations.
Watch the episode below or watch more episodes in the Armchair Architects Series.
Resources
How to deploy large language models with Azure AI Studio.
Explore the model catalog in Azure AI Studio
Training: Create a large language model deployment
Get Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals
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Microsoft Fabric: Integration with ADO Repos and Deployment Pipelines – A Power BI Case Study.
Introduction
In the dynamic landscape of software development, collaboration stands as a cornerstone for success. Harnessing the power of cutting-edge tools and methodologies, teams strive to streamline their processes, elevate their efficiency, and deliver unparalleled results. In this pursuit, the convergence of GIT, Azure DevOps, and Microsoft Fabric Deployment Strategies emerges as a beacon of innovation, revolutionizing the way organizations approach collaborative development and deployment.
Fabric is an end-to-end, human-centered analytics product that unifies an organization’s data and analytics in one place.
It combines the best features of Microsoft Power BI, Azure Synapse, and Azure Data Factory into a single unified software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform.
This article will expose two features of Fabric that make it very powerful for undertaking business intelligence solutions:
Collaborative development and Agile application publishing in the Azure cloud.
Considering Fabric’s extensive array of product items already compatible with source control and deployment pipelines, our focus lies on a flagship product empowered by Fabric: Microsoft Power BI. We firmly believe that short-term development efforts will enable most, if not all, Fabric items to benefit from these features.
In this post we delve into the integration of Fabric with Azure DevOps Repos and the possibilities of Fabric Deployment Pipelines, aimed at enhancing both collaborative development and agile release cycles of Power BI solutions. Our goal is to elucidate the practical application of these technologies through examples, emphasizing their advantages within the Fabric ecosystem, and outline key best practices for utilizing Fabric-GIT and Fabric Deployment Pipelines effectively.
Collaborative development and deployment using Microsoft Fabric.
Suppose there are two developers who must collaborate to obtain a business intelligence application where trend analysis and key performance indicators about Medicines distributed to Hospitals are displayed.
Developers want to make source control [1] of the development, so they need to share a repository. They need to deploy the solution from a DEV Stage to a TEST Stage to test the solution, and after successful testing, deploy the solution to a PRODUCTION Stage.
What is the scenario when these developers use Microsoft Fabric?
In Fabric, development and deployment tasks are done using workspaces.
Fabric Workspaces [2] are places to collaborate with colleagues to create collections of items such as lakehouses, warehouses, and reports. A workspace is like a container of the work results of the tools provided by Fabric.
We will describe the architecture of this scenario by means of Figure 1 and provide a step-by-step guide to make the Fabric and GIT integration via an Azure DevOps Repo, and to build the desired deployment pipeline.
Figure 1. Development and Deployment Scenario using Microsoft Fabric and an Azure DevOps Repo.
These are the steps to make the Fabric and GIT integration:
Create a new project and a GIT Repo for this project in Azure DevOps Services. Create one or multiple workspaces within Fabric and grant access to as many developers as needed. In this case, create two workspaces named ‘Workspace Dev 1’ and ‘Workspace Dev 2’. Additionally, create a third workspace, ‘Workspace Main’, intended to store the combined contents of both developers. Create as many branches in the ADO GIT Repo as workspaces in Fabric. Or create folders within a branch to continue maintaining files when merging to the same branch. In Figure 1, we have created the branches Dev 1, Dev 2 and Main. Integrate each workspace with GIT pointing to the Organization, the Project, the Branch and Folder inside the branch.
Figures 2 shows the UI to make that Fabric-GIT integration [3]. You will see how to integrate Workspace Dev 1 with GIT.
Similarly, the workspaces Dev 2 and Main can be integrated and synchronized.
Figure 2. Integrating Workspace Dev 1 with GIT.
Each developer can commit changes to their items from his workspace in Fabric. This is done by using the Source Control option of the workspace. See Figures 3 and 4.
Figure 3. Workspace Dev 1 syncing with the GIT branch of ADO Repo.
Figure 4. Workspace with its content synced.
5. Developers must create pull requests [4] in Azure DevOps to merge the commits to the main branch. See Figure 5.
6. Don’t delete any branch after merge, to keep developers maintain items independently.
Figure 5. Creating a pull request in Azure DevOps.
Figure 6. Completing the merging process.
Many developers inquire about collaborating on making changes to the same report.
