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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.