Sql on Sam Debruyn

dbt fundamentals: an introduction to dbt in 2026 (workshop)

Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

New to dbt? This hands-on tutorial is your launchpad. Starting from scratch, you’ll set up your first dbt project in dbt Platform’s Studio IDE against Microsoft Fabric, with no local setup required. By the end of the session, you’ll understand what dbt is, why it has become the backbone of modern analytics engineering, and how it fits into the broader data transformation landscape. You’ll work through the core building blocks of dbt: models, sources, seeds, and Jinja templating, before moving into macros, documentation, and testing. Every concept is reinforced with practical exercises, so you leave with working code. Whether you’re a data analyst or an engineer stepping into the analytics space, this tutorial gives you the foundation to hit the ground running on your first real dbt project.

SQL Resurgence: Unleashing data potential with dbt

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The largest Microsoft Fabric community event in Belgium

Thread by Thread: Lessons from Migrating to Fabric

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The largest Microsoft Fabric community event in Belgium

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SQL Resurgence: Unleashing data potential with dbt

Mon, 06 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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From Fabric to Fantastic: How dbt Makes Your Lakehouses and Warehouses Shine

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Fabric Capacities: Divide and Conquer

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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A single Fabric Capacity is easy to set up. But what about the risk of a single user taking down your entire data estate with a poorly written query? In this session, we’ll explore how to split and configure Fabric Capacities for different workloads. Autoscaling, auto pause, bursting, smoothing, monitoring, and more, we’ll cover it all. By the end of this talk, you’re ready to build a scalable and robust design Fabric Workspace and Capacity design for the entire organization.

Fabric Capacities: Divide and Conquer

Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Fabric Fortresses: Setting Up Microsoft Fabric for Your Enterprise Needs

Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Join us to master Microsoft Fabric for enterprise-level challenges. Learn how to integrate private networking, manage resilience and disaster recovery, ensure seamless access control and configure vigilant monitoring to safeguard your data architecture. We’ll use Workspace Identity, Private Endpoints, and go through all the different ways to provide or restrict access to your data. By the end of this talk, you’ll be ready to build a robust and secure data platform on Microsoft Fabric.

From Flat to Sparkling: Monitoring Data Quality with Soda in Microsoft Fabric

Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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After loading all of your data into OneLake, you might be wondering how to ensure its quality. In this session, we’ll explore and demonstrate how Soda can help you monitor data quality with automated data testing and alerting, write and monitor data contracts, and browse data quality metrics in a user-friendly dashboard.

Medallion for Data Mesh: Exploring Workspace, Capacity, and Domain Design in Microsoft Fabric

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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Designing a medallion architecture is more than just setting up a few Lakehouses and Data Warehouses. In this session, data architects and engineers learn how to design a medallion architecture with Fabric Workspaces, Capacities, and Domains. We’ll cover the segregation of responsibilities, granular access control, and how to pick and choose the right Capacities for every workload. By the end of this talk, you’ll be ready to design a scalable and secure data platform with Microsoft Fabric.

From Flat to Sparkling: Monitoring Data Quality with Soda in Microsoft Fabric

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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After loading all of your data into OneLake, you might be wondering how to ensure its quality. In this session, we’ll explore and demonstrate how Soda can help you monitor data quality with automated data testing and alerting, write and monitor data contracts, and browse data quality metrics in a user-friendly dashboard.

SQL Resurgence: Unleashing Data Potential with dbt - session

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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Join us on an exhilarating exploration of the data landscape as we delve into the phenomenon that is dbt. It has taken the world by storm and is now the most popular data transformation tool. Let’s dive into this new era and witness the renaissance of SQL at the core of data analytics, bringing it back to those who know the data best.

SQL Resurgence: Unleashing Data Potential with dbt - workshop

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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NL dbt meetup: From Fabric to Fantastic: How dbt Makes Your Lakehouses and Warehouses Shine

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

On the 20th of September, I spoke at the NL dbt meetup .

