Sliding windows produce an output when an event occurs. The following diagram illustrates this concept:
Stream Analytics
In the Stream Analytics example, by using a sliding window, we only receive a result when there are more than 100 messages over a 10-minute window. Unlike other methods that look at an exact window of time and show one message for that window, in sliding windows, we would receive a message on every input message. Another use of this would be to show a rolling average:
SELECT EventTime, Count(*) AS Count
FROM DeviceStream TIMESTAMP BY CreatedAt
GROUP by EventTime,
SlidingWindow(minutes, 10)
WHERE COUNT(*) > 100
