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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If you have not read or heard about Microsoft Copilot read more about it here. In summary it is a natural language generative AI application that can respond to questions using your proprietary/private data in sentences and paragraphs instead of links. It does much more than that, read the article if you want to find […]
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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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A few interesting scenarios I experienced that I wanted to document. Firstly, there is a lot of focus on Visual Studio Code, I’m still working on ramping up there and aligning with and contributing the momentum it is building. I see Visual Studio Code as the place where those who want to get into Open […]
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I would like to proudly announce the release and availability of my new Beginning C# and .NET 2021 Edition book, which was co-authored with Jon Reid. The book contains over 800 pages of material relating to the skills and knowledge required to become a great C# programmer. The book is designed around the premise that […]
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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 →I wrote this post “Batching a Service Bus triggered Azure Function” as a prefix to the one here. That post shows how to configure a batch of messages so that they get processed in a single Function Invocation. What is a ‘”Function Invocation” you might ask? Well…, when you setup an Azure Function you bind […]
Read More →I spent some time working with a Service Bus triggered Azure Function and found some interesting scenarios. They are mostly intuitive, and I think when you are presented this, it makes sense. But sometimes I also think that stating the obvious is necessary, too, because sometimes it might not be so obvious to everyone, myself […]
Read More →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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