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Kamil Nowinski
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Blogger, speaker. Data Platform MVP, MCSE. Senior Data Engineer & data geek. Member of Data Community Poland, co-organizer of SQLDay, Happy husband & father.

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10 reasons why IT certifications are still important

As someone who has spent over 20 years in the Software/Data Engineering area and has obtained numerous certifications, I can confidently say that certifications are still a valuable asset in

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Last Weeks Reading (2024-02-11)

📰 News Power BI Project (PBIP) and Azure DevOps build pipelines for continuous integration Integrating the PBIP format with Azure DevOps lets you use Azure Pipelines to automate CI/CD pipelines.

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Last Weeks Reading (2024-01-28)

📰 News Fabric end-to-end use case: Data Engineering part 2 – Pipelines If you’re new in Microsoft Fabric – check this series and build it with Sam. Set up Azure

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Last Weeks Reading (2023-12-17)

📰 News What happened in the DAX world in 2022 New DAX functions… in 2022 The Microsoft Learn Cloud Skills Challenge Microsoft Ignite edition is back! How to build unit

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Last Weeks Reading (2023-11-26)

📰 News Deploy a Delta Sharing Server on Azure Want to learn how to deploy a DeltaSharing server on Azure, but don’t know where to begin? Why Structured Streaming and

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Last Weeks Reading (2023-11-05)

📰 News Process Azure Event Hubs data using Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flows Read how to process Azure Event Hubs data using ADF for certain use cases. Automate a

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Stellar Repair for MS SQL – Product Review

If you’re experiencing delays and errors while working with SQL Server databases due to corrupt database files, you may feel frustrated and helpless. Fortunately, Stellar Repair for MS SQL offers

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Synapse Analytics workspace – deployment challenges

Azure Synapse Analytics is not just “another service” in the Azure. It’s very comprehensive set of tools rather than one-goal-tool (like Azure Key Vault or even Storage Account). On the

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InvalidAbfsRestOperationException in Azure Synapse notebook

Problem The first issue that developers in my team noticed was when they tried to create database with Spark: Error message: org.apache.spark.sql.AnalysisException: org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.HiveException: MetaException(meesage: Got exception:  org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.contracts.exceptions.InvalidAbfsRestOperationException Status code: -1