October=Speaking Month

October=Speaking Month

by | Aug 28, 2019 | Events

Erwin

DataSaturday Holland and DataMinds in Belgium

Like last year I have been selected again this year for both events to speak.

Cool to be able to speak at 3 different events within 7 days, but also to see many known people and to met new people.

Data DSaturdayData Saturday

Data Saturday Holland is the new name for SQL Saturday Holland, The Microsoft Data Platform themed community event which will be held at a new location Pathé Leidsche Rijn.

This year I will for the first time join forces with Ahmed Mansour, Cloud Solution Architect @Microsoft

 

Session Title:

Help, I need to migrate my On Premise Database to Azure, which Database Tier do I have to choose from.

Session Details:

During this session we will walk you through all the different Tiers in Azure, DTU, Vcore, Serverless and Managed Instance and will provide examples when to use which Tier.
We will also show you the Microsoft Data Migration Assesment (DMA). This tool will help you to decide which tier you should choose. So if you need help or just interested in the different Azure Database Tiers then visit our session

Saturday October 5, 2019 16:00pm - 16:45pm

Room 4

Tickets are still available, so reserve your spot quickly.

ConnectDataMinds Connect

This year DataMinds Connect will be held in Lamot, a unique convention center located along the water, in the historic center of Mechelen.

 

Session Title:

Azure Key Vault, Azure Dev Ops and Data Factory how do these Azure Services work perfectly together!

Session Details:

Can we store our Connectionstrings or BlobStorageKeys or other Secretvalues somewhere else then in Azure Data Factory(ADF)? Yes you can! You can store these valuable secrets in Azure Key Vault(AKV). But how can we achieve this in ADF? And finally how do we deploy our DataFactories in Azure Dev Ops to Test, Acceptance and Production environments with these Secrets ? Can this be setup dynamically? During this session I will give answers on all of these questions. You will learn how to setup your Azure Key Vault, connect these secrets in ADF and finally deploy these secrets dynamically in Azure Dev Ops. As you can see a lot to talk about during this session.

Tuesday October 8, 2019 16:45pm - 17:45pm

Room Alcazar

No tickets yet,  you can order them here!

Techorama NL

I will speaking during Techorama NL, I've written a post about this event a couple days ago, which you can find here

See you all in October on one of these events.

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Speaking at Techorama NL

Speaking at Techorama NL

by | Aug 19, 2019 | Events

Techorama = Deep Knowledge IT Conference

Techorama is a yearly international technology conference which takes place at Pathé Ede, Netherlands from September 30th until October 2nd. This will be the second year the event will be in held in the Netherlands. Last year more then 1100 people attend the Conference. This year the organisation expect around 1500 attendees.

Proud to be speaking

This year I will also speak at Techorama. I was very happy when I received a message at the end of April that my session was selected. Something to be very proud of.

Session Title:

Azure Key Vault, Azure Dev Ops and Data Factory how do these Azure Services work perfectly together!

Session Details

Can we store our Connectionstrings or BlobStorageKeys or other Secretvalues somewhere else then in Azure Data Factory(ADF)? Yes you can! You can store these valuable secrets in Azure Key Vault(AKV). But how can we achieve this in ADF? And finally how do we deploy our DataFactories in Azure Dev Ops to Test, Acceptance and Production environments with these Secrets ? Can this be setup dynamically? During this session I will give answers on all of these questions. You will learn how to setup your Azure Key Vault, connect these secrets in ADF and finally deploy these secrets dynamically in Azure Dev Ops. As you can see a lot to talk about during this session.

Wednesday October 2, 2019 10:00am - 11:00am

Room 5

 

Complete agenda

September 30th:

Workshops

October 1st and 2nd:

Sessions

 

No tickets yet, click here to reserve your spot. Hope to see you all at Techorama.

 

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ADF: Get Metadata Activity stopped working

ADF: Get Metadata Activity stopped working

by | Jul 1, 2019 | Azure, Azure Data Factory

Erwin

by Erwin | Jul 1, 2019

Meta Data Activity

Today 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 output.structure couldn't be evaluated.

ADF METADATA Error

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Field List

I don't know when this option was added, but if you open the Get Metadata Activity you will find under Dataset the option Field List

ADF METADATA Error field list

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The only thing I needed to do get my previous output back was adding structure as an argument. The structure will take care of the Metadata of my table and will be used in the Copy Data Activity.

ADF METADATA Structure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After rerunning my Pipeline the error was gone.ADF METADATA working

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I changed all my pipelines and the processes where running fine again. I took me bit to find out what the exact error was.

