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 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:...

Lead Enterprise Architect ProgramFrom the 4th of December until the 6th of December I've joined the LEAP (Lead Enterprise Architect Program) 2018 Data/AI from Microsoft NL. Three  days on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond joining business and technical sessions from a...

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 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...

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...

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 Purview Ignite 2021 AnnoucementPricing This week the Azure Purview announced that they will extend the Azure Purview offer to provision 4 Capacity Units of the Data Map for free till May 31, 2021! Charging will start on June 1, 2021. Great news for customer who...

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