ADF Mapping FlowDid you use the Dataflow preview functionality in Azure Data Factory? This has recently be renamed to Mapping Data Flows.  All video's which the ADF team has created, are collected. Start Here: ADF Data Flow: Overview ADF Data Flow: Data Flow...

Add custom comments to your Azure DevOps and Github commitsFinally ​Finally and secretly hidden, we can now add a Comment to our commits in Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Data Factory to Azure Dev Ops. How do you activate this custom comment option in your existing...

Meta Data ActivityToday my pipelines in Azure Data Factory (ADF) suddenly stopped working. The output structure was not found. Quit strange while these pipelines have been running for weeks.    Invalid Template After debugging my Pipeline I found out the...

Billing for Azure Purview(Public Preview)As of January 20th 2021 0:00 UTC Azure Purview will starts billing.Preview From January 20 ,2021 Azure Purview will start billing. During the Public Preview, you will only be billed if you exceed the 4 capacity units for Azure...

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...

Azure DevOpsMore and more users are starting with Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps can be used for up to 5 users free of charge and is therefore a great start to start a project.    Build and Release I will not describe what Azure DevOps can do, because that is too much to...

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...

Microsoft FabricI got some questions from customers that didn’t know how to enable Microsoft Fabric and that they only see Power BI Items and not the new announced Experiences. In this short blog I will explain how you can easily enable Microsoft Fabric.How to enable...

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...

Azure Subscription Usages for SQL Server  Last week we reached our Logical server Quota in Azure. By default you're only allowed to add 20 Logical Servers, but we wanted to have some more for testing purposes.Microsoft Support You can submit a support ticket trough...