Send mails with Azure Elastic Database Jobs
The DatabaseMail feature in SQL Server and Managed Instance is widely used by many professionals. But what if you want similar functionality in Azure SQL Database? There are options, but it requires a bit of tinkering. Tinkering that we gladly explain in this blog. The alternative So, you want to create something in Azure […]
Sorting matrices in Power BI
Recently I worked on a Power BI project for a client. They had a SharePoint site where they regularly published articles and wanted to pour view data into a report to track which pieces of content were performing well. One of their requests – sorting the matrices by different values – for the Power BI […]
The Databricks lifecycle and how it impacts your maintenance
Since its announcement as a first-party service on Microsoft Azure at the end of 2017, Databricks has seen a remarkable growth in usage. However, the service and its success were around long before Microsoft came into play. Going by the fact that you are reading this blog at this very moment, I’ll assume that you […]
Defining your Azure infrastructure as code with Bicep
The first thing that comes to mind when you think of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) in Azure is Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates. After all, for every service – regardless of how you deploy it – an ARM template is created in the background. However, when you think of ARM, you probably also think of JSON files […]
How to send emails with an SMTP server in Azure Databricks
A client asked if we could provide a simple form of monitoring on a part of a provided solution. The data platform we developed for them ingested a source that was afterwards used by a business team and our client’s clients. For this particular source, our client asked us to send a simple email with […]
XML fun on Azure SQL
For a client project I was recently asked how to efficiently handle translations in SQL Server. As, in this particular case, the client application was very proficient in processing XML data I chose in cooperation with the development team to use XML as the datatype to handle this specific case. While XML has been suitable […]
Kohera’s Modern Data Platform: Choosing the model – Pt.1
Kohera’s Modern Data platform does not come with a canned data model by default. This makes the framework extremely flexible to adapt to a variety of project workflows, but it also means during the Analysis phase we will need to think about how to structure the data before continuing. In the simplest case, you will […]
Should I use serverless for all my Azure SQL Databases?
When I first heard about the new serverless compute tier, I wondered if I could use it for all my Azure SQL databases to save my clients some money. (Spoiler alert, you can’t 🙂 ) But first things first, what the heck is serverless? Azure SQL Database serverless is a new compute tier made for […]
How to create a Time Table in Power BI in a few simple steps
In a previous blogpost, we already explained how to make a date table in Power BI with DAX. Besides the dates you can add extra properties for each date: year, month-names, weekday-names,… But what about hours and minutes? In this blog and video, we’ll show you how to create time tables in Power BI. I’m […]
De Tijdloze 2019: de follow-up
31 december was het zo ver, we zaten aan de radio gekluisterd om de Tijdloze op de voet te volgen. Op plaats 93 noteerden we onze eerste voltreffer en hoe dichter we bij de top 10 kwamen, hoe beter onze voorspelling (zie blogpost: De Tijdloze van StuBru: onze Power BI-voorspelling) . Negen van de tien […]
