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DataMinds 2018

DataMinds 2018

Techorama NL 2023

An event in the Footbal Arena from Gent!

Two days after SQLSatholland it was time for DataMinds Connects, which was held in beautiful Belgian Ghent. The location for this event was in the stadium of KAA Gent.
Because the organization of SQLSatHolland and DataMinds worked well together, top speakers where present again.

Great event for Speakers
Nice detail, the speaker room was in the Presidential SkyBox with a very nice view in the Stadium.
And every speaker had his own football shirt.During this event I talked about Migrating your On Premise database to Azure SQL Data Warehouse
 
 
Migrate to Azure SQL DataWareHouse
Have you ever tried to migrate your DataWareHouse (DataVault) solution to a Azure SQL DataWareHouse? Azure SQL DW is a MPP system and requires a lot of changes to your current solution.What are the best practices for Migrate your solution? Why should you migrate to a Azure SQL DW? I did, and would like to share my experience. During the session I spoke about Distribution keys, Replicated Tables, identity Colums, CTAS, scaling, pausing, monitoring and much more.
Great Feedback
The session was well attended and the feedback was very good afterwards. I’m enjoying every time again to share my knowledge with the Community. Speaking at events always gives me a lot of energy.
Organisation
Compliments to the organizers Benni, Stijn and Frederik

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Data Toboggan January 2022 (Video)

Recording of my session during the Data Toboggan January 2022 conference. Dealing with different roles in Azure Synapse AnalyticsFeel free to leave a comment

Speaking(Virtual) at SQL Saturday #963 Denmark

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My Virtual Session Cloud Lunch and Learn Marathon

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Speaking at SQL BITS 2022

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Speaking at Techorama NL

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My Virtual Session Scottish Summit 2021

Scottisch Summit 2021This Saturday I've been speaking during Scottisch Summit 2021. It was my first Summit, but is was a great event, with more than  400 sessions covering the full Microsoft Stack in 7 different language English, Spanish, German, French, Italian,...

The new and refreshing Azure Data Factory home page

The Data Factory home page has been redesigned for a modern and more accessible (WCAG 2.1) experience. The new design is more fluid with better contrast and reflow capabilities.  Thank you to the complete product team for this great experience The new and refreshing...

DataSaturday NL 2019

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Data:Scotland

Data: Scotland 2022 Microsoft Purview Scotland’s Data Community Conference happened this year again in Glasgow. This years event was happening in  a sunny Glasgow, more then 400 attendees and more then 50 sessions. It was great to see so many people live again. I...

SQLBits session: Microsoft Purview Data Policy App

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...

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Service Health Alerts in Azure

Service Health Alerts in Azure

Techorama NL 2023

Maintenance and Service Healths in Azure

I get often questions, is there no maintenance in Azure. Like every data center, the Azure data center also needs maintenance. You can even be notified when a specific service, in a specific data center, has scheduled maintenance so that you will not be surprised.
 

Do you want know how to setup up these Service Health Alerts? Please click on the link below.
Service Healths in Azure

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ADF: Get Metadata Activity stopped working

Meta Data ActivityToday 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...

10 Days of Azure Synapse Analytics

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...

Enable Pattern Rules in Azure Purview

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Rerun Pipeline activities in Azure Data Factory

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 Synapse Analytics Code Repository has arrived

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 in ADF

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New Microsoft Azure Certifications

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Azure Purview Public Preview Starts billing

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Working from Home: How do I get my energy and focus back on track?

Working from home It has now been exactly 7 weeks since I started working from home. In the beginning this went with full energy, but now gradually the energy and the focus on the work is starting to drain.I'm the only one in here? I'm sure, I'm not. I regularly hear...

Azure Data Factory: Save a pipeline as a Template

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Service Healths in Azure

Techorama NL 2023

Techorama NL 2023

Creating Service Health Alerts in Azure

Azure Portal
In the Azure Portal go to Monitor – Service Health – Health alerts

If you have created alerts before you will see them over here. Assuming you haven’t created an Alert before, we will start to create an Alert.

1 Define Alert Condition:

Select the correction Subscription
Select the Azure Services where you want to get an Alert for
Select the Azure Region
And for this Alert Condition we will select only the Service issue as the Event Type.

