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Power BI Cruise
Data, Bratwurst and Beer
An event that started 5 years ago as a small event, that has grown into an event with 200 participants, 50+ sessions, 5 tracks, 2 days and a BBQ in a small place in Germany, called Lingen. William Durkin and Ben Weissman are the main organizers, but are supported by a bunch of volunteers and supported by a great group of sponsors.
Speaker/Volunteer diner
Wednesday the event started for me with a drink in Hotel Lobby and with a great dinner in the Alte Posthalterei. We had a great evening, met some old friends and made some new friends.
Sessions
The first day started early, we helped preparing the badges and did the check in. Around 9:00 am almost every attendee was in and ready for the Keynote. During the keynote there was a special welcome to all the newcomer Speakers and their mentors. This newcomer track is designed to accommodate people new to presenting. In my opinion this newcomer tracks should be introduced to all events.
During these 2 days there were 5 sessions divided over 5 tracks on both days. I have attended many nice sessions, but I have certainly gained a lot of new inspiration out of these sessions.
Day 1 ended with the traditional bbq. Personally, I love bbq a lot and know that it is hard work to get a bbq for 200 people, but the catering did very well. Compliments to the catering.
During the days I have spoken to many people, both well-known and also many new ones. From Axians we joined this event with 3 people.
We are 1 large #sqlfamily.
Rafle time
After 2 tiring days, the event was traditionally closed on Friday by William and Ben with the raffle. And that was for me also the end of 2 great days and I could start with my home trip.
Sponsors
Thank you Solisyon, Datamasterminds, SentryOne, PowerBi Sentinel, dbWatch, Rosen, Shop Apotheke Europe, Redgate, Hedda and IT Emsland without you the event wasn’t free, there where no drinks and there was no food.
Next Year
Next year the event will take place on may 28 and may 29.
Call for Speakers is open https://sessionize.com/datagrillen-2020/
See you next year. And once again thank you William and Ben for organizing
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DataSaturday NL 2019
Recording of my session on DataSaturdayNL 2019 Can we store our Connectionstrings or BlobStorageKeys or other Secretvalues somewhere else then in Azure Data Factory(ADF)? Yes you can! You can store these valuable secrets in Azure Key Vault(AKV). But how can we achieve...
My Virtual Session Cloud Lunch and Learn Marathon
Cloud Lunch and Learn Marathon 2021This Thursday May 13th 2021 I've been speaking during Cloud Lunch and Learn Marathon 2021. It was the first Cloud Lunch and Learn Marathon conference, more then 1200 registered attendees, 24hours Live and pre recorded sessions....
Scottisch Summit 2021(Video)
Recording of my session during Scottisch Summit 2021 Is there a way that we can build our Azure DataFactory all with parameters based on MetaData?Feel free to leave a comment
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 at SQLBits in London (postponed to September 2020)
SQLBits 2020SQLBits is the largest Microsoft Data Platform conference in Europe taking place between 29nd September and 3rd October2020 at the Excel London.Proud to be speaking I am very proud and happy that one of my sessions was selected for SQLBits. It's not the...
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...
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...
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,...
Data Saturday Stockholm
Data Saturday Stockholm Bra så alla tillbaka personligen This means great so everyone back in person. Last weekend I had the honor to speak at Data Saturday in Stockholm. About one of my favourite topics Azure Synapse Analytics. It was nice to see everyone in person...
Data Community Austria
Unleashing the Potential of Metadata-Driven ELT Framework in Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Fabric Today, I had the opportunity to speak at the Data Community Austria Day 2024, a full day of sessions dedicated to data enthusiasts and professionals. The event was held...
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Power BI Cruise
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.
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After debugging my Pipeline I found out the output.structure couldn’t be evaluated.
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I don’t know when this option was added, but if you open the Get Metadata Activity you will find under Dataset the option Field List
The only thing I needed to do get my previous output back was adding structure as an argument. The structure will take care of the Metadata of my table and will be used in the Copy Data Activity.
After rerunning my Pipeline the error was gone.
I changed all my pipelines and the processes where running fine again. I took me bit to find out what the exact error was.
Hopefully it will save you some time after reading this blog.
More about the Get Metadata Activity can be found here .
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Parameterize Linked Services in ADF
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...
