Goodbye 2021Recap First of all, I would like to wish everyone a very beautiful and healthy 2022. We are now 3 days on the road into the new year and it is always good to look back at what happened last year. It's certainly been an eventful year, topped off with my MVP...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Add custom comments to your Azure DevOps and Github commitsFinally ​Finally and secretly hidden, we can now add a Comment to our commits in Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Data Factory to Azure Dev Ops. How do you activate this custom comment option in your existing...

10 Days of Azure Synapse AnalyticsFor the next 10 days, every day a different topic is explained about Azure Synapse Analytics. The shortest and easiest way to see how Azure Synapse Analytics can help you, to make decisions within your data landscape.Day 1...

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...

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...