Microsoft Fabric (Azure Synapse, Data Engineering, etc.)

Stairway to Synapse Analytics

Level 4 of the Stairway to Synapse Analytics: Create and Use a Delta Lake

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Introduction In Level 1 of this series, I discussed Synapse Analytics basics and the steps for creating the Synapse Workspace. In Level 2, we analyzed Data Lake files using the Serverless SQL Pool. In Level 3, we analyzed Data Lake files using the Spark Pool. In Levels 4 and level 5, I will discuss the Delta […]

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2025-06-06 (first published: )

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The Decoded Value

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