How to use concurrency in Azure Synapse pipelines?

How to prevent concurrent pipeline execution?Concurrency This week I had a discussion with a colleague about how we can now make sure that a Pipeline does not start when it's already started. He then indicated, have you ever thought of the concurrency option?  I've...

Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022

Goodbye 2021Recap First of all, I would like to wish everyone a very beautiful and healthy 2022. We are now 3 days on the road into the new year and it is always good to look back at what happened last year. It's certainly been an eventful year, topped off with my MVP...

Enable Pattern Rules in Azure Purview

How can I enable Pattern Rules?​Pattern Rules Last night I was preparing for a demo with Azure Purview. As always, I walk through all the activity hubs to see if there are any new options. This time I noticed that the Pattern Rules option was greyed out. Resource Set...

Restore a accidentally deleted Azure SQL Database

Help I deleted my Logical Server​OOPS Have you ever experienced that you accidentally deleted your Logical Server in Azure?  Because, for example, you made your Pipeline wrong. Surely. And of course you didn't have a backup in your storage either.Well I must confess...

Proud to be an ADF Hackathon winner!

Azure Data Factory HackathonAround the clock During the event 'Around the clock Azure SQL and Azure Data Factory' event on Feb 3, 2021, they kicked-off the Azure Data Factory (ADF) Hackathon. Recording of this event can be found here.Winner I submitted a ADF Pipeline...

BLOGS

After a good talk with Reza Rad from RADACAD during SQL Saturday Holland, I decided to start my first blog

ARTICLES

Knowledge sharing is very important, it gives me a lot of energy. But it also gives others energies to pick up new activities.

Migrate Azure Storage to Azure Data Lake Gen2

Migrate Azure Storage to Storage Account with Azure Data Lake Gen2 capabilities Does it sometimes happen that you come across a Storage Account where the Hierarchical namespace is not enabled or that you still have a Storage Account V1? In the tutorial below I...

Azure Synapse Analyics costs analyis for Integration Runtime

AutoResolveIntegrationRuntime! The last few days I've been following some discussions on Twitter on using a separate Integration Runtime in Azure Synapse Analytics running in the selected region instead of auto-resolve. The AutoResolveIntegrationRuntime is...

Azure Synapse Analytics overwrite live mode

Stale publish branch In Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Data Factory is an new option available "Overwrite Live Mode", which can be found in the Management Hub-Git Configuration. With this new option your directly overwrite your Azure Synapse Live mode code with the...

Azure Purview Pricing example

Azure Purview pricing? Note: Billing for Azure Purview will commence November 1, 2021. Updated October 31st, 2021 Pricing for Elastic Data Map and Scanning for Other Sources are changed and updated in the blog below. Since my last post on Azure Purview announcements...

Azure Purview announcements and new functionalities

This week the Azure Purview Product team added some new functionalities, new connectors(these connectors where added during my holiday), Azure Synapse Data Lineage, a better Power BI integration and the introduction of Elastics Data Map. Slowly we are on our way to a...

My first Virtual session in 2022 for Dataminds

DataMindsThis Tuesday I've joined the DataMinds user Group to talk about Azure Purview.  Azure Purview It was the first session of the year for both me and DataMinds. Some great questions during the session, thank you for that. You can find my slides below on...

My Virtual session DataWeekender 4.2

DataWeekender 4.2This Saturday I've joined the Van and Spoke at DataWeekenderAzure Purview I presented a session on Azure Purview Microsoft's answer to Data Governance and Data Lineage You can find my slides below on Slideshare: Data weekender4.2 azure purview erwin...

My Virtual Session DataSaturday #14 Oslo

DATA SATURDAY #14 OSLOThis Saturday I've been speaking during DataSaturday #4 Oslo. If you want to visit more Datasaturday events please visit the Data Saturdays event page.Azure Purview I presented a session on Azure Purview Microsoft's answer to Data Governance and...

SQLBits 2020(Video)

All sessions of SQLBits 2020 have been made available to everyone and can now be viewed via their Youtube channel. To make it easier to find a recording of your choice, a number of playlists have been created: Developer SQLBits 2020 - Developer sessions High...

My Virtual Session Cloud Lunch and Learn Marathon

Cloud Lunch and Learn Marathon 2021This Thursday May 13th 2021 I've been speaking during Cloud Lunch and Learn Marathon 2021. It was the first Cloud Lunch and Learn Marathon conference, more then 1200 registered attendees, 24hours Live and pre recorded sessions....

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Events I have been speaking or events which I have visited