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Cloud Scale Analytics with Azure Data Services

You're reading from   Cloud Scale Analytics with Azure Data Services Build modern data warehouses on Microsoft Azure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562936
Length 520 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Data Warehousing and Considerations Regarding Cloud Computing
2. Chapter 1: Balancing the Benefits of Data Lakes Over Data Warehouses FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Connecting Requirements and Technology 4. Section 2: The Storage Layer
5. Chapter 3: Understanding the Data Lake Storage Layer 6. Chapter 4: Understanding Synapse SQL Pools and SQL Options 7. Section 3: Cloud-Scale Data Integration and Data Transformation
8. Chapter 5: Integrating Data into Your Modern Data Warehouse 9. Chapter 6: Using Synapse Spark Pools 10. Chapter 7: Using Databricks Spark Clusters 11. Chapter 8: Streaming Data into Your MDWH 12. Chapter 9: Integrating Azure Cognitive Services and Machine Learning 13. Chapter 10: Loading the Presentation Layer 14. Section 4: Data Presentation, Dashboarding, and Distribution
15. Chapter 11: Developing and Maintaining the Presentation Layer 16. Chapter 12: Distributing Data 17. Chapter 13: Introducing Industry Data Models 18. Chapter 14: Establishing Data Governance 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up your Cloud Big Data Storage

When you want Azure Data Lake to provision a service within your Azure subscription and you search for it, you will find a service with that exact name. We are not going to use that service, as it is the Generation 1 version of Data Lake Storage and is only there for continuity reasons.

Microsoft added the Data Lake Store Gen2 in kind of a hidden fashion. As this new version of the Data Lake is based on the standard Azure storage account, you will provision it exactly like that: an Azure storage account with an option set for Azure Data Lake Gen2 or, even better, with the Hierarchical Namespace enabled. We will look at this option shortly.

Provisioning a standard storage account instead

When you examine the Azure storage account limits, you might ask yourself, why should I go for a Data Lake Store when the standard Storage Account already has these wide volume boundaries and possibilities?

Well, the standard storage account has it...

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