Ed Elliott

Jan 21, 2025 | irishexaminer.com | Ed Elliott

Captain Caelan Doris acknowledges back-to-back champions Ireland must improve and evolve in order to continue their recent domination of the Guinness Six Nations. Ireland are bidding to become the first country to lift the title three years in a row since the tournament was expanded in 2000. Interim boss Simon Easterby will oversee this year’s championship challenge after head coach Andy Farrell temporarily stepped aside to focus on leading this summer’s British and Irish Lions tour of Australia.

Dec 2, 2024 | thesun.ie | Ed Elliott

JOE McCARTHY is determined to join boss Andy Farrell on next summer’s Lions Tour after his breakthrough year for Ireland. After a peripheral role at last autumn’s World Cup, McCarthy announced himself at Test level with an explosive Six Nations debut against France in February and went on to start each of Ireland’s 11 matches in 2024.

Nov 16, 2024 | sqlservercentral.com | Ed Elliott

All Spark Connect PostsIntroduction There have been quite a few changes in the last couple of months and I just wanted to give a quick update on the current state of the project. In terms of usage I am starting to hear from people using the library and submitting pr’s and requests so although usage is pretty low (which is expected from the fact that the Microsoft supported version usage wasn’t very high) it is growing which is interesting. Original post (opens in new tab)

Oct 12, 2024 | sqlservercentral.com | Ed Elliott

All Spark Connect PostsI recently published the latest version of the Spark Connect Dotnet library which includes support for the new Variant data type in Apache Spark 4.0 here. One of the new features of Spark 4.0 is the Variant data type which is a faster way of processing Json data (see here). Sample data For this post I used a copy of the sample data from Adobe (https://opensource.adobe.com/Spry/samples/data_region/JSONDataSetSample.html). Original post (opens in new tab)

Aug 31, 2024 | msn.com | Ed Elliott

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