The title of this blog post is a bit misleading, because what we actually want to do is to install the SSIS development functionality in Visual Studio 2022. SSAS and SSRS have been available for some time now in VS 2022, but the extension for SSIS has only just been released in preview. For those […]
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Read data from Azure Synapse Serverless SQL Pools with Azure Data Factory
We have some data we can query using the serverless SQL pools in Azure Synapse Analytics. For this blog post, I’m querying data that is stored in Azure Cosmos DB. Read the blog post How to Store Normalized SQL Server Data into Azure Cosmos DB to learn more about how that data got there. Suppose […]
How to Store Normalized SQL Server Data into Azure Cosmos DB
Recently I got a hold of my Untappd data. For those who don’t know the app, it’s a rating app for beers. You can check-in a beer each time you drink one (by scanning the barcode for example), and then rate it, assign flavors et cetera. I did a GDPR request to get all my […]
Session Materials – PASS Data Community Summit and Cloudbrew
You can find the slides and demo scripts for my sessions at Cloudbrew (Snowflake) and PASS Data Community Summit (Migrate SSIS skills to ADF) in my Github repo. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them in the comments.
How to Install SQL Server 2022
SQL Server 2022 has been released! In this blog post, I’ll walk you through how you can install the latest version of SQL Server on your machine. I’ll be using the developer edition of SQL Server 2022, which can be downloaded here. The download link will only download a small 4MB file. Opening this file […]
Granular Cost Management for Azure Data Factory
A new feature has been launched that allows you to have more granular control over the execution costs of your pipelines. By enabling the feature, you have a cost overview per pipeline in your cost analysis in the Azure portal and in your billing report. This is great news if you want to figure out […]
Session Materials for dataMinds Connect 2022
You can find the slides and the demo scripts (.sql files) in my Github repo. You can use the materials as you like, attribution would be nice 🙂
How to Calculate Compound Rate in Power BI
Recently I had an interesting use case where I had to a compound calculation in Power BI. You can compound an interest rate for example, where you get a certain rate on your savings. Let’s say 1% (which is at the time of writing ridiculously high, but bear with me). After 1 year, you get […]
Power BI Desktop overwrites Authentication Settings in Similar Connections
Yesterday I was facing an annoying issue. I have two Power BI datasets. Both connect to the same Azure SQL database, but with different SQL users (they have both different permissions on the data in the database). This can be a use case for example where you have data for multiple clients inside one single […]
Speaking Engagements for Fall 2022
The summer holiday is almost over, and this means conference season will be back in full swing again. I’ll be speaking at a couple of events in the second half of this year: Data Bash. A new free virtual conference focusing on the German-speaking nations in Europe. And on data of course. There are sessions […]