Enable Pattern Rules in Azure Purview
How can I enable Pattern Rules?​Pattern Rules Last night I was preparing for a demo with Azure Purview. As always, I walk through all the activity hubs to see if there are any new options. This time I noticed that the Pattern Rules option was greyed out. Resource Set...
Goodbye 2020 Hello 2021
Goodbye 2020Â 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...
Microsoft Build 2022 Book of News
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...
How to enable Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft FabricI got some questions from customers that didn’t know how to enable Microsoft Fabric and that they only see Power BI Items and not the new announced Experiences. In this short blog I will explain how you can easily enable Microsoft Fabric.How to enable...
Restore a accidentally deleted Azure SQL Database
Help I deleted my Logical Server​OOPS Have you ever experienced that you accidentally deleted your Logical Server in Azure? Because, for example, you made your Pipeline wrong. Surely. And of course you didn't have a backup in your storage either.Well I must confess...
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...
How to check your SQL Server Quota in Azure?
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...
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...
New Microsoft Azure Certifications
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
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Power BI Cruise
Techorama = Deep Knowledge IT Conference
Techorama is a yearly international technology conference which takes place at Pathé Ede, Netherlands from September 30th until October 2nd. This will be the second year the event will be in held in the Netherlands. Last year more then 1100 people attend the Conference. This year the organisation expect around 1500 attendees.
Proud to be speaking
This year I will also speak at Techorama. I was very happy when I received a message at the end of April that my session was selected. Something to be very proud of.
Session Title:
Azure Key Vault, Azure Dev Ops and Data Factory how do these Azure Services work perfectly together!
Session Details
Can we store our Connectionstrings or BlobStorageKeys or other Secretvalues somewhere else then in Azure Data Factory(ADF)? Yes you can! You can store these valuable secrets in Azure Key Vault(AKV). But how can we achieve this in ADF? And finally how do we deploy our DataFactories in Azure Dev Ops to Test, Acceptance and Production environments with these Secrets ? Can this be setup dynamically? During this session I will give answers on all of these questions. You will learn how to setup your Azure Key Vault, connect these secrets in ADF and finally deploy these secrets dynamically in Azure Dev Ops. As you can see a lot to talk about during this session.
Wednesday October 2, 2019 10:00am – 11:00am
Room 5
Complete agenda
September 30th:
Workshops
October 1st and 2nd:
Sessions
No tickets yet, click here to reserve your spot. Hope to see you all at Techorama.
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My Virtual Session Cloud Lunch and Learn Marathon
Cloud Lunch and Learn Marathon 2021This Thursday May 13th 2021 I've been speaking during Cloud Lunch and Learn Marathon 2021. It was the first Cloud Lunch and Learn Marathon conference, more then 1200 registered attendees, 24hours Live and pre recorded sessions....
Speaking at SQL Server Konferenz 2020
SQL Server Konferenz SQL Server Konferenz 2020 is a international Conference which is held each year in Darmstadt, Germany.Trilled to be speaking This year I will speak and attend SQL Server Konferenz 2020 from March 3th until March 5th. I was very happy when I...
Scottisch Summit 2021(Video)
Recording of my session during Scottisch Summit 2021 Is there a way that we can build our Azure DataFactory all with parameters based on MetaData?Feel free to leave a comment
My Virtual session at Data Toboggan
An inaugural event specializing on Azure Synapse AnalyticsData Toboggan This Saturday I've been speaking during Data Toboggan an inaugural event specializing on Azure Synapse Analytics. 12 Hours of sessions with amazing speakers.Azure Purview I presented a session...
Datagrillen: Data, Bratwurst und Beer
Data, Bratwurst and BeerAn event that started 5 years ago as a small event, that has grown into an event with 200 participants, 50+ sessions, 5 tracks, 2 days and a BBQ in a small place in Germany, called Lingen. William Durkin and Ben Weissman are the main...
My first Virtual session in 2022 for Dataminds
DataMindsThis 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...
Data Saturday Stockholm
Data Saturday Stockholm Bra så alla tillbaka personligen This means great so everyone back in person. Last weekend I had the honor to speak at Data Saturday in Stockholm. About one of my favourite topics Azure Synapse Analytics. It was nice to see everyone in person...
