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: 2023-01-01)
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Azure Player Blog
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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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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Mounting ADLS point using Spark in Azure Synapse
Last weekend, I played a bit with Azure Synapse from a way of mounting Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 in Synapse notebook within API in the Microsoft Spark...
2022-07-18
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Mounting ADLS point using Spark in Azure Synapse
Last weekend, I played a bit with Azure Synapse from a way of mounting Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2 in Synapse notebook within API in the Microsoft Spark...
2022-07-18
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Cloud Formations – A New MVP Led Training Initiative
Hello, data friends! Let me spread a few words about the new MVP led training initiative started by my friend and fellow MVP – Paul Andrew. It’s called Cloud...
2022-05-22
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Cloud Formations – A New MVP Led Training Initiative
Hello, data friends! Let me spread a few words about the new MVP led training initiative started by my friend and fellow MVP – Paul Andrew. It’s called Cloud...
2022-05-22
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Discovering diagram of dependencies in Synapse Analytics and ADF pipelines
Documenting objects dependencies of ETL processes is a tough task. Regardless it is SSIS, ADF, pipelines in Azure Synapse or other systems. The reasons for understanding the current solution...
2022-01-24
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Discovering diagram of dependencies in Synapse Analytics and ADF pipelines
Documenting objects dependencies of ETL processes is a tough task. Regardless it is SSIS, ADF, pipelines in Azure Synapse or other systems. The reasons for understanding the current solution...
2022-01-24
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Database projects with SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
Last Year (2021) I released a full and comprehensive course about SSDT: developing and maintenance SQL Server database within SQL Server Data Tools in Visual Studio. Thank you to...
2022-01-13
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What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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