October 26, 2023

Dataweekender 6.5

I am happy to announce that I have been selected to speak at Data Weekender 6.5. Saturday, November 4 2023 at 11:30 in track 1 I will be presenting the session named Opening up your database by API. I hope to pack in a few new items I learned recentlty about this exiting product. Next to presenting, I will be present in Track 1 the whole day to assist the other speakers.

October 4, 2023

Create Free Azure DB

Just a few days ago I read in an that he announced that there was a free azure database available. I am a Dutch guy. I like free. And it does fit perfectly in my dataAPI Builder stuff I am doing. Next ot the fact that I am writing this article using Github and Hugo running on Azure Static Webapp. I think this all fits in/together some how. In fact, that LinkedIn post referers now to https://learn.

September 5, 2023

SQL Saturday Oslo

Last weekend it was The-day or D-Day for me. It was the first in person event where I am presenting. My wife and I flew to Oslo from Dusseldorf. That was a breeze, sure if you know that we had the intention to take the boat from Emden to Kristiansand. See this link why… For me and my wife it looked like it had to be. When investigating traveling options end of May, we should pay only 535 for a single boat trip.

August 11, 2023

A bad dress is a good rehearsal

ok. I have to admit. I was not in the understanding that my preview session of last week should mean that I would not have a good presentation. As you might have read in my previous post on my sort of bad hairday, I have survived and taken action. Yesterday evening the Final of my investigation on #DataAPIBuilder was going to finalize. Or not? At least, when Brian Bonk Ruelokke contacted me to do a presentation for Microsoft Fabric – DK: Overview | LinkedIn on something new, I accepted that challenge.

August 1, 2023

Doing a preview presentation going wrong

Last weekend I did not post any new content to my blog nor to my linkedin profile. Reason was that I was preparing myself for a preview presentation I had today. Also, it is silly season as they call it, and there were some work requirements I needed to look at. Next to that, I am also following classes on Microsoft Fabric. I want to be prepared in Oslo, where I am speaking at September 2nd.

July 22, 2023

Knitting Data API builder together and how I tested it

In my previous posts about #DataAPIbuilder I showed you how I created an environment for it. I used the Bikestores sample code which you can download from SQLServerTutorials. The source and explanation is here. I have installed that database in a VM on my desktop. That is running SQL2019 and the full stuff is downloaded from the Microsoft site. After that I configured my Visual Studio and tried to install the Nuget Package for DataApiBuilder.

July 16, 2023

Exploring APIs and using Views or Stored Procedures

API’s are usefull if you can read documentation over them, or if you can explore them. All decent API solutions deliver you something like a Swagger interface. Such an interface is helpfull if you want to find out which API is delivering you the data you want. Swagger is included in DataAPI Builder. You will find it under: HTTP http://localhost:5000/swagger/index.html HTTPS https://localhost:5001/swagger/index.html OPENAPI https://localhost:5001/api/openapi SWAGGER https://localhost:5001/swagger I encourage you NOT to use the HTTP one.

July 11, 2023

PascalCase Reading exercises for MicrosoftFabric

Camel C(h)asing? Last Friday I was finding out how to get the API builder installed. That was for a non programmer not that easy, but there is plenty of documentation on Microsoft Learn which is usefull. Today, I will try to build the connection to my SQL Instance which is running on premise in a VM. My NUC can do this.. It is awesome to get this done. Since I do not know what or where it should run, I just opened VSCode and start to write a Powershell like thing because I know I have to repeat some of this stuff sooner or later.

July 7, 2023

Continue my investigation journey on Data API Builder

After my install yesterday, I could easily read what to do. But, Microsoft Learn is telling you something else. Where MS Learn tells you to do > dab --version I found that returned an error message: dab : The term 'dab' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

July 6, 2023

Going to Microsoft Fabric Usergroup Denmark

One of my friends invited me to do something on his Data Fabric usergroup Denmark in August. He wanted me to do a thing else than the Defender stuff. So I opted in for something new. I have read and seen some nice videos about a Open Source tool from Microsoft called Data API Builder. But, since it is new for me and I am eager to learn it. It is fun to do.