Category: Debugging

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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Access to the path ‘D:\home\site\wwwroot\host.json’ is denied.

Azure Functions Benjamin Perkins

If you a receive a System.UnauthorizedAccessException with a message Access to the path ‘D:\home\site\wwwroot\host.json’ is denied, then it likely means you have a network configuration which is blocking access to the Azure Storage Account on which your Azure Function is hosted.  Perform the following to check and see if this could be the case. Check […]

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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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