In this episode, Simon and Alexander talk to Gregor Suttie about being a developer in amongst infrastructure people, the community and certifications! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here (available after 11.30 CEST): Show notes: Pettson o Findus i snickarbon

I remember it like it was yesterday. Simon calling me on late one evening, telling me that Toni was dead. We didn’t speak that much between the episodes, but his brother had gotten concerned when Toni dropped off the radar a few days earlier. After several days of no word from Toni, his brother went to his apartment and found him deceased. We were devastated - our friend, our colleague, our co-host in this endeavor was no longer with us - just like that. He was 41 years old. It has now been a year to the day without Toni. Life goes on and the pandemic is slowly easing its grip on the world.

In this episode, the trio talk lots of updates to Power BI, Azure Synapse Analytics, Intune, Windows Insider, Azure Monitor and more, and then try to agree on the word “tenant”. Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here (available after 11.30 CEST): Show notes: Power BI February Update Cost Management Anomaly Detection SSMS 18.11 Release notes Path forward for SQL Server Analytics Latest news in Microsoft Intune Update from the Windows Insider programs Direct Enterprise Agreement on Azure Cost Management and Billing Azure Monitor Log Analytics data export generally available The Next Evolution of Azure Monitor Logs

In this episode, the trio talk about Container Apps VNET integration, five tips for Azure Synapse Analytics, Exporting Power BI to file, Azure Bastion, Linux support in Conditional Access, Certificate-based authentication in Azure AD and the art, science and black magic that is writing abstracts and choosing abstracts for conferences! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here (available after 11.30 CEST): Show notes: Azure Container Apps Virtual Network Integration Top 5 Quick Tips for Synapse Analytics Azure Bastion Native client support Conditional Access gets support for Linux endpoints New version of Zoomit Certificate-based auth in Azure AD

In this episode, Alexander have a chat with Marc Lelijveld, a fellow Data Platform MVP and Power BI expert from the Netherlands! Subscribe to us on Spotify, on iTunes or listen to the episode right here (available after 11.30 CEST): Show notes:

Time flies when you’re having fun, and I’ve been thinking about writing a new post on the equipment, settings and workflow we use for the podcast. Suddenly it was 2022 and it was two years since I wrote the last series, so I’ll divide this one the same way. Gear Recording Post Processing Publication Let’s kick off the first part of the series – the gear. Recording on the move When we’re at the same place to record (which is rare these days) or when we’re out and about and do interviews with people, we use a Zoom H6 recorder and AKG C520/C520L microphones.

In part 1 of this blog series I outlined the gear we use to record the podcast. This part will focus on the techniques and settings we use to recording an episode. Gear Recording Post Processing Publication We share a OneNote file with ideas and information for every episode. We kind of screwed up the episode numbering early on. While we’re technically on episode 171 at the time of this writing, we have recorded several more specials and weirdly numbered episodes. This goes to show that not all ideas are good ideas in the long run and that starting a podcast isn’t easy… Late 2020 we decided to up the episode length to 45-ish minutes.

As a quick recap you might remember that the starting point for this step is the synced audio files from Riverside. As they are indeed synced, the tedious work I had to do previously to align the files is no longer needed. I am not missing that work at all… Gear Recording Post Processing Publication Dealing with noise Noise is everywhere. Noise can be something obvious as people talking loudly nearby, the drone of an air conditioning unit, to ground hum picked up from AC wiring. Some noise can be minimized, some might almost be completely removed. As always the key is to start with as clean a signal as possible, as there is only so much one can do in post-production.