Goodbye 2020 Started to work for InSpark Last year was certainly an eventful year. Started with a new job at InSpark and after 10 weeks we all know what happened, the first intelligent lockdown. The Netherlands was partially locked, but our office was immediately...

Microsoft Build 2022MSBuild 2022 has just started. A lot of new Announcement will be released or demonstrated the upcoming days. Like every year or event most of these announcement are added to the Book of News.The book of news can be downloaded from the link below...

Calculate Workingdays between 2 Date columnsRecently I have been getting some questions from my customers, can I calculate the number of workdays between 2 dates? Of course my answer was, yes you can. But I do want certain closing dates and holidays of our company not...

Microsoft Fabric PricingMicrosoft Fabric pricing in Public Preview is announced as of the 1 st of June.These are currently the Pay as You go pricing, later this year the Azure Reservation will follow. OneLake storage pricing is comparable to Azure ADLS (Azure Data...

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...

New functionalities and featuresLast week, a number of great new functionalities and features were added within Azure Data Factory. I would like to take you in some details in the blog below:Customer key With this new functionality you can add extra security to your...

DataSaturday NL 2019Date: 5 th October Location: Pathé Leidsche Rijn Data Saturday Holland is the new name for SQL Saturday Holland. A new start a new location and wow what a top location, Pathé Leidsche Rijn. A cinema with 7 screens and ranging from 180 to 668 seats....

SQLBits 2023 Thanks everyone for visiting my session during SQLBits. It's great to see such a full room and that so many people have started using Microsoft Purview.  SLIDES The slides can be downloaded via the link below, so that you can view them again at...

Parameterize Linked Services For my Azure Data Factory solution I wanted to Parameterize properties in my Linked Services. Not all properties are Parameterized by default through the UI. But there's another way to achieve this.    Linked Service Open your existing...

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...