Mount an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Account in Databricks
In this article we will walk through a clear end-to-end process of securely mounting an ADLS gen2 account in Databricks.
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Your manager doesn't always know what you're doing, and rarely knows what you've done. That's your job.
Prepare, Blend, and Analyze Salesforce Data in Alteryx Designer
The ODBC Driver for Salesforce from CData provides ODBC-based access to live Salesforce data, allowing you to interact with Salesforce data in a range of BI, reporting, and ETL tools — as well as directly using SQL queries. In this article, we demonstrate how to connect to Salesforce data using an ODBC connection in Alteryx Designer to conduct self-service BI, data preparation, data blending, and advanced […]
Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis: Oracle Text
Oracle has built-in functionality to analyze text. Sanil Mhatre demonstrates how to perform a sentiment analysis on data stored in a table using Oracle Text.
Be aware of the risk that you are taking when using AWS EC2 I3 instance type
The AWS I3 storage optimized instance family has a potential problem if you choose to use it for storing your data.
Unix vs PowerShell
I saw an article on using awk, sed, and grep on Linux. I used to know how to use those, though I was by no means an expert. However, working with a stream of text with an input and output was a valuable skill I've used over and over in my career. There are plenty […]
Our Top Findings from The State of Database Monitoring Survey
Over 2500 global database professionals answered questions on their experiences with database monitoring in our annual survey earlier this year. We’re creating four reports from the findings and in our first, The real-world challenges of growing server estates, you’ll discover both insights and trends along with advice for how to tackle the most common challenges.
SQL Server identity column
The SQL Server identity column is used to populate a column with incrementing numbers on insert. In this article, Greg Larsen explains how it works.
The State of Data Growth
Data continues to grow at incredible rates. That's good for those of us that make a living with data.
Array and Custom Data Types in PostgreSQL
Introduction Just like every other database, PostgreSQL has its own set of basic datatypes, like Boolean, Varchar, Text, Date, Time, etc. We can easily store data like numbers, characters, date, time, etc. using these supported datatypes, but what if we need to store multiple data elements in a single column? Suppose we are storing the […]
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