If multiple developers modify the same report, merge conflicts can arise when attempting to combine their changes into the same branch. [5]
What should be done to combine both contents into a single Power BI report?
Clone the branch locally and use VS Code to see the differences between two versions of the same file. Merge conflicts can be resolved more easily by installing the Pull Request Merge Conflict Microsoft extension. The extension adds special lines (commenting the conflicts) into the report.json file. Navigate to Azure DevOps > Repos > Files and delete all lines commenting merge conflicts. Commit those changes to the report.json file. Then, make the merge anyway. When trying to sync on Fabric, an error message will be displayed. When the content is synced, they may encounter a scenario where the report reflects the changes from one developer but not from the other. To ensure that all developers can view all changes, the following process must be repeated: each developer creates a pull request, the changes are merged, and then adjustments are made in the JSON file. Once the necessary modifications are made, the changes are committed to the JSON file, and synchronization in Fabric can be performed.
Figure 7. Edition of a report.json file in Azure DevOps.
To prevent merging conflicts, each developer should work on separate reports. Through deployment pipelines, the changes made by all developers can be deployed to test and production environments. A single dashboard can be created by pinning visuals from multiple reports.
Up to this point, we have shown how to obtain updated content in the Main Branch, based on the changes that developers have made in their respective workspaces.
“Main branch” is ready to be deployed now. The tools for the deployment in Fabric are the deployment pipelines.
Deployment Pipelines in Fabric.
Deployment Pipelines are a Fabric feature that can work independently of the integration of workspaces with GIT. [6]
The goal of deployment pipelines is to efficiently transfer content from one workspace to another in an agile manner.
The process followed by Fabric deployment pipelines is completely codeless.
Let’s look at it.
You can create a deployment pipeline outside of all workspaces, or within one of the workspaces.
Figure 8. Creating a New Deployment pipeline out of workspaces.
The first thing is to define a meaningful name for the purpose of the pipeline.
By default, Fabric proposes to use three stages, called DEVELOPMENT, TEST and PRODUCTION.
The stages are essentially Fabric workspaces that you can either associate with existing ones or create when deploying content from the space on the left to the one on the right.
You can do inverted deploys, that is, move content from the stage on the right to the stage on the left, to undo changes.
Never has there been such agility in publishing applications in the cloud.
Currently, a Fabric pipeline can be scheduled to run at a specified time. However, this differs from the ease of creating events to automate the execution of ADO Pipelines, it is just that ADO Pipelines typically require more coding.
It is convenient to create the deployment pipeline in the space where most changes have already been synchronized, for example, in our case it would be the “Workspace Main”, but it’s possible to create a pipeline for deploying the content from any of the workspaces.
Figure 9 illustrates the creation of a deployment pipeline in Workspace Main, utilizing this workspace as the initial stage (the DEVELOPMENT Stage). See Figure 1 to see the pipeline.
However, you have the flexibility to change the assigned workspace to any stage as needed. Figure 10 shows an assignment process.
Figure 9. Creation of a deployment pipeline inside a Fabric’s workspace.
Figure 10. Assign a workspace to a stage.
TEST and PRODUCTION workspaces can either be selected from previously created workspaces or generated by Fabric when deploying content. They are assigned names based on the chosen development stage workspace, followed by either [Test] or [Production].
It’s possible to compare content [7] between stages. Figure 11 says that Workspace Dev 1 contains two less items than the workspace assigned to TEST. This is a symptom that there are missing deploys to do.
Figure 11. Compare content between stages.
You need to refresh data from PBI services to see the complete report in the target workspace to be reviewed, because Fabric only moves metadata.
Another amazing feature is the possibility to publish an app from any of the workspaces in the pipeline. You can update the content of your Power BI apps using a deployment pipeline, giving you more control and flexibility when it comes to your app’s lifecycle. Create an app for each deployment pipeline stage, so that you can test each update from an end user’s point of view. Use the publish or view button in the workspace card to publish or view the app in a specific pipeline stage. See Figure 12.
This opens the doors to greater participation of individuals in reviewing and exchanging criteria on specific aspects they wish to submit for review, without the need to create a complex solution to be reviewed later.
Figure 12. Publish the app from any workspace.
Summary of Good Practices.
Collaborative development and agile deployment are two key aspects for the software industry. Microsoft Fabric delivers faster, lower-code scenarios than ever before for business intelligence solutions.
Microsoft Fabric powers the use of Azure DevOps Repos and has realized a content-based application deployment strategy, allowing engineers to focus on everything that matters to the business.
