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Last Weeks Reading (2024-02-11)

📰 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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SQLPlayer is renaming

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: )

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InvalidAbfsRestOperationException in Azure Synapse notebook

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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