SQLBits 2023 Thanks everyone for visiting my session during SQLBits. It's great to see such a full room and that so many people have started using Microsoft Purview. SLIDES The slides can be downloaded via the link below, so that you can view them again at...
Goodbye 2022Recap It's that time of year again to reflect on the past year. Also think it's really good, to see what you've done in the past year. It is also the time again to traditionally bake Oliebollen on this day, a Dutch Tradition that we do on New Year's Eve....
Microsoft Build 2022MSBuild 2022 has just started. A lot of new Announcement will be released or demonstrated the upcoming days. Like every year or event most of these announcement are added to the Book of News.The book of news can be downloaded from the link below...
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:...
Azure Data Factory HackathonAround the clock During the event 'Around the clock Azure SQL and Azure Data Factory' event on Feb 3, 2021, they kicked-off the Azure Data Factory (ADF) Hackathon. Recording of this event can be found here.Winner I submitted a ADF Pipeline...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Azure Synapse Analytics Code repositoryI just opened my Azure Synapse Analytics Workspace and got a great surprise, the option Git Configuration is available as of today. After a long wait, today the Git Configuration option became available in Azure Synapse...
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...
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...