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Creating and Managing Data in Azure Data Lake
Azure Data Lake is a highly scalable and durable object-based cloud storage solution from Microsoft. It is optimized to store large amounts of structured and semi-structured data such as logs, application data, and documents.
Azure Data Lake can be used as a data source and destination in data engineering projects. As a source, it can be used to stage structured or semi-structured data. As a destination, it can be used to store the result of a data pipeline.
Azure Data Lake is provisioned as a storage account in Azure, capable of storing files (blobs), tables, or queues. This book will focus on Azure Data Lake storage accounts used for storing blobs/files
In this chapter, we will learn how to provision, ...
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