Owning my own business: Lessons learned from year five

If I had to put a theme on 2022, it would probably be labelled as a “year of recovery”. My wife and I both felt the whiplash from the prior year’s challenges, and we came away from our planning getaway agreeing that we should not put too much pressure on ourselves in the coming year.…

The hidden costs of Azure Data Factory’s managed virtual network

When Azure Data Factory (ADF) released the managed virtual network feature for Azure integration runtimes, it seemed like a no-brainer at first. Who wouldn’t want to isolate their ETL traffic without the need to manage the network infrastructure? A recent migration project made me look much closer look at this feature, and the cost implications…

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Hi, I’m Martin. I like to help people make sense of their data, using Microsoft technologies. This blog is my attempt at giving back to our awesome community, from which I have received so much. Hope you find it worth reading!

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