Summary
With that, you have come to the end of the second chapter. In this chapter, you learned about the different partitioning techniques available in Azure. You started with the basics of partitioning and its benefits of partitioning, before moving on to partitioning techniques for storage and analytical workloads. You next explored the best practices to improve partitioning efficiency and performance and reviewed the concept of distribution tables and how they impact the partitioning of Azure Synapse Analytics. Finally, you studied storage limitations, which play an important role in deciding when to partition for ADLS Gen2.
This covers the syllabus for the Implement a Partition Strategy topic for the DP-203 exam. You will reinforce the learnings from this chapter via implementation details and tips in Chapter 6, Developing a Stream Processing Solution.
The next chapter, Chapter 3, Designing and Implementing the Data Exploration Layer, will explore the concepts of Azure Synapse...