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 […]
Read More →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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NOTE: it is now possible to achieve this in the Azure portal which means the modification of the XDT file is no longer necessary. It will still work and knowing about this capability might help you implement something which does not currently have an interface to do so…yet. Here is some information about doing this […]
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Having setup an External Git connection to my Azure DevOps repository. This means I pull the content instead of implementing Azure Pipelines to push changes when committed, this is CI/CD. Figure 1, Sync Azure Function Deployment Center Azure DevOps Same issue as in this article – Access to the path is denied, Azure DevOps, Azure […]
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I have been doing some testing with Azure Function deployments which requires me to break stuff. That gets me into some real trouble sometimes when all I want is a deployment to work like normal. Here are some other articles I wrote also while doing this. Azure DevOps Visual Studio 2022 add source code Missing […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →One of the most common reasons that an Azure Function is not triggered as expected is because the endpoint which notifies the Function to run is misconfigured or blocked for some reason. The scenario I am focusing on here usually occurs during testing or after a deployment. If you are doing or have done neither […]
Read More →I wrote this blog How to reprocess or retrigger a blob triggered Azure Function and it enlighten me enough to write this one. There may be more reasons for the scenario, so this is just a way in which you might encounter a blob triggered Azure Function being triggered multiple times for the same blob. […]
Read More →Updating or reprocessing data is a big deal. For many companies, the intellectual property which exists in their data a lot of times not only drives the business forward, but it is the business. If that data gets corrupted or worse, lost, then the business can come to an end. When you are working with […]
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I would like to proudly announce the release and availability of my new Azure Solution Architect Complete Study Guide. The book contains over 700 pages of material relating to the skills and knowledge required to become a great Azure Solution Architect. The book is designed around the requirements for passing both the AZ-303 and AZ-304 […]
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