Category: Data Store

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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Use external Hive Metastore for Synapse Spark Pool

Azure Synapse Analytics Benjamin Perkins

I wrote this article which is what helped me progress forward with this. External Apache Hive metastore, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL I am following these instructions.  Here is the kicker, which is likely something most people may already know, but in order to make this configuration the Hive Metastore must already exist on the Azure […]

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External Apache Hive metastore, Azure Databricks, Azure SQL

Azure Databricks Benjamin Perkins

I was following this documentation and had some experiences I wanted to document.  I wanted to accomplish this. Figure 1, External Apache Hive metastore using Azure Databricks and Azure SQL Figure 2, External Apache Hive metastore using Azure Databricks and Azure SQL The cluster version I used was the most current one. Figure 3, Azure […]

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ASP.NET Core with Entity Framework Core – ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT

Benjamin Perkins C#

This is another one, Figure 1, that just kind of happened because I dropped my database.  Once I re-created the database and my ASP.NET Core application could access it, all was back to normal. Figure 1, ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT environment variable to Development, and restarting the application. Error. An error occurred while processing your request. Development Mode […]

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