Some months ago I switched to Microsoft Edge as my default web browser. I don’t know when it started, but out of a sudden the copy&paste of URLs out of Edge ended strange in the destination application. A new feature in Edge changed the format of copied URLs in a more “user-friendly” format. Which is nice, yes, .. but…
User-Friendly Formatting for copied URLs
Just in case you do not know how this user-friendly URL does look like:
User-friendly URL copy & paste
How to change it back to URL only
For my job, I often have to write documentations and other documents and in those I want to see the real URL. So I started to do a little research and there are several options to the back to the URL only:
Change the Paste mode in Word (Keep as Text only)
Change the default way, how Edge copies URL
This is my preferred way – change the default setting how MS Edge copies URLs. Short way: open Edge and enter edge://settings/shareCopyPaste into your address bar (or you open Edge settings and navigate to the Share, copy and paste section).
This opens the settings page for URL sharing. Choose the link option if you want the user-friendly information, choose the plain text version if you want the link only.
I hope you liked this tip – otherwise this post is another reference for future Wolfi 😉
Bob Ward demos (and Connor joined 🙂 the “it just gets faster without code changes” in SQL Server 2022 (Parameter sensitive plan optimization)
Bob and Connor discussing 🙂No code change required – only the compatibility level of the database is changed.. and the magic happens
More about the (Azure) SQL Family
The (Azure) SQL family
“Build once – deploy anywhere”
Azure Arc-enabled data services
Azure Cosmos DB
Announcement: Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra
Azure Synapse Link for SQL Server (2022+)
The Azure Synapse Link family is extended to SQL Server (2022+) and will be available in the future. Synapse Link is more than “just a linked server” -> Synapse Link publishes changes to Synapse and can then be used for analytics in Power BI.
Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse
It’s GA. Do some of you remember the Export to DataLake functionality? yes.. Synapse Link for Dataverse is definitely MORE than that…
From Dataverse to Azure Synapse to your the reporting tool of your choice.
Data is pushed from Dataverse to the landing part in Azure Synapse. A Spark database (containing external table definitions to the linked tables) is created. You can use this tables in either Spark or SQL Serverless (using the shared metadata approach) ..
Intelligence Platform
Arun takes over the stage
Empower every individual / every team / every organization
Power BI + Teams integration
Power BI + Excel integration
Power BI Goals
The Complete Analytics Fabric => Power BI and Synapse
Announcements for Power BI
Patrick talks about Hybrid Tables and Automatic Aggregations.
Analyze the effects of Automatic AggregationsHybrid Tables – Import for historical data + Direct Query for the most up-to-date data.
Data Lineage is one of the key features required for a good understanding of your data landscape. Btw. if you want to learn more about data lineage, g2.com has a very good introduction: https://learn.g2.com/data-lineage
This week is Microsoft Ignite 2021 week – virtual again! Three days full of content, mostly pre-recorded sessions and many announcements of new features.
Microsoft published – like for some other conferences in the past – a Book of News, which contains an overview about the features, products and options announced during the conference.
Those of you that know me, maybe 🙂 know my favorite topics – Azure Data, Power BI and Azure Purview. If you have a look at the Book of News, the section for Azure Data is not that long, BUT…
The section of Azure Data announcements at Microsoft Ignite 2021
The Azure Synapse team announced some features around a third, new type of analytic pools – Data Explorer pools. With this type of analytics runtime, we are able to query log and telemetry data.
Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse is now GA. The concept of Synapse Link already an ETL-free extension of your analytic workspace into/ Cosmos DB and now is extended to support Dataverse. With this connection, selected tables out of a Dataverse database are replicated into a Synapse Workspace and are there exposed in a Spark database (which is – through shared metadata – accessible by the SQL Serverless runtime).
One of my overall highlights – Database templates – does not sound really interesting at the beginning. BUT – What I found out so far and if I understood it correctly, these database templates allow for a creation of a lake database based on data lake files. WITHOUT the need for coding – a UI-based editor is included in the first preview version. I am very curious to find out more about these lake databases.
