Section 1: Data Warehousing and Considerations Regarding Cloud Computing

This section will examine the question of whether data warehouses are still required given the rise of the enterprise data lake and provides a brief overview of the trends and development on the market of data and AI. As cloud computing adds flexible and scalable services to AI, there are no more limits in terms of source formats and volumes that can be processed for AI requirements, and given that AI and machine learning are on everybody's mind at the moment, the book attempts to ask what all this entails and where we are heading. In addition, we'll take a technology-agnostic look at the components that make up a successful analytical system. From an agnostic viewpoint, we will try to find the right Azure services to build a modern data warehouse.

This section comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Balancing the Benefits of Data Lakes over Data Warehouses
• Chapter 2, Connecting Requirements...