Microsoft Azure

All the different ways to authenticate to Azure SQL, Synapse, and Fabric

In this post I’ll go over all the details on acquiring access tokens to authenticate to any Microsoft SQL engine, …

Is Microsoft Fabric just a rebranding?

It’s a question I see popping up every now and then. Is Microsoft Fabric just a rebranding of existing Azure …

Migrating Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL to Microsoft Fabric

If all those posts about Microsoft Fabric have made you excited, you might want to consider it as your next data …

Microsoft Fabric's Auto Discovery: a closer look

In previous posts , I dug deeper into Microsoft Fabric’s SQL-based features and we even explored OneLake using …

Exploring OneLake with Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer

Recap: OneLake & Delta Lake One of the coolest things about Microsoft Fabric is that it nicely decouples storage and …

Filling the gaps in your code with the Terraform azapi provider for Azure

The cloud is just someone else’s computer and to manage that we prefer to use Infrastructure as Code (IaC). …

Some interesting takeaways from this year's Techorama

Last week was a busy week for fans of the Microsoft technology stack like myself. Microsoft hosted its yearly developer …

Building & deploying Azure self-service data platforms for healthcare

I hosted this session of AZUG on Kubernetes and data platforms on Azure at the dataroots office in Leuven and gave a …

Installing the Azure Event Hubs Python SDK on Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit

Since we’re going through some heat waves in Europe, I thought it might be interesting to start measuring the …

Deploy a data lake on Azure in less than an hour

This talk was given on multiple occasions: During a lunch webinar at dataroots . At Data Science Leuven (event details …

Serverless on Azure @ Tech Dive September 2019

On September 26th, 2019, I organized the RMDY Tech Dive in Edegem. This was a public event with several topics about …