Reitse Eskens

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An image taken from the top floor of my house, showing an angry sky with multiple lightning bolts. On the left and right, two are going straight down, and in the middle, there's a large bolt going across.

Image of the Microsoft Build page, with text welcome to Microsoft Build.

Picture of a country lane with low hedges. Trees to the left and in front, a cornfield on the right where plants are beginning to emerge from the soil. The picture is taken during the golden hour in the morning with a little fog.

Building with the letters RBAC on the front.

Rear of my car where the rear bumper has been torn of.

Video of plane of final approach, about 200 meters above the ground.

Picture of a park with parked cars on the road in front. Part of the trees are in the sunlight the rest isn’t. Trees covered in icy snow

Screenshot of an Azure Windows VM running PowerShell 7 and dbatools, load-testing an Azure SQL database. The picture shows the loading of the partsupp file being in progress

Screenshot of processes running in Fabric. It's showing a finished Lakehouse process in 1 hour and 43 minutes, a finished Warehouse process in 2 hours and 3 minutes, and a running Fabric SQL DB process in progress.

Picture of a shrub branch (dark brown) with a small piece of icy snow hanging from it. The image is taken with a low aperture, resulting in a blurred background.

Picture of the timekeeping room with a view of the 400m rink. People are talking and shown are the systems for photo finish, laser finish detection with transponders and the television graphics.

Screenshot of the Visual Studio Installer interface, showing SSMS 21, SSMS 22 and Visual Studio Community 2022 and on top, a hint that Visual Studio 2026 is available for download.

Picture showing links to
Aka.ms/Fabric-security
Aka.ms/Fabric-sec-paper
Aka.ms/Purview

Picture of my legs in a plane without a chair in front of me. This assures me of plenty legroom

Picture of a train at the railway station, taken from another train

Screenshot of a congratulatory message as my blog reached 100.000 views!

Picture of the MVP award stand with two rings on them, one showing 2024, the other 2025-2026. On top of the rings a LEGO minifig with in very small print the text “select * from dbo.bricks “

Screenshot of an email sent by Microsoft telling me that my MVP award is renewed in the areas of Azure SQL and Microsoft Fabric

A picture of breakfast and dinner plates in rainbow colours, each plate in a solid colour.
On the left a kitchen machine and a coffee machine.

Picture of our back garden with some grass, pebbles, bushes and hedges. In the back some trees. Blue sky and the sun shining through the trees. On the right the back of our house and the one from the neighbours.

Picture of my desk with a box set of all 9 Star Wars films. Top right shows part of a screen showing a bike race, top left a screen of task manager.

Sunset seen trough a gate