Customer key With this new functionality you can add extra security to your Azure Data Factory environment. Where the data was first encrypted with a randomly generated key from Microsoft, you can now use the customer-managed key feature. With this Bring Your Own Key...
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Using Azure Automation to generate data in your WideWorldImporters database
CASE: For my test environment I want to load every day new increments into the WideWorldImporters Azure SQL Database with Azure Automation. The following Stored Procedure is available to achieve this. EXECUTE DataLoadSimulation.PopulateDataToCurrentDate...
Updated competency exams and certifications Data Platform and Data Analytics for 2020
Retiring and new exams and certifications as of June 30 2020 A lot of Exams and certifications for Data Platform and Data Analytics are retiring on June 30 2020. All retired Exams and certifications will remain eligible for competency attainment and renewal until June...
Create Virtual Machines with Azure DevTest Lab
A while ago I had to give a training. Normally I would roll out a number of virtual machines in Azure. Until someone brought my attention to an Azure Service, Azure DevTest Labs. With this Azure service you can easily create a basic image and use this image to roll...
Book of News Microsoft Ignite 2019
Microsoft Ignite 2019 MSIgnite 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...
ADF: Get Metadata Activity stopped working
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...
SSMS 18.xx: Creating your Azure Data Factory SSIS IR directly in SSMS
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...
SSMS 18.1: Schedule your SSIS Packages in Azure Data Factory
Schedule your SSIS Packages with SSMS in Azure Data Factory(ADF) This week SQL Server Management Studio version 18.1 was released, which can be downloaded from here. In version 18.1 the Database diagrams are back and from now on we can also schedule SSIS Packages in...
Azure SQL Data Warehouse: Reserved Capacity versus Pay as You go
How do I use my Reserved Capacity correctly? Update 11-11-2020: This also applies to Azure Synapse SQL Pools. In my previous article you were introduced, how to create a Reserved Capacity for an Azure SQL Datawarehouse (SQLDW). Now it's time to take a look at how this...