From Fabric to Fantastic: How dbt Makes Your Lakehouses and Warehouses Shine

Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I gave a session on dbt at the Microsoft Fabric Global Online Conference. If you want to learn more about Microsoft Fabric, get your ticket for this free online event: https://microsoftfabric.global/

Medallion for Data Mesh: Exploring Workspace, Capacity, and Domain Design in Microsoft Fabric

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

On June 20th I spoke at the Fabric Brussels meetup.

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SQL Resurgence - Unleashing Data Potential with dbt

Tue, 07 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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Speakers:

Rik Pauwels, Tech Lead @ Devoteam - Client-side BI, a new wave in analytics?
Sam Debruyn, Tech Lead @ Dataroots - SQL Resurgence: Unleashing Data Potential with dbt
Lien Bosmans - A data engineer-friendly relational schema for object-centric process mining

Join us on an exhilarating exploration of the data landscape as we delve into the phenomenon that is dbt. It has taken the world by storm and is now the most popular data transformation tool. Let’s dive into this new era and witness the renaissance of SQL at the core of data analytics, bringing it back to those who know the data best. During this talk we’ll get to experience the first steps into dbt and be ready for our first dbt project.

SQL Resurgence - Unleashing Data Potential with dbt on Databricks

Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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I spoke at the Databricks meetup on how you can use dbt with SQL on Databricks to unleash the full potential of your data. The event was held at Cegeka in Antwerp, Belgium.

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Sam Debruyn (tech lead data & cloud @ dataroots)
Fabrice Deseyn (data architect & team lead @ Cegeka)

Data Agility Unleashed: A Deep Dive into Microsoft Fabric's Features (dataroots Fabric Event)

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I was invited to speak at the dataroots Microsoft Fabric Event in Leuven, Belgium. The event was held at De Hoorn, an old brewery in the city center.

Speakers:

Sam Debruyn (tech lead data & cloud @ dataroots)
Jonas Tundo (CEO @ dataroots)
Priya Sathy (Partner Director of Products @ Microsoft)

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Fabric end-to-end use case: Analytics Engineering part 1 - dbt with the Lakehouse

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 09:59:11 +0200

Welcome to the fourth part of a 5-part series on an end-to-end use case for Microsoft Fabric. This post will focus on the analytics engineering part of the use case.

In this series, we will explore how to use Microsoft Fabric to ingest, transform, and analyze data using a real-world use case. The series focuses on data engineering and analytics engineering. We will be using OneLake, Notebooks, Lakehouse, SQL Endpoints, Data Pipelines, dbt, and Power BI.

Connect to Fabric Lakehouses & Warehouses from Python code

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 09:14:24 +0200

In this post, I will show you how to connect to your Microsoft Fabric Lakehouses and Warehouses from Python.

Preparing a migration to Microsoft Fabric: from Azure Synapse Serverless SQL

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 11:16:45 +0200

If all those posts about Microsoft Fabric have made you curious, you might want to consider it as your next data platform. Since it is very new, not all features are available yet and most are still in preview. You could already adopt it, but if you want to deploy this to a production scenario, you’ll want to wait a bit longer. In the meantime, you can already start preparing for the migration. Let’s dive into the paths to migrate to Microsoft Fabric. Today: starting from Synapse Serverless SQL Pools.

Welcome to the 3rd generation: SQL in Microsoft Fabric

Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:15:11 +0200

While typing this blog post, I’m flying back from the Data Platform Next Step conference where I gave a talk about using dbt with Microsoft Fabric . DP Next Step was the first conference focussed on Microsoft data services right after the announcement of Microsoft Fabric so a lot of speakers were Microsoft employees and most of the talks had some Fabric content.

Fabric Fabric Fabric, what is it all about? In this post I’ll go deeper into what it is, why you should care and focus specifically on the SQL aspect of Fabric.

Tour de Tools #9 - Liquibase with Sam Debruyn

Fri, 04 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This talk was given during a lunch webinar at dataroots .

In this session, Sam Debruyn (aka Official Liquibase Fanboy, soon to be Legend) will demonstrate Liquibase – an open source database schema version controller . After an introduction on schema versioning and presentation of Liquibase, Sam will narrate us some stories from the trenches: how to optimally use the tool locally to avoid writing cumbersome XML, testing your transformations and integration with your automation tool.