Powershell to Restore Azure SQL database PITR backup

Today there seems to be a bug on Portal resource Manager API not allowing any SQL databases pitr restores from portal and the only way to do it at this point is using scripts, The below script is an example to restore the database on the same server with Feb 20th 3 PM backup

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Power BI DAX for Start of Year To End of Prior Month Sales

We had a requirement for Power BI Measure Start of the year To End of Prior Month Sales sum for one of the report which was failed for January as the original Measure was just query Previous Month and going to a negative Data Diff value obviously for January Eg:DATEDIFF(1jan2023,31DEC2022). To avoid this we had to introduce a check on the measure if the month is january then we need SUM of Sales of January rather than previous Month. I used the below logic to solve this issue

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Bug In Azure API creating Data Factory Default AutoResolveIntegrationRuntime on Managed Virtual Network

Recently our terraform Infrastructure as code effort to create a datafactory resource with default AutoResolveIntegrationRuntime in Managed Virtual Network failed to create one.

We had managed_virtual_network_enabled flag on terraform and tried to use native azure cli too as a backup but both failed to create the default integration runtime on Managed Virtual Network and created a default public integration runtime. Only work around it was to create a Data Factory using ARM Template. I exported the ARM template and created the below Powershell to create the Data factory. I stored the Template and parameter file on a Fileshare and used it in the powershell to reuse and create a parameter file each time for different DF creation.

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Powershell Azure Devops REST API to create/update a variable group based on json variable input

 I had a requirement to automate creation and updating of Azure devops variable group based on a configuration variable json file proved to me by the application team for CICD process, the below script will look for the variable group if it exists with the project mentioned if not it will create a new variable group, If the variable group exists it will update the variable group with json provided. The idea is to maintain the json file on git for version and see the history of the changes on the variable group variables provided to the pipeline.

The below is the format of the Variable json passed on to the script

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