 

Hopefully it will save you some time after reading this blog.

More about the Get Metadata Activity can be found here .

Feel free to leave a comment

Datagrillen: Data, Bratwurst und Beer

Datagrillen: Data, Bratwurst und Beer

by | Jun 24, 2019 | Events

Data, Bratwurst and Beer

An event that started 5 years ago as a small event, that has grown into an event with 200 participants, 50+ sessions, 5 tracks, 2 days and a BBQ in a small place in Germany, called Lingen. William Durkin and Ben Weissman are the main organizers, but are supported by a bunch of volunteers and supported by a great group of sponsors.

Speaker/Volunteer diner

Wednesday the event started for me with a drink in Hotel Lobby and with a great dinner in the Alte Posthalterei. We had a great evening, met some old friends and made some new friends.

DataGrillen Dinner

Sessions

DataGrillen Keynote

The first day started early, we helped preparing the badges and did the check in. Around 9:00 am almost every attendee was in and ready for the Keynote. During the keynote there was a special welcome to all the newcomer Speakers and their mentors. This newcomer track is designed to accommodate people new to presenting. In my opinion this newcomer tracks should be introduced to all events.

During these 2 days there were 5 sessions divided over 5 tracks on both days. I have attended many nice sessions, but I have certainly gained a lot of new inspiration out of these sessions.

DataGrillen Axians

Day 1 ended with the traditional bbq. Personally, I love bbq a lot and know that it is hard work to get a bbq for 200 people, but the catering did very well. Compliments to the catering.

During the days I have spoken to many people, both well-known and also many new ones. From Axians we joined this event with 3 people.

We are 1 large #sqlfamily.

 

 

Rafle time

After 2 tiring days, the event was traditionally closed on Friday by William and Ben with the raffle. And that was for me also the end of 2 great days and I could start with my home trip.DataGrillen Raffle

 

Sponsors

Thank you Solisyon, Datamasterminds, SentryOne, PowerBi Sentinel, dbWatch, Rosen, Shop Apotheke Europe, Redgate, Hedda and IT Emsland without you the event wasn't free, there where no drinks and there was no food.

Next Year

Next year the event will take place on may 28 and may 29.

Call for Speakers is  open https://sessionize.com/datagrillen-2020/

See you next year. And once again thank you William and Ben for organizing

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SSMS 18.xx: Creating your Azure Data Factory SSIS IR directly in SSMS

by | Jun 18, 2019 | Sql Server Management Studio, Azure Data Factory

Creating your Azure Data Factory(ADF) SSIS IR in SSMS

Since  version 18.0 we could see our Integration Catalog on Azure Instances directly.

Yesterday I wrote an article how to Schedule your SSIS Packages in ADF, during writing that article I found out that you can also created your SSIS IR(Integration Runtime) directly in SSMS.

I never saw the option before, it was always grayed out(because the SSISDB was already in Azure). But if you connect to an On Premise system it will not be grayed out.

An easy scenario to lift and shift your SSIS Packages to Azure, with a couple of steps you can create your SSIS IR.

Go to your Integration Services Catalog on your On Premise Server. Right Click and select the option "Try SSIS in Azure Data Factory" and click on Next.

Create ADF

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prerequisites

As Prerequisites you will need:

An Azure account.

An Azure SQL Database server or Managed Instance.

 

Configuration of your SSIS IR

Create SSIS IR in Azure wizard.

Creating ADF SSIS SSMS

On the right upper corner you can log in to your Azure Subscription.

Select the correction Subscription, in case your have more subscription assigned to this account.

Select the Catalog Server where you want to install your SSIS IR on. This server cannot have an existing SSISDB.

Provide the necessary log in details and click on connect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Creating ADF SSIS SSMS Validation

 

The last step is to Create your SSIS IR.

After you have clicked on Create,  SSMS will do some validations and after these validations you will be asked to open the ADF Portal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Azure Data Factory Portal

Creating ADF SSIS

 

 

 

After you logged into the portal you will see a summary of the detail how your SSIS IR will be setup.

If you click on next your SSIS IR will be started.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Change Settings

To change any of the Parameters above you need to use the previous button. You can change:

Number of Parallel Executions Per Node

Custom Setup Container SAS URI

VNET

Node Size

License

The name of your SSIS IR and Resource Group are create by the setup and cannot be changed.

The Resource Group for example is created in the Region US-East.

 

ADF Pipeline

 

 

Conclusion

It is a simple way to setup your SSIS IR in Azure, but I do prefer do this my self trough the Azure Portal or automated with a PowerShell script.