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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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Stairway to Synapse Analytics

Level 2 of the Stairway to Synapse Analytics: Analyze Data in Storage Account using the Serverless SQL pool

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In this second level of the Stairway to Synapse, we learn how to create external tables and query data that is stored in our data storage using the serverless pool.

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