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Build a Jar file for the Apache Spark SQL and Azure SQL Server Connector Using SBT.

The Apache Spark Azure SQL Connector is a huge upgrade to the built-in JDBC Spark connector. It is more than 15x faster than generic JDBC connector for writing to SQL Server. In this short post, I articulate the steps required … Continue reading

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Thoughts on the Meltdown and Spectre Processor Vulnerabilities.

Summary: A new class of security vulnerabilities referred to as “Speculative execution side-channel attacks” also known as “Meltdown and Spectre” were publicly disclosed by Cyber security researchers this week. Given the gravity of these flaws, many concerns have been rightly … Continue reading

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How to Customize Exchange 2010 RBAC Roles for Delegating User/Contact Management Part 2.

As a follow up to the last post, I decided to further restrict the Support Staff users’ access to the available Custom ‘Address Book Management’ Role cmdlets. The following commands enabled me accomplish this objective: 1) C:\>Get-ManagementRoleEntry -Identity “Address Book … Continue reading

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