Purchase your Azure SQL Datawarehouse Reservation Since a few weeks you can buy Reserved Capacity for an Azure SQL Datawarehouse (SQLDW). This Reservation can save you up to 65% on the normal Pay as You go rates with a 3 year pre-commit. A pre-commit of 1 year...
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
Azure Subscription Usages for SQL Server Last week we reached our Logical server Quota in Azure. By default you're only allowed to add 20 Logical Servers, but we wanted to have some more for testing purposes. Microsoft Support You can submit a support ticket trough...
Rerun Pipeline activities in ADF! As of today you can rerun or partially, yes you’re reading it correct partially, rerun you Azure Data Factory pipeline.Where you previously had to run the entire Pipeline again, you can now run a part of the Pipeline. This can save a...
Azure DevOps More and more users are starting with Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps can be used for up to 5 users free of charge and is therefore a great start to start a project. Build and Release I will not describe what Azure DevOps can do, because that is too much...
Azure Feature Pack for Integration Services Azure Blob Storage A great addition for SSIS is using extra connectors like Azure Blob Storage or Azure Data Lake Store which are added by the Azure Feature Pack. This Pack needs to be installed on your local machine. Are...
ADF Mapping Flow Did you use the Dataflow preview functionality in Azure Data Factory? This has recently be renamed to Mapping Data Flows. All video's which the ADF team has created, are collected. Start Here: ADF Data Flow: Overview ADF Data Flow: Data Flow...
$variable({"type":"content","value":{"name":"post_title","settings":{"before":"","after":""}}})$ Last week I mentioned that we could save a Pipeline to GIT. But today I found out that you can also create a Pipeline from a predefined Solution Template. Template Gallery...
Saving a Pipeline Another 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...