Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "In the following example, when looking at the rows where the state is NORTH CAROLINA, all the columns other than State and duration will be empty since the NCEvents table only has the State and duration columns."

A block of code is set as follows:

let FLEvents = StormEvents
| where State == "FLORIDA";
let NCEvents = StormEvents
| where State == "NORTH CAROLINA"
| project State, duration = EndTime - StartTime;
NCEvents | union FLEvents

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "To run the samples for this chapter, you will need to expand the Samples logs on the left-hand side of the screen and then select StormEvents."

Any command line input or output is written as follows:

StormEvents
| distinct State
| order by State asc

Tips or Important Notes

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