How to read mismatched schema in apache spark
In today’s world, python dominates the data analysis space, while apache-spark rules the big data paradigm. The former contains a plethora of libraries like pandas...
A first look at Azure Synapse Analytics
Strongly recommended reading: Azure Synapse Analytics: Azure SQL Data Warehouse revamped In the aforementioned article, we gave an introduction to Azure Synapse...
Introducing Azure Data Factory Data Flows
They say that life comes full circle i.e. you start and end at the same point. However, in my humble opinion, that is not true. Life is like an unending spiral. You do...
Managed Identity between Azure Data Factory and Azure storage
Last month Microsoft announced that Data Factory is now a ‘Trusted Service’ in Azure Storage and Azure Key Vault firewall. Accordingly, Data Factory can...
Introduction to SSIS and making it metadata independent
Introducing SSIS In the Microsoft Sql Server Integration services (SSIS), we have a variety of tasks to perform ETL. However, with changing data landscape and newer...
Azure Synapse Analytics: Azure SQL Data Warehouse revamped
Prologue On 5th November 2019, I read an early morning announcement of Azure Synapse Analytics. It was formerly known as Azure SQL Data warehouse. This announcement took...
Inside Bill’s Brain: revisiting the documentary
What’s Inside Bill’s Brain? One such winner is Bill Gates. ‘Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates’ is a Netflix docuseries which brings...
Lambda Architecture with Azure Databricks
Introducing Lambda Architecture It is imperative to know what is a Lambda Architecture, before jumping into Azure Databricks. The greek symbol lambda(λ) signifies...
Comparing SSIS Lookup and SQL Joins
Motivating SSIS lookups Denormalization is the most important step to create a Data warehouse. Fundamentally, we do so to populate surrogate key of a dimension in a fact...
Is Artificial Intelligence a threat to Software Engineers?
The fear of the singularity Every threat is an opportunity The Forbes magazine article Software Ate The World, Now AI Is Eating Software reminded me of the movie...