Speaking at Data Saturday Oslo

I'm honoured to tell you that I'll be speaking in Oslo this year! I've seen this wonderful city on TV and travelled past it on my way to Hamar for a number of speedskating events. This will be the first time I'll get to visit the city itself. The agenda is brimming with excellent sessions … Continue reading Speaking at Data Saturday Oslo

Connect your on-premises SSMS to Azure SQL DB over a VPN

Now that's a title! Here's the problem I've ran into. Setup Customer has an Azure environment with an Azure SQL Server database that can be reached through a private endpoint. There's a VPN in place to connect on-premises networks with the Azure VNet and the private endpoint is in one of the subnets, the VPN … Continue reading Connect your on-premises SSMS to Azure SQL DB over a VPN

Speaking at dataMinds Connect 2022!

I'm honoured to tell you that this year, I'm giving a session at the 15th edition of dataMinds Connect. I visited the event last year at the Lamot venue in Mechelen and had a blast. So many good people there. The agenda is brimming with excellent sessions and it's really hard to pick. If you … Continue reading Speaking at dataMinds Connect 2022!

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.

Splitting strings

Splittings string with @SQLServer. #Microsoft #sqlserver #tsql #zekerweten

Clustered Columnstore performance with deletes and updates

One way that might speed up you inserts and deletes on Clustered Columnstores. @Microsoft @SQLServer @AzureSQL.

2021 in review, 2022 in preview

2021 in review. Thank you all! @azure @axiansNL @Azure_Synapse @AzDataFactory @Microsoft #zekerweten #MCT

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

Computed columns acting weird

A fun little problem having to do with calculated columns in a join.