To take full advantage of these benefits, we offer this best practice guide:
Create as many branches in ADO Repo as there are developers to collaborate. The Main branch should preferably be handled by whoever oversees development direction. Developers should preferably deal with aspects of the solution that are relatively independent, to avoid merging conflicts over the same file. Create as many workspaces in Fabric as developers participate, plus the workspace where all the content will be joined. Keep the contents of each workspace synced with the corresponding Repo branch. Utilize the workspace that consolidates content as the initial stage in the Fabric pipeline. This approach reduces the number of workspaces required in the solution. Now that you have great ease and require minimal code for continuous integration, it’s crucial to publish your app frequently to the cloud to gather feedback quickly. Even if it doesn’t include all agreed-upon features, this approach ensures greater end-user satisfaction and commitment to the team.
Resources:
[1]
Microsoft, “Seamless Source Control Management ” https://blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-git-integration-in-microsoft-fabric-for-seamless-source-control-management.
[2]
M. Corporation, “Getting Started with Workspaces” https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/get-started/workspaces.
[3]
M. Corporation, “Overview of Fabric Git Integration” Overview of Fabric Git integration – Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn
[4]
Microsoft, “Deploy Pull Requests” https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/release/deploy-pull-request-builds?view=azure-devops.
[5]
M. Adnan, “How to solve Fabric and Power BI Azure DevOps GIT Merge Conflict”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed1NwUOIoHs.
[6]
Microsoft, “Getting Started with Deployment Pipelines.” https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/cicd/deployment-pipelines/get-started-with-deployment-pipelines.
[7]
Microsoft, “Understand the deployment process”. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/fabric/cicd/deployment-pipelines/understand-the-deployment-process.
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Access Releases 11 Issue Fixes in Version 2403 (Released March 27th, 2024)
In this blog post, we highlight some of the fixed issues that our Access engineers released in the current monthly channel.
If you see a bug that impacts you, and if you are on the current monthly channel Version 2403, you should have these fixes. Make sure you are on Access Build # 16.0.17425.20138 or greater.
Bug Name
Issue Fixed
Error “Primary key already exists.” when refreshing a link to a SQL Server table.
This error could be generated when using the Refresh Link menu item for a linked table and would also produce Error 3283 when using the TableDef.RefreshLink method in VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) code. This error was also fixed in Version 2402.
Data in the extended range of supported characters is not displayed correctly when imported from an Outlook folder.
Some characters would display as ‘?’ rather than the correct character in the import/link wizard.
Options in the Paste Special dialog are not displayed correctly in some languages when pasting a hyperlink.
Options should now display in the correct language.
When pasting from a Hyperlink field to a Rich Text field, data in the extended range of supported characters may not display correctly.
Some characters would display as ‘?’ rather than the correct character in the Rich Text field.
When specifying the description of a database template, data in the extended range of supported characters may not display correctly when using the template to create a new database.
Some characters would display as ‘?’ rather than the correct character in the new database dialog when using the template.
Cannot create a new database from a template if a table name contains an ampersand (&).
If a database template were created from a database that contained a table with an ampersand (&) in the name then trying to create a new database using the template would generate an error, “Template could not be instantiated.” Instead, you will now get an error when trying to save the template that the table name that contains an ampersand is not supported.
Error when trying to import/link text or Excel files.
Access was always attempting to open text/Excel files exclusively (denying any other access) when importing/linking to the file. This meant that if another application had opened the file for shared access, then the import/link operation would fail. Access will now open the file in a shared mode to allow the operation to succeed.
Filename for exported file is not correct when it uses the extended range of supported characters
Some characters were replaced with an underscore (_) in the filename, rather than using the character specified by the user.
No error displayed when there is a failure trying to switch tabs in a Navigation Form.
When switching tabs in a navigation form, a new form may be loaded. If an error occurs when Access attempts to load the new form, then an error message indicating the cause of failure will now be displayed. Previously the form failed to load, but no notification was given.
Text for the ribbon button to set the alternate row color for a datasheet reads “Alternative Row Colour” in British English.
The text now reads “Alternate Row Colour.”
The term Report is incorrectly localized in some versions of Access.
Some terms need to remain in English for expressions to function correctly, so the localization caused the expression builder to fail to build valid expressions.
Please continue to let us know if this is helpful and share any feedback you have.
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