4 Azure Data Lake Storage

This chapter covers

  • Setting up a Data Lake store

  • Configuring file access in Data Lake Storage

  • Understanding and planning for data drift

In the last chapter, you learned how to work with a fundamental Azure service, the Storage account. Storage accounts provide nearly unlimited storage for many Azure services, with high throughput and high redundancy. Storage accounts also host other file-based services, such as file shares and queues.

In this chapter, you’ll learn about another storage service, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS). You’ll create a Data Lake store and learn how to structure your data lake to increase maintainability and security. You’ll learn how this service supports other Azure services through ...

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