This week, I was invited to the Microsoft office in London. The reason was a Level 400 training for Microsoft partners on Real-Time Intelligence. As I've been working with RTI on a large project for the last year, it felt natural to join this training. My objectives were not listed, but I wanted to see … Continue reading Attending a Level 400 training at Microsoft.
A three-line title that promises a lot! So let's try to simplify this a bit. In essence, this blog will cover how to make OneLake data quicker in an Eventhouse using shortcuts. The process, at a high level, is quite simple. In your eventhouse, create a shortcut to a Lakehouse, for instance. Enable query acceleration, … Continue reading DP-700 training: Choose between query acceleration for OneLake shortcuts and standard OneLake shortcuts in Real-Time Intelligence
This month, Koen Verbeeck invites the blogging community to write about their thoughts on returning to on-premises. What could be struggles, things we have to re-learn, etcetera. When I read the invite, it immediately sparked inspiration, because there are increasing rumours around cloud exits. People musing about 'what if'. Some clients reference these questions, but … Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday #199: Back to on-prem?
The DP-800 training is new and was released to GA a few weeks ago. It now sits in the same family as DP-600 (Data Analytics using Microsoft Fabric), 700 (Data Engineering using Microsoft Fabric) and 750 (Data Engineering using Databricks). The full name of this training is "Develop AI-Enabled Database Solutions". This one sparked my … Continue reading DP-800: First Microsoft Learn experiences
Let me start this blog post by asking you a question. Q. When was the last time you looked at your redundancy? Yes, this is a very vague question because there's a lot of interpretation you can put into it. Even though it's very valid to think about your personal redundancy (who can fill in … Continue reading Remember your Redundancy
Last month, my company got me a new laptop. I have very little choice in which one I get, and I have to reinstall a lot of software. So, what to do next? Option one: download and install This is something I see a lot of people do: make a list of the software they … Continue reading Chocolatey, and how to quickly set up your new laptop
This blog can also be known as 'The Sequel', not to be confused with SQL, even though Fabric SQL will be mentioned in this blog. Anyway, I digress and don't call me Shirley. For those of you who have been following this blog for a long time, you may have read the posts on Fabric … Continue reading Loadtesting Microsoft Fabric, part II
"tap tap tap". Your attention please, we're going to orchestrate our ETL/ELT process! Yes, it's time to unleash your inner Herbert von Karajan and make sure your BI orchestra performs at its best. Why? Well, unless you enjoy waking up every night to start your Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) process and manually running each process to do … Continue reading DP-700 training: Orchestration
I'm guessing you've seen posts, blogs and social media activity in the last year on both Fabric SQL databases and rumours around SQL Server 2025. Today, Microsoft announced that both of these are Generally Available (GA). This means it's now fully supported by Microsoft. You can read all about this, and more, in the Ignite … Continue reading Ignite announced SQL Server 2025 and Fabric SQL GA
Some of you might recognise database projects from either Synapse Analytics or SQL Server. Yay for the latter ;). A long story, very short, database projects are a way to develop and deploy your databases using a CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Development) approach. For each database, the code you've written is saved in a specific project … Continue reading DP-700 training: implement database projects
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