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
DataGrillen 2022
DataGrillen 2022 Microsoft Purview When we say: Data, bratwurst and beer, we are of course talking about DataGrillen. After more than 2 years of absence, it was time again in recent days, with speakers from all over the world with almost 50 sessions, good weather and...
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...
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Power BI Cruise
Power BI Cruise
DataSaturday Holland and DataMinds in Belgium
Like last year I have been selected again this year for both events to speak.
Cool to be able to speak at 3 different events within 7 days, but also to see many known people and to met new people.
Data Saturday
Data Saturday Holland is the new name for SQL Saturday Holland, The Microsoft Data Platform themed community event which will be held at a new location Pathé Leidsche Rijn.
This year I will for the first time join forces with Ahmed Mansour, Cloud Solution Architect @Microsoft
Session Title:
Help, I need to migrate my On Premise Database to Azure, which Database Tier do I have to choose from.
Session Details:
During this session we will walk you through all the different Tiers in Azure, DTU, Vcore, Serverless and Managed Instance and will provide examples when to use which Tier.We will also show you the Microsoft Data Migration Assesment (DMA). This tool will help you to decide which tier you should choose. So if you need help or just interested in the different Azure Database Tiers then visit our session
Saturday October 5, 2019 16:00pm – 16:45pm
Room 4
Tickets are still available, so reserve your spot quickly.
DataMinds Connect
This year DataMinds Connect will be held in Lamot, a unique convention center located along the water, in the historic center of Mechelen.
Session Title:
Azure Key Vault, Azure Dev Ops and Data Factory how do these Azure Services work perfectly together!
Session Details:
Can we store our Connectionstrings or BlobStorageKeys or other Secretvalues somewhere else then in Azure Data Factory(ADF)? Yes you can! You can store these valuable secrets in Azure Key Vault(AKV). But how can we achieve this in ADF? And finally how do we deploy our DataFactories in Azure Dev Ops to Test, Acceptance and Production environments with these Secrets ? Can this be setup dynamically? During this session I will give answers on all of these questions. You will learn how to setup your Azure Key Vault, connect these secrets in ADF and finally deploy these secrets dynamically in Azure Dev Ops. As you can see a lot to talk about during this session.
Tuesday October 8, 2019 16:45pm – 17:45pm
Room Alcazar
No tickets yet, you can order them here!
Techorama NL
I will speaking during Techorama NL, I’ve written a post about this event a couple days ago, which you can find here
See you all in October on one of these events.
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Video: Learn Live Use Data Factory pipelines in Microsoft Fabric
Below you find the recording form the session for Learn Live which I did together with Javier. Use Data Factory pipelines in Microsoft Fabric Use Data Factory pipelines in Microsoft Fabric - Training | Microsoft Learn After you have followed above learning path...
My virtual session at Data Toboggan
Data TobogganThis 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 on...
DataSaturday NL 2019
Recording of my session on DataSaturdayNL 2019 Can we store our Connectionstrings or BlobStorageKeys or other Secretvalues somewhere else then in Azure Data Factory(ADF)? Yes you can! You can store these valuable secrets in Azure Key Vault(AKV). But how can we achieve...
Techoroma NL 2019
Azure Key Vault, Azure Dev Ops and Azure Data Factory how do these Azure Services work perfectly together! Some impressions during Techorama NL 2019. Feel free to leave a comment
My Virtual session at Data Toboggan
An inaugural event specializing on Azure Synapse AnalyticsData Toboggan This Saturday I've been speaking during Data Toboggan an inaugural event specializing on Azure Synapse Analytics. 12 Hours of sessions with amazing speakers.Azure Purview I presented a session...
My First Blog Post SQLSatHolland 790
Yeah, my first blog is LIVEAfter a good talk with Reza Rad from RADACAD during SQLSatHolland, I decided to start my first blog!Knowledge sharing is very important, it gives me a lot of energy. But it also gives others people in the community energies to pick up new...
My first Virtual session in 2022 for Dataminds
DataMindsThis 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...
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...
My Virtual Session DataSaturday #1 Pordenone
DATA SATURDAY #1 PORDENONEThis Saturday I've been speaking during DataSaturday #1 Pordenono. The first ever DataSaturday after Pass has retired. If you want to visit more Datasaturday events please visit the Data Saturdays event page.Azure Purview I presented a...
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...
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