Saving a PipelineAnother great improvement in Azure Data Factory. Saving you template!How can you save your template? First of all you need to connect your Azure Data Factory to  a GIT integration. Both Azure DevOps GIT and GitHub are supported. Please follow this...

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....

Maintenance and Service Healths in AzureI get often questions, is there no maintenance in Azure. Like every data center, the Azure data center also needs maintenance. You can even be notified when a specific service, in a specific data center, has scheduled...

Azure Purview updatesAnnouncements Last week during SQLBITS, quite a few new updates were announced. I would like to include you in these announcements.March updates Support for SAP Business Warehouse (Preview) Blogpost:...

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...

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...

Calculate the Last DayToday I needed to calculate the last day of the previous month for a Customer.Ever heard from the function EOMONTH? Searching on the web I came across a function I never heard from before EOMONTH, this function can be used as of SQL Server 2012....

Azure Synapse Analytics  Insights for all Azure Synapse provides a breathtaking view of your data across data warehouses and big data analytics systems. Bringing these two worlds together into a single service is challenging as it requires unifying similar...

Retiring and new exams and certifications as of June 30 2020 A lot of Exams and certifications for Data Platform and Data Analytics are retiring on June 30 2020. All retired Exams and certifications will remain eligible for competency attainment and renewal until June...

Microsoft Ignite 2019MSIgnite 2019 has almost come to an end. A lot of new Annoucement have been released and presented.  Would you also like to know which announcements have been made?Microsoft has released during MSIgnite a "Book of News". This book contains all new...