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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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....

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...

Microsoft Certification by Solution Area Handy overview of the new Microsoft Azure Certifications. More details can be found here Feel free to leave a comment

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...

Changing jobsAfter almost 11 years and 4 months I have decided to leave Axians and to start a new adventure in the new year. On January 2, 2020 I will start my day as Lead Data and AI at InsparkThe past years have flown by. I started at Eniac BI, which was...