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Published inJul 2021
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Patrik Borosch
Patrik Borosch
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Patrik Borosch

Patrik Borosch is a cloud solution architect for data and AI at Microsoft Switzerland GmbH. He has more than 25 years of BI and analytics development, engineering, and architecture experience and is a Microsoft Certified Data Engineer and a Microsoft Certified AI Engineer. Patrik has worked on numerous significant international data warehouse, data integration, and big data projects. Through this, he has built and extended his experience in all facets, from requirements engineering to data modeling and ETL, all the way to reporting and dashboarding. At Microsoft Switzerland, he supports customers in their journey into the analytical world of the Azure Cloud.
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Setting up your Cloud Big Data Storage

When you want Azure Data Lake to provision a service within your Azure subscription and you search for it, you will find a service with that exact name. We are not going to use that service, as it is the Generation 1 version of Data Lake Storage and is only there for continuity reasons.

Microsoft added the Data Lake Store Gen2 in kind of a hidden fashion. As this new version of the Data Lake is based on the standard Azure storage account, you will provision it exactly like that: an Azure storage account with an option set for Azure Data Lake Gen2 or, even better, with the Hierarchical Namespace enabled. We will look at this option shortly.

Provisioning a standard storage account instead

When you examine the Azure storage account limits, you might ask yourself, why should I go for a Data Lake Store when the standard Storage Account already has these wide volume boundaries and possibilities?

Well, the standard storage account has it...

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Published in: Jul 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800562936

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Patrik Borosch

Patrik Borosch is a cloud solution architect for data and AI at Microsoft Switzerland GmbH. He has more than 25 years of BI and analytics development, engineering, and architecture experience and is a Microsoft Certified Data Engineer and a Microsoft Certified AI Engineer. Patrik has worked on numerous significant international data warehouse, data integration, and big data projects. Through this, he has built and extended his experience in all facets, from requirements engineering to data modeling and ETL, all the way to reporting and dashboarding. At Microsoft Switzerland, he supports customers in their journey into the analytical world of the Azure Cloud.
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