To work with an Azure Data Platform efficiently there is many tools that one should be aware of. However, installing them and keeping them current is a tedious job. In this post, I will describe which tools are needed for developer of a standard data platform on Azure with a focus on Data Warehousing. Moreover, I will explain how to install and keep everything updated with Chocolatey.

On Azure most data services offer a firewall. Unfortunately, at the moment the details of those firewalls differ. As soon as a firewall is switched on for any storage service (e.g. Azure Data Lake Gen2, Azure Synapse, Azure Key Vault), Azure Data Factory cannot access the resources by default anymore and must be configured accordingly.

In this blog post, I want to demonstrate how to demonstrate how to connect ADF and Synapse pretty securely without going with a full Managed VNet Runtime of ADF which would incur extra cost.

Yesterday Microsoft has announced and made available a new type of ingestion. It is named the metadata-driven copy task. With this new task, one can within minutes create a pipeline that loads data from a wide variety of data sources into a many of the ADF supported data sources.

Hello, my name is Felix Möller. I want to start blogging and publish the learnings I have as an Consultant on the Azure Data Platform. In my daily life I work at avanade, a very cool company, that aims to be the leading innovator for Microsoft technologies.

Though in this blog, I express my pers...

The WHO has published a success story about our project. The world health data hub is an Azure Data Platform. Leveraging Synapse, Azure ML and Azure Data Factory teams can work with data they ingest and share in an Azure Data Lake gen2.