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.
When you start using SSMS with GitHub Copilot, there is no default set of instructions in place. The agent will just sort of do what it thinks is best. But you can make sure the agent has more knowledge of your local environment (yes, it can be a cloud database as well), how it should … Continue reading SSMS 22.6: Custom Copilot instructions
Welcome to another instalment in the DP-700 learn series. This time we're going to talk about Apache Airflow settings. It's a little bit of a misnomer in the header, maybe, but we have to follow the titles Microsoft offers in the official curriculum. Now, before we dig into the fun techy stuff, let's familiarise ourselves … Continue reading DP-700 training: Configure Dataflow Gen2 workspace settings (Apache Airflow)
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
A lot of you may probably know that I like the GitHub Copilot sidecar chat in SSMS, and that it can really help develop code faster. Even though you have to be aware of how the integration now handles your prompts, it remains a great help to quickly generate code. But did you know that … Continue reading SSMS 22.5 and Copilot: generate code in the query window
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
In a previous blog, I wrote about processing XML and that it's actually JSON after the first pass. So far, so good. But then I found out that not all data was returned. That's weird because it's really there. So, what's happening here? Follow me, and let's find out! The previous blog had this JSON … Continue reading Microsoft Realtime Intelligence: the array that wasn’t
I've been working for quite some time on a fun solution in Fabric Realtime Intelligence. We're processing XML files into a structured table. As you're probably aware, XML has its own... well, let's be nice and call them challenges. One thing I ran into was that an element contained several other elements. Usually, you'll see … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric Realtime Intelligence: Processing XML, or are you?
Let's be honest, you thought of doing this yourself. Connecting two tools that seem to serve very different purposes. But, as I had a day to fool around, I thought to myself, let's see if I can make this work. In the previous blog post on MCP Local, I described how to run your MCP … Continue reading SQL MCP: Local to Fabric Lakehouse
In the previous blog posts, I've written about installing MCP and how it works, followed by how to use it with an Azure SQL Database through an Azure Container Instance and Microsoft Foundry. But, you can also use your favourite local database (SQL Server ;)) and Visual Studio Code. The reason Visual Studio Code is … Continue reading SQL and MCP, the local edition
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