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Enable Azure Subscription after deactivation

On completion of the first 30 days of Microsoft Azure’s free trial, your ‘Free Trial’ Azure Subscription will be disabled. To fix this, the subscription needs to be changed to the ‘Pay-As-You-Go’ p...

Posted by thebernardlim on March 26, 2021

DataTable JQuery Plugin - "DataTable is not a function" error

An alternative solution to "DataTable is not a function" error

I came across this problem recently when I was trying to use the jQuery DataTable plugin for tables in one of my webpages. Error: “$(…).DataTable is not a function” I was assuming it is supposedl...

Posted by thebernardlim on March 17, 2021

25 days of Serverless - Challenge 5

How to use Azure Cognitive Services to do sentiment analysis - Solution to Challenge 5

For Challenge #5 of the ‘25 days of Serverless’ challenge, we are to implement a solution to help Santa decide if each child is nice or naughty based on what he/she said. Solution For this soluti...

Posted by thebernardlim on August 25, 2020

Alibaba ACA Cloud Computing Certification Study Guide

My experience on how to pass the Alibaba ACA Cloud Computing Certification exam

Alibaba ACA Cloud Computing Certification Study Guide In my opinion, the ACA Cloud Computing certification will be the one of the best ways to get an introduction into Alibaba Cloud. It gives yo...

Posted by thebernardlim on August 21, 2020

25 days of Serverless - Challenge 3

Solution to 25 days of Serverless - Challenge 3

For Challenge #3 of the ‘25 days of Serverless’ challenge, we are to implement a solution to store images in a database if there is a ‘png’ image being pushed into a GitHub repo. Solution As per ...

Posted by thebernardlim on June 7, 2020

Azure Data Factory - Run single instance of pipeline at a time

Article showing how to run only a single instance of a pipeline at a time

I recently faced this scenario where I noticed there were multiple instances of my pipeline running concurrently. The reason this happened was because the runtime of my pipeline exceeded that of my...

Posted by thebernardlim on May 7, 2020

25 days of Serverless - Challenge 2

Solution to 25 days of Serverless - Challenge 2

For Challenge #2 of the ‘25 days of Serverless’ challenge, we are to implement a solution to send Lucy reminders regarding coffee-making steps and candle-lighting at various times accordingly. I d...

Posted by thebernardlim on April 21, 2020

Azure Data Factory - How to connect to Azure File Storage?

Steps to show how to connect to Azure File Storage / Share in Azure Data Factory

When trying to use Azure File Storage as a source in Azure Data Factory, you might wonder where you would get the credentials to connect to Azure File Storage in Data Factory. Here are the steps: ...

Posted by thebernardlim on March 7, 2020

Azure Job Scheduling Options for Azure SQL DB

Article showing/comparing a list of Azure services we can use for scheduling jobs required for Azure SQL database

We recently were faced with a request to run SQL scripts (stored procedures) for an Azure SQL Database on schedule. Naturally, SQL Job Agents came into my mind. However, Azure SQL Single Databases...

Posted by thebernardlim on February 28, 2020

Azure Data Factory - Removing Triggers without Errors

Removing triggers from ADF pipelines without errors

In the ‘Author’ page, if you attempt to remove triggers by clicking on ‘Trigger’ button, there might be a change you would attempt to click on ‘X’ next to the trigger you want to delete, i.e. trigg...

Posted by thebernardlim on February 23, 2020

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