Reference data streams with Azure Stream Analytics
Reference data can be static or finite datasets which are slowly modifying, executed to perform a lookup, or joining/correlating input data streams of Azure Stream Analytics. Reference data streams supported by Azure Blob storage have a limit of 100 MB per Blob, but each Stream Analytics job can execute multiple Blobs with appropriate path patterns simultaneously. Reference data Blobs support a collection of file streams by partitioning through the same date/time identifiers as the name of the Blob. Each Blob is concatenated at the end of the Blob collection sequence, by specifying a date/time identifier greater than the last modified Blob in the sequence.
Configuration of Reference data for Azure Stream Analytics jobs
In order to configure the reference data stream for an Azure Stream Analytics job, the static dataset needs to be uploaded first as reference data to the Azure Block Blob storage, using Azure SDK/CLI/PowerShell/Azure Portal...