If you've spent years writing SQL for a living, you already know how this goes. Someone pings you on Teams asking, "How many active customers do we have in the Midwest this quarter?" There you are, back in the query editor, writing a JOIN you've written fifty times before. Genie Spaces in Databricks is built […]
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Get a short introduction to Liquid Clustering in Databricks.
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The core functionality of Apache Spark has support for structured streaming using either a batch or a continuous method. The two most popular sources of input data are data lake files and Kafka events. Check point files in the data lake are used to keep track of what data has been processed to date.
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How can we get familiar with Azure Databricks with Spark Dataframes?
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Learn how to get started with a few sample prompt templates by using the gpt-4 LLM within OpenAI and LangChain in a Databricks notebook.
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Learn about the different tables that can be created using Azure Databricks with a dive deep into the importance of Delta Lake tables.
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The goal of this article is to illuminate exactly what Azure Databricks is so that you can determine what parts of the platform might make sense to add to your organization's data stack.
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Getting "Failed to load data model" for an Azure Databricks DirectQuery connection in Power BI? Adam hit it too and walks through how to fix it in Power BI...
2019-04-16
By Brian Kelley
During COVID, I attended training on software/enterprise architecture given by Mark Richards. One of...
For me, the objective is straightforward: have a backup strategy that is reliable, understandable,...
By DesertDBA
Note: This post is the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #204 on November 3rd, 2026....
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On SQL Server 2025, I run this code as a sysadmin:
CREATE LOGIN Demo WITH PASSWORD = 'Demo1234567' GO ALTER SERVER ROLE ##MS_DatabaseConnector## ADD MEMBER Demo GOI then login as Demo and run this:
USE sandbox go SELECT CURRENT_USERWhat is returned? See possible answers