Delta Lake support is now GA. The functionality of read-access to delta lake files through the SQL Serverless pool was already available in preview for some time, now this functionality got into GA state.
As you might have noticed, Azure Purview is one of my newest friends in Azure Data town. During Ignite, the support for Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service), the Data Lake Data Asset Access Governance, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Integration with Azure Purview was announced.
What I really look forward to test is the Data Asset Access Governance for Data Lake storages. Imagine a world that allows you to define permission on a central place and those permissions are brought to a storage account / system of your choice..
Power BI and Teams are getting better together – the Power BI app for Teams is now GA and allows a deep integration of your Power BI environment directly in your teams application.
Power BI Premium Gen2 is now GA – allowing for a more enterprise grade and scalable analytics.
The concept of Hybrid tables allows a dynamic combination of in-memory caches of historical data combined with real-time data queried in DirectQuery mode.
Already featured in the Azure Purview launch event, the Power BI integration is now GA, allowing for a deeper integration and metadata scanning of your Power BI workspaces, datasets, reports and even dataset structures.
Although the Book of News section is not that impressive, a closer look at the new feature really makes me look forward to a bright future of Azure Data. One of my highlights are the announced Database templates and Lake database in Azure Synapse…
Last week was a special one – I went to a conference, a real conference. 🙂
DirectionsEMEA 2021 took place at Milan from Wednesday 27th to Friday 29th October. It was a kind of unusual conference for me – No data focus, no majority of Azure data or Power BI sessions – it was a conference about Business Central (Dynamics). AND – I learned a lot. For me, now it is clearer what Business Central is capable of, how to get data into Business Central and how to get data out of BC to perform data analysis upon that data.
Right after the registration – Full mask mode during the conference
My Sessions: Power BI, Azure Synapse, PowerPlatform Dataflows
I had the chance to present two sessions about data anyway.
T-10 minutes before the first sessionT-15 min before the PowerPlatform dataflows session
The first session was about the relationship of Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI. During this session I compared the two tools and how they can be used in the flow of data – from the datasource to data visualization.
Session 1 – Power BI and Azure Synapse – better together?
The second session was about PowerPlatform dataflows. I described the concept of dataflows, why they are needed and why they have been introduced. Next I compared the possibilities of Power BI dataflows versus PowerPlatform dataflows.
Session 2 – What are the possibilities of PowerPlatform dataflows?
What I really liked at the conference was the corona-save health procedures – temperature check plus check of the “green pass” everytime you entered the conference center. Plus mandatory wearing a mask anytime within a building..
Sie geh̦ren zum Herbst dazu Рdie SQLDays der PPEDV in Erding. Traditionell in der Stadthalle in Erding und heuer auch endlich wieder in-person oder genauer gesagt als hybride Veranstaltung.
Ein Teil der Teilnehmer war direkt vor Ort dabei und der Rest konnte per Teams-Meeting bei den Sessions dabei sein.
Nach der 3G Kontrolle am Eingang stand dann dem Vortragsvergnügen (hoffe ich mal) nichts mehr im Wege.
Ich war heuer mit meinen aktuellen Lieblingsthemen unterwegs
Today, the Azure Data Governance event happened. As you might have noticed, I’ve focused on Azure Purview in the last few months and I really looked forward to this event..
So what happened? What was announced?
Rohan Kumar started the event and talked about the importance of data in enterprises and how Data Governance can help to increase the value of data.
Purview is GA (General Available)
I kind of expected it – Azure Purview is General Available as of today.
Afterwards, Mike Flasko took over and went into the more detailed part of the presentation focusing on the Azure Purview platform
Purview Demo
The Azure Purview demo was presented by Evangeline White from the Azure Data Governance team. She showed some interesting stuff like – SQL stored procedure support and the enhanced metadata lineage extraction for Power BI.
Feature summary
The feature overview concluded the event:
But what about the future of Azure Purview / Azure Data Governance?
