SQLBITS 2022
SQL BITS 2022 What a great time I had Wednesday 9th of March the time had finally come, at 1830 my plane would leave for London City. After all the preparations over the past few weeks, the time was there. After arriving in London City and checking in at the hotel, I…
Speaking at SQL BITS 2022
SQL BITS 2022 We’re Hitting the Arcade SQL Bits is back this year in London from March 8-12 2022. SQLBits is the largest data conference in the world and this year’s theme is to bring us back to our incandescent youth, so prepare to level up your data skills and reach…
My virtual session at Data Toboggan
Data Toboggan This Saturday I’ve joined the Data Toboggan to talk about Azure Synapse Analytics. Azure Synapse Analytics Today I’ve been talking on how to deal with all the different roles in Azure Synapse Analytics during Data Toboggan. An event 100% focussed…
How to use concurrency in Azure Synapse pipelines?
How to prevent concurrent pipeline execution? Concurrency This week I had a discussion with a colleague about how we can now make sure that a Pipeline does not start when it’s already started. He then indicated, have you ever thought of the concurrency option? I’ve…
My first Virtual session in 2022 for Dataminds
DataMinds This Tuesday I’ve joined the DataMinds user Group to talk about Azure Purview. Azure Purview It was the first session of the year for both me and DataMinds. Some great questions during the session, thank you for that. You can find my slides below on…
Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022
Goodbye 2021 Recap 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…
Migrate Azure Storage to Azure Data Lake Gen2
Migrate Azure Storage to Storage Account with Azure Data Lake Gen2 capabilities Does it sometimes happen that you come across a Storage Account where the Hierarchical namespace is not enabled or that you still have a Storage Account V1? In the tutorial below I…
Azure Synapse Analyics costs analyis for Integration Runtime
AutoResolveIntegrationRuntime! The last few days I’ve been following some discussions on Twitter on using a separate Integration Runtime in Azure Synapse Analytics running in the selected region instead of auto-resolve. The AutoResolveIntegrationRuntime is…
My Virtual session DataWeekender 4.2
DataWeekender 4.2 This Saturday I’ve joined the Van and Spoke at DataWeekender Azure Purview I presented a session on Azure Purview Microsoft’s answer to Data Governance and Data Lineage You can find my slides below on Slideshare: Data weekender4.2 azure purview erwin…
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