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Published inApr 2021
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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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Implementing a Data Lake Analytics U-SQL activity

Azure Data Lake Analytics is an on-demand analytics service that allows you to process data using R, Python, and U-SQL without provisioning any infrastructure. All we need to do is to upload the data onto Data Lake, provision the Data Lake Analytics account, and run U-SQL to process the data.

In this recipe, we'll implement a Data Lake Analytics U-SQL activity to calculate total sales by country from the orders data stored in the Data Lake store.

Getting ready

To get started, do the following:

  1. Log in to https://portal.azure.com using your Azure credentials.
  2. Open a new PowerShell prompt. Execute the Connect-AzAccount command to log in to your Azure account from PowerShell.
  3. You will need an existing Data Factory account. If you don't have one, create one by executing the ~/azure-data-engineering-cookbook\Chapter04\3_CreatingAzureDataFactory.ps1 PowerShell script.

How to do it…

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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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