There was one slide shown, that included some interesting roadmap steps ahead of us..
And hey Wolfi – What about the costs?
Well, the discussion of Purview costs is a long story (blog post) but the pricing page is now updated and there is still some time for you to test it for free (until Nov 1st, 2021)
Yesterday, Andy Cutler (t) asked me on twitter, if the move of a registered source between collections is possible.
Andys question
My first answer was, yes sure… And I also included a screenshot from one of my Purview accounts (which – this will be important in the following – is a legacy Purview account).
Move a source between collections in Azure Purview (legacy Purview account)
But – tech isn’t tech without some differentiation between versions and available options 😉
The new Purview collection management (mentioned here) introduced in August 2021 allows for a finer granular permission definition and other things, but some of the features are still missing: like the move and delete of sources in the data map.
If you are using a new (created after August 18th, 2021) Purview account, the move of sources between collections is not possible (as of today, 2021-09-16)
Sorry @Andy – we’ll hopefully do not have to wait tooo long for the move feature to be available in new Purview accounts.
I would like to say – Happy source-moving.. but we’ll have to wait some time for that,
I got a question from a customer this week, that Azure Purview does not list the Assets classified in the scan history anymore but classifications happen.
When I open the scan history list, the list of columns indeed does not contain the Assets classified column.
What is for sure available for a longer period in the UI – the Edit columns action is responsible for the missing columns. This dialog allows you to customize the display columns – et voila – the missing information is listed there.
I also spotted some (for me) new information pieces like Relationships ingested, … which I will for sure have a closer look in the future.
In my last Azure Purview Quickstart video (#3 – Create an Azure Purview Account – link), I’ve shown you how to create a new Azure Purview account.
And what pre-prepared demos have in common, well – it “just” works there 😉 BUT: there are some requirements that need to be configured beforehand, in order to create an Azure Purview Account.
Basically, problems during the creation process can be listed to:
Security / permissions
Missing Resource providers
Permissions required to create an Azure Purview Account
You need Azure Contributor or Owner role (or be an Administrator of the Azure subscription)
Missing Resource providers
Azure Purview requires the following resource providers to be registered in your Azure subscription. If you have not heard of Azure resource providers before, please have a look at the docs page.
Azure Purview requires the resources providers for
Microsoft.Purview
Microsoft.Storage
Microsoft.EventHub
to be activated in your subscription…
The validation error message looks similar to this one:
Validation failed with error: The template deployment ‘Microsoft.AzurePurviewGalleryPackage-datagov01’ is not valid according to the validation procedure. The tracking id is ‘xxxxxxxx’. See inner errors for details. Detailed error(s): 21005 – The resource providers Microsoft.Storage and Microsoft.EventHub and Microsoft.Purview are not registered for subscription xxxxxx. For improved Azure Policy validation on managed resources, we recommend to register Microsoft.PolicyInsights resource provider on your subscription.
The resource providers Microsoft.Storage and Microsoft.EventHub and Microsoft.Purview are not registered for subscription xxxx
Missing resource providers (Microsoft.Purview) for Purview Account
How to register missing resource providers?
First of all – you need administrative access to your Azure subscription to enable resource providers.
Open the Azure portal and head over to Subscriptions
Azure subscription list
Select the Resource providers menu entry and search for the three required ones (Microsoft.Purview, Microsoft.Storage, Microsoft.EventHub)
Resource provider menu in the subscription section
(1) Search for the resource provider name, select (2) the entry and (3) register / re-register it in your subscription.
Resource provider details page
Reminder: check for all three resource providers to be registered! 😉
With these configuration steps, you now should be able to create your Azure Purview account!
You are new to Azure Purview and want to learn more about this Azure DataGovernance service? I’ve started a Quickstart Azure Purview – Video Series and would like to invite you to the videos listed below. Feedback and discussion appreciated..
#1 What is Azure Purview?
#2 What is inside? Azure Purview building blocks
#3 – Create an Azure Purview Account (Azure Portal)
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