Azure Databricks

T-SQL Tuesday 161 – Fun with T-SQL by querying a delta table

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For this months T-SQL Tuesday contribution I want to cover when I had fun with T-SQL by querying a delta table. Reitse Eskens hosts this months T-SQL Tuesday. Reitse invites us to blog about having fun with T-SQL. Which I definitely had making the video for last years Festive Tech Calendar. You can read the … Read more

Recommended certifications for Azure Databricks enthusiasts

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Since this is my first post of the year, I want to cover some recommended certifications for Azure Databricks enthusiasts. In my last post I provided some advice if Microsoft certifications are your New Year’s resolution. I thought I better do a follow-up that provided some recommended certifications for Azure Databricks along with some other … Read more

Festive Tech Calendar 2022 contribution

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My Festive Tech Calendar 2022 contribution was released this week. It is a video available on YouTube called “Viewing a list of Christmas presents from Azure Data Engineering services“. Which shows how can query Christmas presents which are stored in csv or parquet files using Azure Databricks and Azure Synapse Analytics. Plus, I cover Delta … Read more

A Data Platform area I recently recommended

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In this post I want to cover a Data Platform area I recently recommended to a colleague. Since the answer surprised me. A while back a colleague who is studying for Azure Data Platform certifications mentioned that there were a lot of areas they could focus on after their exams. They then asked me if … Read more

Allow list for Databricks Repos

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In this post I want to cover the results of some interesting tests I did with the allow list for Databricks Repos. In short, Databricks Repos is a reasonably new feature in Azure Databricks which allows you to work on a complete set of files that are stored in a Git repository. To find out … Read more