I was teaching a class and during an interesting discussing an attendee told me that views with a filter took a long time to produce results, even if the result set itself was quite small. I wanted to test this out for myself to see what was happening. I'll take you along this short journey … Continue reading View with a where clause
In my previous blogs, I've written about Fabric and all the cool things it can do. Thing is, my load tests were based on files. Either CSV or Delta. But in reality, a lot of data comes from an on-premises database server. In reality, you might connect to a SQL 2008 instance or maybe even … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric, connect to your on-premises SQL Server
In my previous four blogposts, I've shared some first impressions and small things I discovered since the preview release. Again, the preview release. New features are added, bugs are fixed and additions are released. When I asked if there's a GA release date, there was no answer. And I can guess why, it's hard to … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric, impact on my daily work
When Fabric released, there was a lot of noise around it. Many people have written blogs, created YouTube video's and all kinds of other interesting things to share the love of this new tooling. Well, new? Especially when you look at Fabric data warehouse, it's more of an iteration over Synapse Analytics Serverless Pools. As … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric, Data Warehouse first impressions
Last year I had the honour of speaking in both Gothenburg and Oslo, this year Stockholm got added to this wonderful list of Scandinavian countries. The event is headed by Daniel Hutmacher, his wife Ewa Hutmacher and Alexander Arvidsson. Three people who really care for the event and everyone in it. And this shows in … Continue reading Speaking experiences at Data Saturday Stockholm
This month, Gethyn Ellis (T | L | B) invites us to write about the best career advice ever received. To be honest, I've got two that are linked together in a way. First When I was 22, graduated and out of a job, a distant uncle suggested me to look into IT. His son … Continue reading T-SQL Tuesday #163 – What is the best piece of Career Advice you ever received
Whilst working on a blogpost on Fabric Data Warehouse, I started wondering if I could work around the SQL web interface and connect to my OneLake with SSMS and/or ADS. As it turns out, you can! Find the connection-string To be honest, this was the hardest part as the connection-string is somewhat hidden. In your … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric, connect SQL Server Management Studio, Azure Data Studio or Windows Explorer to your OneLake
In my previous blog, I wrote about some first impression working with Fabric and mostly following the Lakehouse tutorial provided by Microsoft. Well structured as this one may be, the sizes are not like the sizes I'm seeing in the wild. So I decided to give Fabric a bit more of a challenge by letting … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric, fooling around with TPC-H data
This Week, Microsoft released the new Fabric resource on Azure. It's been hard to miss as many MVP's were tweeting, Mastodoning and sending messages on LinkedIn that Build should not be missed this year. So yeah, it was clear something huge was going to happen. When the announcement came, I was outside. My kid had … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric, first impressions
This month, I hosted the Tsql2sday where I asked you to write about the most funny things you did with T-Sql. I'll happily admit it was a bit of a cheesy subject but you came out in numbers to write! Thanks for that. Before I dive into the blogs I found, send me a message … Continue reading Tsql2sday #161, the writeup
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