Solving an issue with Always Encrypted

A short blog on how to get Always Encrypted to work in your app and in the ODBC connection.

Azure Infrastructure as Code

If you've been working with Azure for more than a few months, you'll find that deploying resources with the portal is a tedious, time consuming and, at times, a frustrating excercise. It's the best starting point you can get, because the portal will show you a lot of options and offers a easy learning curve. … Continue reading Azure Infrastructure as Code →

Learning ADF Part 5

Reading data from an API into parquet files with @AzDataFactory #azure

Monitoring Azure SQL with Zabbix

My first long-read about monitoring your Azure SQL DB with Zabbix. And a little bonus with Linux.

Learning ADF part 4

Creating a Pipeline in @azDataFactory with a @AzureSQLDB with CDC enabled as source and a tumbling window. #AzureDataFactory #Azure

Learning ADF part 3

Learning ADF part 3. Created my first dynamic pipeline in @AzDataFactory #AzureDataFactory #learning #sharing #Azure

Learning ADF part 2

Moving data In part one of this series, I've managed to transfer my data from an on-premises SQL Server to an Azure SQL DB. This makes life somewhat easier for the next steps. The Azure SQL DB will play the role of my main production server. The one that will serve as source for my … Continue reading Learning ADF part 2 →

Learning ADF part 1

I'm learning ADF. I know the basics of what it does, but I'm in no way really knowing of what to do. In this blog series I'll try and record the steps I've followed to get to grips with basics and maybe more. Transferring your data from on premises to Azure I'm assuming you've got … Continue reading Learning ADF part 1 →

T-SQL Tuesday #139: The data world is hybrid

This month, Ben Weissman (b|t) invites us to write about the experiences in the hybrid data world and to tell where we are in our journey. To start with the latter, I'm only just beginning the journey. Most of our clients are running on-premises or are thinking about moving to the cloud. But the first … Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday #139: The data world is hybrid →