Getting Started with Azure Purview for Data Governance
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Azure Databricks Access Controls and Row Level Security
Azure Databricks has a number of Access Controls and Row Level Security options that we will explore in this article.
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Using Delta Schema Evolution in Azure Databricks
In this article we explore schema evolution capabilities and limitations in Databricks with regular parquet format and explore schema evolution features and capabilities through delta format with inserts, appends, and overwrites.
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Creating Deep and Shallow Delta Clones in Azure Databricks
In this article we will look at how to create deep and shallow clones of source data when using Azure Databricks.
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Getting Started with MLflow in Azure Databricks
In this article we cover how to get started with MLflow using Azure Databricks which manages the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle.
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PolyBase scale-out group in Azure for free
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Query Audit data in Azure SQL Database using Kusto Query Language (KQL)
In this article we look at how you can user the Kusto Query Language (KQL) for querying Azure SQL Database audit data.
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Exploring the Capabilities of Azure Synapse Spark External Tables
In this article we explore additional capabilities of Azure Synapse Spark and SQL Serverless External Tables.
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Azure AD Authentication for Azure SQL Databases
In this article we walk through how to connect to Azure SQL Database using Azure Active Directory authentication along with multi-factor authentication.
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
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