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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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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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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These labs provide a group of debugging scenarios focused on helping you get some hands on experience in debugging the most common type of IIS issues. For example, hang/performance, crash and memory issues. Installation These labs are focused IIS 8.5, but can be run on the following versions of IIS IIS Version Operating System IIS […]
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A very critical part of implementing a Generative AI solution that utilizes Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) like Microsoft Copilot is the discovery of the most relevant grounding documents. These most relevant grounding documents are then passed to the LLM for use in generating the NLP response. For example, if you want to find out how […]
Read More →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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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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The location from which a process is invoked is important. A process, I.e. an executable (.exe) is the program which contains the entry point to the code which needs to run. If the location is in a relative position related to the assemblies it requires, then the .exe can use relative paths to access an […]
Read More →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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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 […]
Read More →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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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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If you wanted to block inbound traffic to your Azure Function, one option is to use an Access Restriction. To check if you have one, navigate to the Networking blade for your Azure Function and check if Access restriction is On. Figure 1, Access Restriction and Azure Functions Take caution that although this let’s you […]
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