Azure Storage, Streaming, and Batch Analytics

9 Integrating with Azure Data Lake Analytics

This chapter covers

• Using Azure Cognitive Services to enhance data

• Building user-defined functions using Visual Studio and C#

• Connecting to remote data sources

In the last chapter, you learned how to use Azure Data Lake Analytics (ADLA) to build reusable objects. You also used C# to enhance, and sometimes replace, the functions of SQL. In this chapter, you’ll build on that by adding features to improve your U-SQL scripts. You’ll use the Data Lake store to serve assembly files for use in ADLA jobs. You’ll run Azure PowerShell and U-SQL scripts to modify the ADLA and Data Lake environments. You’ll add new types of data extraction classes to ADLA, and add C# functions for modifying data. You’ll ...