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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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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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 Partition Strategy for Analytical Workloads

The syllabus of the DP-203 exam is heavily skewed towards analytical workloads, as opposed to transactional workloads. While the latter is concerned with the creation, updating, or deletion of live production data, the former is concerned with trying to extract meaningful lessons from historical data (which mainly deals with data that is read only). The primary objective is to extract insights from historical data with data refresh and transformation activities for analytical purposes. In this context, the term “historical” could mean data from just last month or even last week.

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

There are three main types of partition strategies for analytical workloads. These are as follows:

  • Horizontal partitioning (also known as sharding)
  • Vertical...
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