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Published inApr 2021
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PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781800206557
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Ahmad Osama
Ahmad Osama
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Ahmad Osama

Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.
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Loading data into a SQL pool using PolyBase with T-SQL

PolyBase allows you to query external data in Hadoop, Azure Blob storage, or Azure Data Lake Storage from SQL Server using T-SQL. In this recipe, we'll import data from a CSV file in an Azure Data Lake Storage account into an Azure Synapse SQL pool using PolyBase.

Getting ready

Before you start, log in to Azure from PowerShell. To do this, execute the following command and follow the instructions to log in to Azure:

Connect-AzAccount

You need a Synapse SQL pool to perform the steps in the recipe. If you don't have an existing Synapse SQL pool, you can create one using the steps from the Provisioning and connecting to an Azure Synapse SQL pool using PowerShell recipe.

How to do it…

Follow the given steps to import data into Azure Synapse SQL using PolyBase:

  1. Execute the following command to create an Azure Data Lake Storage account and upload the data:
    #Create a new Azure Data Lake Storage...
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Published in: Apr 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800206557

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Ahmad Osama

Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.
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