Category: General Post
Microsoft Ignite – Announcements – databases in Microsoft Fabric
Microsoft Ignite came to an end and no need to say that a lot of great announcements have been shared. For me, the biggest announcement was, as the title of this post already mentions, the public preview of databases in Microsoft Fabric. Because I had the pleasure of learning about the brand-new functionality firsthand, I […]
New content coming soon!
2024 has been challenging, a very busy speaking schedule, learning new things, combined with some health challenges made me unable to keep my data blog up-to-date with frequent blog posts or data recipes as I like to call them. I hope to start publishing new content starting in July 2024. Keep you posted!
Database Projects – Committed to the wrong branch, now what?
In the past couple of months, I’ve been doing a lot of different things at the same time. Because of that, it is no exception that I have quite some branches for my Database Projects that I’m working on simultaneously. Because of this, another issue arises as well, it happens now and then that I’m […]
What a year, 2023 review
We have had the first winter snowfall (at least 1 day), and days are getting shorter and colder. This reminds me that it’s time to review the past year. Last year, I concluded that I had reached a couple of professional milestones. I ramped up speaking engagements, finished my first blog post series, and met […]
First-time mentoring – New Stars of Data
No technical blog post this time. I want to stand still for a moment to something completely different. Last week, on Friday, October 27th, 2023 the New Stars of Data conference had its 7th run. If you are not familiar with New Stars of Data, this wonderful event is a conference organized by William Durkin […]
Episode 012 – Finding (Data) Friends
No new technical blog post for now, I’m currently enjoying some time off where I’m working on new content. A brand new session and some new blog posts as well. I had the pleasure to join Jess Pomfret (LinkedIn, Twitter) and Ben Weissman (LinkedIn, Twitter) during an episode of Finding (Data) Friends. For the people […]
Stop SSIS Package Execution
Problem Statement Today, I was working on a SSIS Package that executes a Python script for every day I want to retrieve the data. Since I was reloading data for a couple of months in my development environment, the process took quite some time. I developed my package in Visual Studio 2019 and deployed my […]
SQLBits 2023 – My experience
In the past, I have been hearing a lot of stories about SQLBits. And, this year, I finally was able to experience it myself. Thanks to my current employer, I was allowed to attend SQLBits. I attended 2 training days and 3 conference days, which basically is the full conference. I can tell, it is […]
Speaking @ dataMinds User Group
I’m happy to share that I will be delivering my session about “Improving Team Collaboration using Database Projects & Azure DevOps” at the dataMinds User Group. During this session, I will first be explaining what went wrong in the past for me, during the main part of the session, I will be showing how to […]
What a year, 2022 review
Well, it’s that time of the year, days are getting shorter, it’s pretty cold outside and that typically is the time for me to get cosy on the sofa and review the year. This year was a special one, I was able to achieve a couple of awesome milestones in my professional career During the […]