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Dropping a SQL table in your Synapse Spark notebooks (Python Edition)
So since writing the original post about how to drop a SQL table from a Spark Notebook I've been meaning to follow it up with a version...
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Dropping a SQL table in your Synapse Spark notebooks
For the Python version of the code below, see the follow-up post. One of the nice things with Spark Pools in Azure Synapse Analytics is...
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Documentation the easy way
So a slight departure from Spark (sort of) for this post, but I wanted to look at one of the most commonly overlooked aspects of building...
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Processing Excel Data using Spark with Azure Synapse Analytics
Having recently released the Excel data source for Spark 3, I wanted to follow up with a "lets use it to process some Excel data" post....
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Using Spark to read from Excel
People have data in Excel, so lets have a look at how we can read that data using Spark
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Just one more column, what could go wrong?
Sometimes, when you go scanning through the documentation for Spark, you come across notes about certain functions. These tend to offer...
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Why leave bad data to chance?
Something that we often see as Spark jobs are moved into production is that handling of bad data is either ignored, or a lot of effort...
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Pivot, Step, Pivot, Twist, Un-pivot
Getting data into a good shape is a key part to Data Engineering, and we often get data in all sorts of shape and quality
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When in doubt, shell out
The command line is a powerful environment that lets you do a lot of work quickly, easily, and in a repeatable way
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