2 Define Alert Details

Define Alert Rule name CustomerName – Service Issue Alert
Define Description
Select the Resource Group where you want to save this Alert. I’ve created a seperate Resource Group where I store everything which is related to Monitoring of my Azure Environment.

3 Define Action Group
The last step of the alert Creation is to setup how we want to notify people. I the example below I will care take about the  Action Group Type Email/SMS/Push/Voice

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
Fill in your email address
 
 
 
 
 
Fill in your email address and make your sure you install the Micrsosoft Azure app on your phone to receive push messages.
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
You also have the possibility to define multiple Action Groups.
Next time I will write how to change your Action Group to add or remove Members.
Thanks so much for reading through this article today, and I hope you all take some time to try it out. It’s will make your life easier.

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Azure Data Factory updates June

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Introduction to Real-Time Analytics in Microsoft Fabric

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Provision users and groups from AAD to Azure Databricks (part 1)

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Azure DevOps and Azure Feature Pack for Integration Services

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Provision users and groups from AAD to Azure Databricks (part 4)

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Service Healths in Azure

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Data Sharing in Microsoft Purview

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Azure Data Factory: How to assign a Customer Managed Key

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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...

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LEAP 2018

LEAP 2018

Techorama NL 2023

Lead Enterprise Architect Program

From the 4th of December until the 6th of December I’ve joined the LEAP (Lead Enterprise Architect Program) 2018 Data/AI from Microsoft NL.
Three  days on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond joining business and technical sessions from a diversity of speakers and Program Managers.
 

Amsterdam Seattle
After a long flight of 11 hours from Amsterdam to Seattle, we arrived around 13:00 on Sunday December 2nd. Since we have also gone back 9 hours, it is important to stay awake for as long as possible. So that we have less trouble with our Jetlag the following days(hopefully).
Jetlag
Fortunately we have one day of rest before Leap starts on Tuesday. The Monday we spend in Seattle. Starting the day with a nice breakfast at Pike Place.
After breakfast we went for a long walk trough downtown Seattle. In the afternoon we did a Locks tour by boat. A wonderful activity to get through your jetlag with a great view from Seattle. In the evening we end up in the Pike Brewery where we have met more Leap participants.
Finally it is Tuesday, Start of LEAP
After I have seen almost every hour on the clock during the night, I woke up early. The bus was leaving the hotel at 7:15 to the Microsoft Campus in Redmond where we were expected in the EBC (Executive Briefing Center) for breakfast.
Business – Technical
In the morning we have tracks with the whole group, in the afternoon we split up in Business and Technical tracks. The first day is dedicated to various sessions about Azure, DevOps and Digital Transformation for Partners. In the afternoon I have followed the technical sessions where we talked about DevOps, DataBricks and DataLake. Super cool to see how open all Program Managers are. All sessions are dedicated to questions that we have and which were all answered well. We ended the day with a group dinner.
Day 2
Day 2 is kicked off by Rohan Kunar, CVP Azure Data, followed by a session on AI and Serverless Architecture. In the afternoon we talked this time about IOT and Machine Learning. We closed the evening with dinner in a Brazilian Restaurant, the atmosphere was great and some participants will remember this evening for the time being.
What happened in Seattle stays in Seattle!
3 Wonderful days are coming to an end
The last day we started with a White Board session of the Distinguished Architect of Microsoft, a beautiful session in which many topics about the use and the future of data.We closed the morning with a Technical session about the Power Platform.
Seattle by Night
After a few hours of rest, yes the jet lag still works, we finalized the day in Seattle with some other participants with a drink at the Taphouse Grill, if you are in Seattle, a must to visit, they have more than 150 beers on tap. For dinner we end up in the CheeseCake Factory.
I had 3 top days, thanks for the organization and the super nice program. Personally, I got a lot of energy out of these days and good to see that we are on the right track as Axians.
See you next time.

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Service Health Alerts in Azure

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Enable Pattern Rules in Azure Purview

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Calculate the Last Day of the Month using SQL

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Data Factory Pricing

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Azure Purview March Updates

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