Cloud Data Driven User Group 2025 – Slides & Scripts
The slidedeck and the SQL scripts for the session Indexing for Dummies can be found on Github.
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2025-09-25
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Koen Verbeeck
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How to Install SQL Server 2025 RC0 on an Azure VM
I wanted to try out the new JSON index which is for the moment only available in the SQL Server 2025 preview version. I know, it’s not even available...
2025-09-24 (first published: 2025-09-05)
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Retro Data 2025 – Slidedeck
You can find the slides of my session on the €100 DWH in Azure on Github.
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2025-09-20
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Secure Logic Apps with OAuth Authorization
I’ve used Logic Apps a couple of times over the past years for simple workflows, like sending an email (still not supported in ADF, booooo), reading a SharePoint List...
2025-09-17
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Free Online Sessions – Building the €100 DWH and Indexing for Dummies
I’m giving two online sessions soon on virtual events that are free to attend. The first one is at Retro Data (20th of September), a new virtual conference focusing...
2025-09-12 (first published: 2025-09-11)
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Power BI dataflow Gen1 needs Gateway to connect to Azure SQL DB
I’m in the progress of migrating some legacy stuff at a client, and in their Power BI environment there are still quite some Power BI dataflows Gen1. I had...
2025-09-05 (first published: 2025-08-20)
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Workspace Identity Authentication for your Power BI Semantic Models in Microsoft Fabric
This article shows how you can easily create connections in your Power BI workspace that use Identity Authentication to connect to your data.
2025-09-05
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How to Access and Use Azure Key Vault Secrets in an Azure Devops Pipeline
When you run a CI/CD pipeline, you often need confidential values like passwords, authentication tokens, service principal secrets etc. when you want to deploy a certain artefact. You don’t want to store those secrets directly in your pipelines as this might pose a considerable security leak. Instead, you either store them as secret variables, or […]
2025-09-02 (first published: 2025-08-04)
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Bad Request Error when Running PowerShell Command in Azure Devops
I needed to run a PowerShell cmdlet in an Azure Devops pipeline. The cmdlet in question was New-AzRoleAssignment, but the cmdlet itself isn’t important. What is important is that...
2025-07-09
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Parameterize Connections in Microsoft Fabric Data Factory using Variable Libraries
Building pipelines in Microsoft Fabric can be complicated, and it's easy to write code that is hard to maintain. Using parameters in your connections helps to build pipelines that are easily configured.
2025-07-04 (first published: 2025-06-02)
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Programmatically Retrieving MLV Lineage and Refresh Times
Materialized lake views (MLVs) in Microsoft Fabric are an effective way to implement medallion...
Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop
By Steve Jones
I don’t have SQL Server installed on my laptop. In an effort to keep...
Question of the Day
Increase Deadlock Detection
How can I alter the deadlock detection interval to 2 seconds instead of 5 seconds on my SQL Server 2025 instance?
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