Generate Big Datasets with Hive in HDInsight

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Update 2020-05-29: Generate Big Datasets with Databricks I authored a post on the BlueGranite site on how to generate big datasets with Databricks. This is a more modern approach to generating the same TPC-DS benchmark datasets, and I’d recommend it over the HDInsight solution described below. This post describes how to generate big datasets with Hive in HDInsight, specifically TPC-DS benchmarking datasets. There are many tools for generating sample data, and this one is particularly nice due to its familiarity and ability to generate massive datasets up to 100 terabytes in size. The intended purpose of TPC data is for benchmarking purposes, but big sampleRead More →

Call an Azure Function from Power BI

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This post shows how to call an Azure Function from Power BI. This scenario offers some interesting possibilities, because it allows for integrating the power of several common programming languages with Power BI and Power Query. If you’re not familiar with Azure Functions, it’s a service that allows you to run small pieces of code without having to deal with a server. In this example, we’ll write a query in Power BI that submits a time zone to an Azure Function. The function simply returns the current time in the specified time zone. While this is a very basic example, it is important because itRead More →