Kyle Valade

This is a post I wrote for work to explain the basics and foundations of ad tracking. It was meant for a fairly nontechnical audience, so »

I'm using PyODBC to connect to DB2 and was seeing some problems saving certain rows of data. The column the error message mentioned was a CLOB »

This is kind of a sister post to my Databricks-specific post from the other day. It's amazing how much time you can spend searching through docs, »

This took me a good few hours to figure out. So hopefully it will help you and my future self. install com.ibm.db2.jcc:db2jcc: »

In one of my Django projects, I'm connecting to a SQL server database, and I'm doing this with django-pyodbc-azure. I noticed that my query performance was »

I've been testing out Azure Web App services lately so I can avoid all of the reverse proxy/server management mumbo jumbo. When I was deploying »

This is a follow-up and brutal takedown of a post I wrote about two years ago. Go here for part I. I'm starting to use Django »

I want to calculate the YTD total for the last couple years for every customer + product combination that has been sold. I'm new to Pandas and »

Another fairly easy thing that I couldn't find in the docs. I wanted to be able to upload a directory into my Databricks Workspace from my »

This is actually really easy, but not something spelled out explicitly in the Databricks docs, though it is mentioned in the Spark docs. Alas, SQL server »

It's kind of a trick title, but here's the answer: don't. Just don't do it. Python is no good here - you might as well drop »

I couldn't find anything that laid this out really plainly, so I'm going to do so here. I'll update as I learn more and dig deeper, »

I was getting this error message when trying to sign into Azure Active Directory in a .Net Core 2.x app. It was written by someone »

When I started using .NET Core this time around, I was pleasantly surprised. But over the past couple of days, I have been unpleasantly surprised. There »

Say I have a controller and I want it to pull something from Amazon. Say that I also have unit tests and I don't want to »

There are a few ways to manage environment-specific configuration in the new version of .NET Core, and those ways are much better documented than I remember »

These notes are more for personal use, so sorry for any incoherence :P. But maybe someone will find them helpful, even if UWP apps have been »

The odds were against me: The documentation is a little slim. I haven't been paying attention to the javascript universe for 6 months. But I have »

I'm making a visual to display a single KPI with some data, similar to Card with States - no graphs or anything fancy. To get started, »

Update as of 2019-10-16: This is pretty outdated and all of the issues are not difficult to solve. I recommend reading my new posts here for »