Connecting Azure Databricks to Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 Part 1
This blog post is part one in a three-part series that will address how to
use Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 as external storage with Azure
Databricks.
2019-07-12
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Connecting Azure Databricks to Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 Part 1
This blog post is part one in a three-part series that will address how to
use Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 as external storage with Azure
Databricks.
2019-07-12
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Connecting Azure Databricks to Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 Part 1
This blog post is part one in a three-part series that will address how to
use Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) Gen2 as external storage with Azure
Databricks.
2019-07-12
176 reads
Finding Data Gaps
Quality data is a goal we all strive to attain. Nobody wants to have bad data. Yet, despite our best efforts, the problem of bad data has its way...
2019-07-11
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Finding Data Gaps
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Get email alert when number of queries waiting for CPU exceeds thresold
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2019-07-11
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Powershell one liner to export data directly from SQL Server to Excel
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2019-07-11
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Learning Powershell with Show-Command
Years ago I blogged about how I like to use the SSMS scripting feature to learn how to do things. ... Continue reading
2019-08-01 (first published: 2019-07-11)
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Azure SQL Elastic Jobs
The purpose of an Elastic Job is to execute a T-SQL script that is scheduled or executed ad-hoc against a group of Azure SQL databases. Targets can be in...
2019-07-11
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Spark and dotnet in a single docker container
I really like the new dotnet driver for Spark because I think it makes spark more accesable to devs who might not know pythpn or scala.
If you want to...
2019-07-11
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Question of the Day
The Range of Customers
I have this data in the OrderHeader table in a SQL Server 2025 database (ordered by CustomerID ASC):
orderid orderdate customerid complete 3 2025-05-10 00:00:00.0002 1 21 2024-01-10 00:00:00.0003 1 15 2023-10-28 00:00:00.0004 1 13 2025-03-08 00:00:00.0006 1 11 2024-04-02 00:00:00.0007 1If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT * from dbo.OrderHeader where customerid between 3 and '6'See possible answers