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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 recommend it over the HDInsight solution described below. The TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council) provides tools for generating the benchmarking data, but using them to generate big data is not trivial, and would take a very long time on modest hardware....

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....