Today I was having a nice discussion with some colleagues about Fabric and pricing/licensing came up. I mentioned an F2 is only around €250 a month, but a colleague said “no no, it’s over €300”. A bit confused, I pulled up the sizing table of my Fabric capacity in Azure, which looks like this: Similarly, […]
Book Review – Deciphering Data Architectures
I recently purchased and read the book Deciphering Data Architectures – Choosing Between a Modern Data Warehouse, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse, and Data Mesh by James Serra. James – who works for Microsoft since quite some time now – has an interesting blog on data architecture and data warehousing, and I was really looking forward […]
Fabulous Stuff in Fabric – Part 5: Folders in Workspaces
A while ago I had a little blog post series about cool stuff in Snowflake. I’m doing a similar series now, but this time for Microsoft Fabric. I’m not going to cover the basics of Fabric, hundreds of bloggers have already done that. I’m going to cover little bits & pieces that I find interesting, that […]
Speaking at dataMinds Saturday & Techorama 2024
I have the pleasure to announce I’ll be presenting at two conferences this spring. The first one is at dataMinds Saturday 2024 (back in-person!): Yes, it’s a long abstract 🙂 You can register for this free event here. The other session is at Techorama Belgium 2024 where I’ll present about Microsoft Fabric: Tickets for the […]
Change Notebook Spark Session Time-Out in Microsoft Fabric
You might know the feeling: you’re writing code in a Notebook in Microsoft Fabric and suddenly you have to leave your workstation for a while. Someone ran the doorbell (you’re working from home and you get some parcels delivered), or you took a coffee break with some colleagues. When you return to your notebook, the […]
How to Retrieve all the Spark Session Configuration Variables in Microsoft Fabric
I was trying some stuff out in a notebook on top of a Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse. I was wondering what some of the default values are of the configuration variables, and if there’s an easy way to retrieve them all. Luckily there is. In the code, I’m using Scala because it has a nice GetAll() […]
#TSQL2sday 171 – Describe the Most Recent Issue You Closed
It’s #TSQL2sday time! This month’s invitation has been sent out by Brent Ozar and he asks us to describe the most recent issue – or the last ticket – we closed. In my case, I actually blogged about it in this blog post: Azure Function App doesn’t retrieve most recent secret value from Azure Key […]
Fabulous Stuff in Fabric – Part 4: The Office365 Outlook Activity
A while ago I had a little blog post series about cool stuff in Snowflake. I’m doing a similar series now, but this time for Microsoft Fabric. I’m not going to cover the basics of Fabric, hundreds of bloggers have already done that. I’m going to cover little bits & pieces that I find interesting, that […]
Azure Function App doesn’t retrieve most recent secret value from Azure Key Vault
Quite a long title for quite an annoying issue. Let me explain the set-up first: I have pipelines running in Azure Data Factory and I want to send e-mails with customized messages when something goes wrong (this means the standard alerting of ADF doesn’t cut it). ADF doesn’t have a built-in activity for sending e-mails […]
Fabulous Stuff in Fabric – Part 3: Shortcuts
A while ago I had a little blog post series about cool stuff in Snowflake. I’m doing a similar series now, but this time for Microsoft Fabric. I’m not going to cover the basics of Fabric, hundreds of bloggers have already done that. I’m going to cover little bits & pieces that I find interesting, that […]