Tags: C#

Free PDF download MCA Microsoft Certified Associate Azure Data Engineer Study Guide: Exam DP-203

Benjamin Perkins, Azure Data Engineer, C#

If you want to get a free copy of the Index, Table of Contents and of Chapter 1, have a look here.  Click on the READ AN EXCERPT dropdown and then select the one you would like to review.  Figure 1 illustrates how that looks like. Figure 1, how to get a free PDF copy […]

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MCA Microsoft Certified Associate Azure Data Engineer Study Guide: Exam DP-203

Benjamin Perkins, Azure Data Engineer, C#

I am proud to announce the publication of my newest book titled, “Microsoft Certified Associate Data Engineer Study Guide” for the DP-203 exam. The example data used in this book consists of my brainwaves. You can download the data and the source code for all the examples in the book on GitHub here . ADLS, […]

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LSRServiceException – Could not find Linked Service, the linked service does not exist or is not published

Azure Synapse Analytics Benjamin Perkins

I only had 1 SparkPool which was provisioned using Apache Spark version 3.1.  So when I created my Regression Azure Machine Learning model it defaulted to that Spark Pool.  When I clicked on the Create run button, after some moments, I received the following error… Figure 1, Could not find Linked Service, the linked service […]

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Sending base 64 messages to an Azure Storage Queue for Azure Function

Azure Functions Benjamin Perkins

If you happen to get this exception on an Azure Function when you have an Azure Storage Queue triggered Azure Function: The input is not a valid Base-64 string as it contains a non-base 64 character, more than two padding characters, or an illegal character among the padding characters. Figure 1, base-64 message required for […]

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Service Bus triggered Azure Function AutoComplete false, duplicates

Azure Functions Benjamin Perkins

As you read here the default setting for AutoComplete is true.  When you create a Service Bus triggered Azure Function you install an extension named Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.ServiceBus as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1, Service Bus Azure Function AutoComplete The NuGet package is here and the source code here.  The point of this article is explain […]

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