Azure Synapse Analytics Code repository‎I just opened my Azure Synapse Analytics Workspace and got a great surprise, the option Git Configuration is available as of today‎.    After a long wait, today the Git Configuration option became available in Azure Synapse...

Working from home It has now been exactly 7 weeks since I started working from home. In the beginning this went with full energy, but now gradually the energy and the focus on the work is starting to drain.I'm the only one in here? I'm sure, I'm not. I regularly hear...

Rerun Pipeline activities in ADF! As of today you can rerun or partially, yes you’re reading it correct partially, rerun you Azure Data Factory pipeline.Where you previously had to run the entire Pipeline again, you can now run a part of the Pipeline. This can save a...

Microsoft Fabric is a cloud-based platform that provides integrated data engineering and data science solutions. One of the key features of Microsoft Fabric is the support for Apache Spark, a distributed computing framework that enables large-scale data processing and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Data Factory pricingAre you also having problems to understand the Pricing Model for Azure Data Factory? After some research on the internet I came across an article which I wanted to share with you. ADFV2 Pricing ExamplesFeel free to leave a comment

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...