Neo4j and SSIS are awkward bedfellows – SSIS is Microsoft and has connectors to a plethora of database and technologies using ODBC, Web etc, and Neo4j is written in Java which provides a JDBC connection. SSIS however, does not work with JDBC. #badtimes Some of the clients I’ve worked with like using SSIS – (some…
After I’d written it – I realised my last post was perhaps not the most useful for those who really don’t care about the how but want to know what to do to use it. So this will follow the same deal as with the last post (over a year and a half ago!! WOW!).…
TL;DR; Repo is at: https://github.com/cskardon/Neo4jDataConnectorForPowerBiRelease at: https://github.com/cskardon/Neo4jDataConnectorForPowerBi/releases Looky! Pie Charts! This glorious picture represents the very pinnacle of my PowerBI experience, beforehand I was pulling the data into Excel and charting myself – no longer! Jokes aside, the big news here is that I’ve dramatically improved upon my previous post where I showed how you could…
Neo4j.Version 3.3.4 APOC Version 3.3.0.2 If you haven’t already, please have a look at the intro post to this series, it’ll cover stuff which I’m not going to go into on this. OK, ‘apoc.coll’ has 43 (that’s right – 43) functions and procedures, but I’m only going to cover the ‘sort’ ones for this post – why?…
Recently, I’ve had a couple of people ask me how to use Neo4j with Azure functions, and well – I’d not done it myself, but now I have – let’s get it done! Login to your Azure Portal Create a new Resource, and search for ‘function app’: Select ‘Function App’ from the Market Place: Press…
Neo4j.Version 3.0.0 APOC Version 3.3.0.1 If you haven’t already, please have a look at the intro post to this series, it’ll cover stuff which I’m not going to go into on this. Dates! For some reason people keep on wanting to keep track of dates (and indeed times) in their systems. Neo4j for a…
Well, version wise anyhow! This is a pretty big release and is one I’ve been working on for a while now (sorry!). Version 3.0 of the client finally adds support for Bolt. When Neo4j released version 3.0 of their database, they added a new binary protocol called Bolt designed to be faster and easier on…
Neo4j.Version 3.0.0 APOC Version 3.3.0.1 If you haven’t already, please have a look at the intro post to this series, it’ll cover stuff which I’m not going to go into on this. Back at the beginning of this series (if you can remember that far!) I talked about using apoc.export.csv.* – and I showed that…
Neo4j Version 3.3.0 APOC Version 3.3.0.1 If you haven’t already, please have a look at the intro post to this series, it’ll cover stuff which I’m not going to go into on this. We’re going to start with the Export functions – in particular exporting to CSV, mainly as people have asked about it –…
As all developers in good languages know – arrays and blog series start at 0, not 1 (sorry VB developers) so this is the introductory post to the upcoming series about APOC and it’s procedures etc. What is APOC? APOC stands for Awesome Procedures On Cypher – and is a large collection of community functions…