U-SQL Cross Apply

UPDATE (19-01-2016):  Have a look at Azure Data Lake series for more posts on Azure Data Lake.

Azure Data Lake (both Storage & Analytics) has been in public preview for a month or two.

You can get started by reading this.

I thought I would kick some posts about more complex scenarios...

Registering assemblies in Azure Data Lake Analytics

UPDATE (19-01-2016):  Have a look at Azure Data Lake series for more posts on Azure Data Lake.

Azure Data Lake (both Storage & Analytics) has been in public preview for a month or two.

You can get started by reading this.

I thought I would kick some posts about more complex scenarios...

Azure Data Lake Analytics Quick Start

UPDATE (19-01-2016):  Have a look at Azure Data Lake series for more posts on Azure Data Lake.

Azure Data Lake (both Storage & Analytics) has been in public preview for a month or two.

It already has surprisingly good documentation:

• Overview of U-SQL ; walks you through diverse scenarios, ramping you...

Checkpoints in ETL

UPDATE (19-01-2016):  Have a look at Azure Data Lake series for more posts on Azure Data Lake.

Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) are so 2000’s.  But then again, they are more popular than ever!

On one hand, ETL are from an era where you didn’t care too much about real-time insights or couldn’t afford it because of technical limitation. ...

Using Network Security Groups (NSG) to secure network access to an environment

Quite a few demos (including mines) ommit security for the sake of simplicity.  One area where you can secure your applications in Azure is in terms of Networking.

Network Security Groups act as a firewall in the cloud.

In this post, I’ll show you how to create a virtual network with 3 subnets:  front-end, middle & back-end.  We’ll then secure...