Azure Databricks – Adding Libraries
It is a really common requirement to add specific libraries to databricks. Libraries can be written in Python, Java, Scala, and R. You can upload Java, Scala, and Python...
2020-11-03
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Arun Sirpal
Azure Databricks and Azure Key Vault
The key vault should always be a core component of your Azure design because we can store keys, secrets, certicates thus abstract / hide the true connection string within...
2020-10-28
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Azure Databricks – Pin Cluster
Before discussing why you would want to pin a cluster it would be useful to understand the different states of a cluster. We can have: I usually have “auto...
2020-10-22
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Azure Databricks to Power BI
A very common approach is to query data straight from Databricks via Power BI. For this you need Databricks token and the JDBC address URL. This is found within...
2020-10-20
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Azure Databricks – The Notebook
Data engineers, pipe line developers, general data enthusiasts will be spending most of their time within a notebook. Here you develop your code, nice visualisations and commentary boxes are...
2020-10-14
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Azure Databricks Overview
I have spent many long weekends getting stuck into Azure Databricks, plenty of time to understand the core functionality from mounting storage, streaming data, knowing the delta lake and...
2020-10-06
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Backups for Azure SQL Virtual Machines
When it comes to database backups for IaaS based Azure SQL Servers you have 3 options. Automated Backups, both V1 and V2 depending on the SQL Server version. Azure...
2020-09-16
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Automating DBCC CHECKDB for Azure SQL DB with Azure Functions
Warning, this is a longer post from me than usual. The title is a mouthful and so is this post. In the past I have linked to blog posts...
2020-09-09
317 reads
Azure SQL Database for the DBA
Last month I gave a presentation to The PASS Hybrid VG https://hybrid.pass.org/. Now is a good time to become “cloud ready” as a DBA and my presentation gives a...
2020-09-03
47 reads
Azure SQL Database – Read Only Endpoints
One of the main benefits of configuring active geo-replication for Azure SQL Database is leveraging the read-only endpoint, a good technique to split away read only activity from OLTP...
2020-08-25
146 reads
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