Last month, my company got me a new laptop. I have very little choice in which one I get, and I have to reinstall a lot of software. So, what to do next? Option one: download and install This is something I see a lot of people do: make a list of the software they … Continue reading Chocolatey, and how to quickly set up your new laptop
In a previous blog, I wrote about processing XML and that it's actually JSON after the first pass. So far, so good. But then I found out that not all data was returned. That's weird because it's really there. So, what's happening here? Follow me, and let's find out! The previous blog had this JSON … Continue reading Microsoft Realtime Intelligence: the array that wasn’t
I've been working for quite some time on a fun solution in Fabric Realtime Intelligence. We're processing XML files into a structured table. As you're probably aware, XML has its own... well, let's be nice and call them challenges. One thing I ran into was that an element contained several other elements. Usually, you'll see … Continue reading Microsoft Fabric Realtime Intelligence: Processing XML, or are you?
Let's be honest, you thought of doing this yourself. Connecting two tools that seem to serve very different purposes. But, as I had a day to fool around, I thought to myself, let's see if I can make this work. In the previous blog post on MCP Local, I described how to run your MCP … Continue reading SQL MCP: Local to Fabric Lakehouse
In the previous blog posts, I've written about installing MCP and how it works, followed by how to use it with an Azure SQL Database through an Azure Container Instance and Microsoft Foundry. But, you can also use your favourite local database (SQL Server ;)) and Visual Studio Code. The reason Visual Studio Code is … Continue reading SQL and MCP, the local edition
In part one, I covered the basics of your Data API Builder setup. Now, it's time to get into the real stuff :). For the demo, I'm using the Stack Overflow 2013 database on an Azure SQL General Purpose Serverless 8-core database. It's not a very large dataset (making it less expensive to host on … Continue reading SQL and MCP, Azure SQL Edition
This three-part series of blog posts will take you along my first experiments, trials and errors using the MCP Service for SQL. This first blog will focus on the technology behind it; part 2 will focus on Azure SQL options; and the last part will dig a bit deeper into running this on your local … Continue reading SQL, Azure SQL and MCP, the Introduction
"tap tap tap". Your attention please, we're going to orchestrate our ETL/ELT process! Yes, it's time to unleash your inner Herbert von Karajan and make sure your BI orchestra performs at its best. Why? Well, unless you enjoy waking up every night to start your Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) process and manually running each process to do … Continue reading DP-700 training: Orchestration
A few minutes ago, I came across a post on LinkedIn by Erin Stellato, highlighting the post from Makena Barickman on the release of SSMS 22, preview 3. If you've been following my blogs, you've read that I'm a keen follower of the latest editions of SSMS, especially now that Copilot is integrated. From very … Continue reading Exploring SSMS 22 Preview 3: New GitHub Copilot Features
Some of you might recognise database projects from either Synapse Analytics or SQL Server. Yay for the latter ;). A long story, very short, database projects are a way to develop and deploy your databases using a CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Development) approach. For each database, the code you've written is saved in a specific project … Continue reading DP-700 training: implement database projects
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