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Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification Guide

You're reading from   Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification Guide Ace the DP-203 exam with advanced data engineering skills

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805124689
Length 548 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Giacinto Palmieri Giacinto Palmieri
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Preface 1. Part 1: Azure Basics FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Azure Basics 3. Part 2: Data Storage
4. Chapter 2: Implementing a Partition Strategy 5. Chapter 3: Designing and Implementing the Data Exploration Layer 6. Part 3:Data Processing
7. Chapter 4: Ingesting and Transforming Data 8. Chapter 5: Developing a Batch Processing Solution 9. Chapter 6: Developing a Stream Processing Solution 10. Chapter 7: Managing Batches and Pipelines 11. Part 4:Secure, Monitor, and Optimize Data Storage and Processing
12. Chapter 8: Implementing Data Security 13. Chapter 9: Monitoring Data Storage and Data Processing 14. Chapter 10: Optimizing and Troubleshooting Data Storage and Data Processing 15. Chapter 11: Accessing the Online Practice Resources 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Designing a Partition Strategy for Files

The Azure Storage services are generic and very flexible when it comes to partitioning. You can implement whatever partition logic you want using the same Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that are publicly available. There are no special APIs or features available for partitioning. With that background, you’ll now explore the partitioning options available in Azure Blob Storage and ADLS Gen2 in the following sections.

Note

This section primarily focuses on the Implement a partition strategy for files concept of the DP-203: Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure exam.

Azure Blob Storage

Azure Blob Storage is a popular Azure service used for storing data in folders as blobs, regardless of the content or file structure. This feature makes it suitable for storing raw data, commonly used as a source for future data transformations.

In Azure Blob Storage, you first create Azure Storage...

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