As someone who has spent over 20 years in the Software/Data Engineering area and has obtained numerous certifications, I can confidently say that certifications are still a valuable asset...
2024-03-08 (first published: 2024-02-23)
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📰 News Power BI Project (PBIP) and Azure DevOps build pipelines for continuous integration Integrating the PBIP format with Azure DevOps lets you use Azure Pipelines to automate CI/CD...
2024-02-11
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📰 News Fabric end-to-end use case: Data Engineering part 2 – Pipelines If you’re new in Microsoft Fabric – check this series and build it with Sam. Set up...
2024-01-29
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📰 News What happened in the DAX world in 2022 New DAX functions… in 2022 The Microsoft Learn Cloud Skills Challenge Microsoft Ignite edition is back! How to build...
2023-12-18
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📰 News Deploy a Delta Sharing Server on Azure Want to learn how to deploy a DeltaSharing server on Azure, but don’t know where to begin? Why Structured Streaming...
2023-11-26
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📰 News Process Azure Event Hubs data using Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flows Read how to process Azure Event Hubs data using ADF for certain use cases. Automate...
2023-11-05
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If you’re experiencing delays and errors while working with SQL Server databases due to corrupt database files, you may feel frustrated and helpless. Fortunately, Stellar Repair for MS SQL...
2023-03-15
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Azure Synapse Analytics is not just “another service” in the Azure. It’s very comprehensive set of tools rather than one-goal-tool (like Azure Key Vault or even Storage Account). On...
2023-03-07
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It was about time. The blog and all related services are being changed the name. From SQL Player to Azure Player. You probably noticed over several years that the...
2023-01-02 (first published: 2023-01-01)
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Problem The first issue that developers in my team noticed was when they tried to create database with Spark: Error message: org.apache.spark.sql.AnalysisException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: MetaException(meesage: Got exception: org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.contracts.exceptions.InvalidAbfsRestOperationException Status code:...
2022-12-05
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By Steve Jones
I love Chicago. I went to visit three times in 2023: a Redgate event,...
By Brian Kelley
I have found that non-functional requirements (NFRs) can be hard to define for a...
You can find the slidedeck for my Techorama session “Microsoft Fabric for Dummies” on...
Testing with AG on Linux with Cluster=NONE. it was all going ok and as...
Hi, I have two tables: one for headers with 9 fields and another for...
We're trying to understand how quick new versions of SQL server can be. Obviously...
Let’s consider the following script that can be executed without any error on both SQL Sever and PostgreSQL. We define the table t1 in which we insert three records:
create table t1 (id int primary key, city varchar(50)); insert into t1 values (1, 'Rome'), (2, 'New York'), (3, NULL);If we execute the following query, how will the records be sorted in both environments?
select city from t1 order by city;See possible answers