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...