ADF: Querying JSON documents
In my previous blog post I talked about how to read from an XML Webervice and use xpath to query the XML on the expressions side of things. You...
2021-02-26
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Ed Elliott
ADF, XML objects and XPath in the expression language
When you use ADF, there are two sides to the coin. The first is the data itself that ADF does very well, from moving it from one site to...
2021-02-18 (first published: 2021-02-12)
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ADF, XML objects and XPath in the expression language
When you use ADF, there are two sides to the coin. The first is the data itself that ADF does very well, from moving it from one site to...
2021-02-12
25 reads
Synapse Analytics and .NET for Apache Spark Example 4 - JOINS
This is a bit of a longer one, a look at how to do all the different joins and the exciting thing for MSSQL developers is that we get...
2021-02-05 (first published: 2021-01-25)
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Synapse Analytics and .NET for Apache Spark Example 4 - JOINS
This is a bit of a longer one, a look at how to do all the different joins and the exciting thing for MSSQL developers is that we get...
2021-01-25
12 reads
Synapse Analytics and .NET for Apache Spark Example 3 - CTE()
The next example is how to do a CTE (Common Table Expression). When creating the CTE I will also rename one of the columns from “dataType” to “x”.
T-SQL WITH...
2021-01-19
65 reads
Synapse Analytics and .NET for Apache Spark Example 3 - CTE()
The next example is how to do a CTE (Common Table Expression). When creating the CTE I will also rename one of the columns from “dataType” to “x”.
T-SQL WITH...
2021-01-19
7 reads
Git in 10 commands to do 99% of gitting and keeping out of trouble
Git is hard, probably harder than it needs to be but I have been using it for about 5 years and have a workflow that works for me. I...
2021-01-18 (first published: 2021-01-12)
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Synapse Analytics and .NET for Apache Spark Example 1 - Group By
I have been playing around with the new Azure Synapse Analytics, and I realised that this is an excellent opportunity for people to move to Apache Spark. Synapse Analytics...
2021-01-18
21 reads
Synapse Analytics and .NET for Apache Spark Example 1 - Group By
I have been playing around with the new Azure Synapse Analytics, and I realised that this is an excellent opportunity for people to move to Apache Spark. Synapse Analytics...
2021-01-18
7 reads
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