To effectively use the massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture with a SQL pool, you need to understand table geometries. Table geometries specify how data is sharded into distributions on your existing compute nodes. These table…
Anyone who has worked with computers, even for a short amount of time, knows that unexpected events happen. You can track this down all the way to the 3.3V of electricity required to flip a…
EXAM DP‐203 OBJECTIVES COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER: WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER: The primary objective of Chapter 3, “Data Sources and Ingestion,” was to explain the sources of data and the Azure products…
As shown in Table 3.20, the built‐in functions are further categorized into groups such as aggregate, analytic, conversion, date, mathematical, and windowing. TABLE 3.20 Azure Stream Analytics built‐in functions Type Functions Aggregate AVG, COUNT, MIN,…
FIGUER 3.78 Provisioning an Azure Stream Analytics job Consider testing the connection from the Azure Stream Analytics job and the event hub by pressing the Test menu option on the Input blade. The configuration of…
The example of combining multiple data files into a single table for analysis in Exercise 3.15 simply appended one file onto the next. This required you to remove and re‐create the table. Instead of dropping…
Streaming, batching, and querying data are all very performant and reliable activities when using delta tables. This means if your data analytics solution requires streaming or batching, the approach for ingesting, transforming, and serving is…
There are many scenarios where the timestamp of a message/event is critical to the success of an application or business process. Consider a banking transaction that applies credits and debits to an account in the…
Figure 3.75 shows how data is ingested into Azure Databricks. There are numerous ways to ingest data, including by streaming via Event Hubs, Stream Analytics, or Kafka, or by copying data from a remote source…
The Users page provides a list of users who have access to the workspace. The role and permissions of each user are rendered as well. Table 3.18 describes the permissions (i.e., entitlements). TABLE 3.18 Azure…