Every month Microsoft announces hundreds of new features, capabilities, and services across the Microsoft cloud platforms – Azure, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft 365. We boil it down to what is most important and share them via our monthly newsletter. Here is #5 for February of 2021.
Spark 3.0 support is now natively available for SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. The open-source connector is available through Maven and allows Spark jobs to be connected as inputs or outputs from SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. The connector supports Scala, Python, and R and includes support for Basic Authentication, Active Directory Key Tab, and Azure Active Directory. Details on the new connector can be found here: Read More +