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Day: October 8, 2024

Grouping Rows in R

Published 2024-10-08 by Kevin Feasel

Steven Sanderson needs a GROUP BY clause:

Combining rows with the same column values is a fundamental task in data analysis and manipulation, especially when handling large datasets. This guide is tailored for beginner R programmers looking to efficiently merge rows using Base R, the dplyr package, and the data.table package. By the end of this guide, you will be able to seamlessly aggregate data in R, enhancing your data analysis capabilities.

Click through for several code examples.

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Referencing a Microsoft Fabric ML Model from another Workspace

Published 2024-10-08 by Kevin Feasel

Sandeep Pawar crosses workspaces:

I have written a couple of blogs about working with ML models in Microsoft Fabric. Creating experiments and logging and scoring models in Fabric is very easy, thanks to the built-in MLflow integration. However, the Fabric Data Science experience has one limitation. There are no model endpoints yet, and you cannot load a model from another workspace because the model URI, unlike in Databricks, does not reference a workspace. If you use MLFlowTransformer as shown in this blog, only the model from the workspace where the notebook is hosted is loaded. However, there is a workaround.

Read on for that workaround, as well as the core limitation associated with it.

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Reduced Auto-Pause Delay for Azure SQL DB Serverless

Published 2024-10-08 by Kevin Feasel

Morgan Oslake goes to sleep sooner:

Azure SQL Database serverless automatically scales compute based on workload demand and bills for compute used per second.  In the General Purpose tier, serverless also provides an option to automatically pause the database during idle usage periods when only storage related costs are billed.  When workload activity returns, the database is automatically resumed.

Customers choosing to enable auto-pausing can specify the auto-pause delay as part of the serverless configuration.  The auto-pause delay is the length of time the database must be idle before auto-pausing.  The lower the auto-pause delay and the more frequently auto-pausing occurs, the greater the potential compute cost savings. 

Read on for the update in minimum auto-pause time.

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Fixing Missing SQL Agent Jobs Post-Migration

Published 2024-10-08 by Kevin Feasel

Lee Markum is looking for that lost shaker of SQL Agent jobs:

I’ve been doing migrations fairly continuously for the past 18 months. PowerShell has been my primary mechanism for many parts of the process, including copying jobs from the source SQL Server to the target. That has worked almost without incident each time. However, recently, an app team noticed that there were SQL Server Agent jobs missing on their new 2022 SQL Servers.  Because the first couple of missing jobs also existed on their Development environment, they were able to recreate those jobs in production. They naturally expressed concern that other jobs may be missing.

Read on for Lee’s process, including the solution.

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Announcements from the European Fabric Community Conference

Published 2024-10-08 by Kevin Feasel

James Serra brings tidings:

A TON of new features announcements at the European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference help last week. The full list is here, and I wanted to list my favorite announcements from that list:

  • Access Databricks Unity Catalog tables from Fabric (public preview): You can now access Databricks Unity Catalog tables directly from Fabric. In Fabric, you can now create a new data item called “Mirrored Azure Databricks Catalog”. When creating this item, you simply provide your Azure Databricks workspace URL and select the catalog you want to make available in Fabric. Rather than making a copy of the data, Fabric creates a shortcut for every table in the selected catalog. It also keeps the Fabric data item in sync. So, if a table is added or removed from UC, the change is automatically reflected in Fabric. Once your Azure Databricks Catalog item is created, it behaves the same as any other item in Fabric. Seamlessly access tables through the SQL endpoint, utilize Spark with Fabric notebooks and take full advantage of Direct La

Read on for the rest of what James found exciting.

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