Speaking at Data Community Austria Day 2023
Let me start by wishing everyone the best for the year 2023! We’re going to kick off the new year with a virtual conference: the Data Community Austria Day...
2023-01-09
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Koen Verbeeck
Book Review – Designing Data-Intensive Applications
The book Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems by Martin Kleppmann was recommended to me by a colleague. The author has worked at companies...
2023-01-09 (first published: 2022-12-29)
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How to Specify the Format of the Request Body of an Azure Function
This is a bit of a niche blog post, because you don’t actually need this to make your Azure Function work :). When you create a new HTTP-triggered Azure...
2023-01-02 (first published: 2022-12-16)
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Book Review – SQL Server Query Tuning and Optimization (2nd Edition)
The nice people from Packt Publishing sent me a digital copy of Benjamin Nevarez new book to review: SQL Server Query Tuning and Optimization – Optimize Microsoft SQL Server...
2022-12-26 (first published: 2022-12-02)
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User Group Meeting – Migrate your SSIS skills to ADF & More
This Monday (the 5th of December 2022), my employer AE hosts a user group meeting for dataminds. There will be two sessions: It’ll be a very interesting evening, and...
2022-11-30
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How to Install Integration Services 2022
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...
2022-12-12 (first published: 2022-11-25)
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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...
2022-12-09 (first published: 2022-11-23)
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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...
2022-12-05 (first published: 2022-11-21)
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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...
2022-11-19
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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...
2022-11-28 (first published: 2022-11-17)
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Blogs
Getting Started with the MSSQL AI Agent in VS Code
By Steve Jones
Recently I was working in VS Code and I saw a walkthrough for the...
Summer Speaking Summary 2025
By alevyinroc
In the blink of an eye, summer has passed. I don’t know about you,...
From Chaos to Clarity: How Microsoft Purview Streamlines Data Governance
By Chris Yates
In today’s digital landscape, data is both a strategic asset and a potential liability....
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Change Tracking Data Retention Options
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Change Tracking Data Retention Options
If I am running this code:
ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks2017 SET CHANGE_TRACKING = ON (CHANGE_RETENTION=4 xxx);What are the possible choices for xxx? See possible answers