Methods for Exploring Azure Data Lake

TimeXtender Tuesdays - Episode 12

In this TimeXtender Tuesdays session, we demonstrate methods for exploring Azure Data Lake. If you'd like to review previous TimeXtender Tuesdays sessions, check out our TimeXtender Tuesday playlist on YouTube.

Azure Data Lake is an ideal ODX storage for it's cost and performance, as well as it's ubiquitous integration with Azure resources. There are multiple ways to view the data stored in Azure Data Lake (ADLS Gen2) and we'll focus on two in this session.

• Using Serverless SQL Pool (in Synapse)
• Using SQL Server Management Studio

Mentioned in this Video (links):

• Query ODX Parquet files with Azure Synapse Workspace
• Microsoft: Serverless SQL pool in Azure Synapse Analytics
• Microsoft: Best Practices for Serverless SQL Pool
• Microsoft: Cost management for Serverless SQL Pool

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