Azure
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Manage Fabric connections at scale with connection recency in Fabric REST APIs
Connections are shared infrastructure in Microsoft Fabric, and at enterprise scale it gets hard to tell which ones are still in use. Connection Recency in the Fabric REST APIs surfaces when a connection was last linked and last used, so you can audit and retire them safely.
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Connect securely to Snowflake in Fabric Pipelines and Copy Jobs
Snowflake is a common source and sink for enterprise data movement, and Microsoft Fabric Data Factory supports it in both pipelines and Copy Jobs. Here is how Workspace-level Private Link, a private Azure Storage account, and Snowflake’s USE_PRIVATELINK_ENDPOINT fit together to keep the whole path off the public internet.
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Disabling Public Network Access in Synapse
Disabling public network access on a Synapse workspace throws a 403 in Synapse Studio. Here is why, and how private endpoints fix it.
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How to read Data Lake with Synapse Serverless – Part 2
Use a Synapse Serverless external table to query a path in your Azure Data Lake with plain T-SQL. Part 2 of two.
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How to read Data Lake with Synapse Serverless – Part 1
Query files in your Azure Data Lake with the Synapse Serverless pool using OPENROWSET, with no infrastructure to provision. Part 1 of two.
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Structured Streaming in Synapse Spark
In this post we are going to look at an example of streaming IoT temperature data in Synapse Spark. I have an IoT device that will stream temperature data from two sensors to IoT hub. We’ll use Synapse Spark to process the data, and finally write the output to persistent storage. Here is what our…
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Automate Azure VM Storage
The Problem One of the best things about Azure, and the cloud in general, is we can automate most anything, and we are going to look at how to automate Azure VM Storage. This allows us to come up with some outside-of-the-box solutions. I had a customer with a road block that we were able…