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This Week I Learned - *  Applications you can run in a cross-cloud configuration between Azure & Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) include : - E-Business Suite - JD Edwards EnterpriseOne - PeopleSoft - Oracle Retail applications - Oracle Hyperion Financial Management *  AZ-500 Exam Study Guide * Unified data analytics is a concept that combines data engineering, data science and business intelligence. Databricks Unified Analytics Platform is composed of: 1) A collaborative data science workspace with BI integrations 2) A unified data service for high quality data storage and performance 3) An enterprise cloud service for a secure and scalable infrastructure. The Databricks Runtime is a data processing engine built on a highly optimized version of Apache Spark by the original creators of Apache Spark. * Microsoft encourages customers currently using or evaluating Machine Learning Studio (classic) to try Azure Machine Learning designer (preview) , which p...

The easy way to get movie scripts and lyrics of songs is to get them straight from the internet through websites dedicated offering them. If a transcript is not available as the movie is new or it does not have a large audience or the quality of the English or desired language subtitles of a foreign language movie isn't up to the mark, here is a way to get it yourself. There are a good number of streaming sites now that provide better subtitles (especially for foreign language moves) than just auto-generated captions to differentiate their premium offerings. Using the Network tab of browser Developer Tools, get the subtitles file while the movie is playing. While there are a variety of subtitle file formats such as srt, stl, scc, ass, ssa, xml, ttml, qt, txt, vtt, dfxp, smi, csv, sub, rt, sbv, the most commonly used file formats preferred by streaming sites have vtt or ttml in the file extension. Once you get hold of the transcript, you'll notice that it has a lot of...

This Week I Learned - * Azure Bastion service enables you to securely and seamlessly RDP & SSH to your VMs in Azure virtual network, without the need of public IP on the VM, directly from the Azure portal, and without the need of any additional client/agent or any piece of software. Once you provision an Azure Bastion service in your virtual network, the seamless RDP/SSH experience is available to all your VMs in the same virtual network. * Azure ML Designer - No-code machine learning solution that is part of Azure ML Studio * Azure Machine Learning Algorithm Cheat Sheet helps you choose the right algorithm from the designer for a predictive analytics model -  http://aka.ms/AlgorithmCheatSheet *  Data Migration Assistant assesses databases for readiness to move to Azure and recommends target SKUs. Database Migration Service migrates databases to Azure at scale. SQL Server Migration Assistant assesses and migrates databases from other database management systems to...