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The Modern Data Warehouse in Azure: Building with Speed and Agility on Microsoft’s Cloud Platform
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The Modern Data Warehouse in Azure: Building with Speed and Agility on Microsoft’s Cloud Platform

by Matt How
June 2020
Intermediate to advanced
297 pages
6h 52m
English
Apress
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© Matt How 2020
M. HowThe Modern Data Warehouse in Azurehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5823-1_2

2. The SQL Engine

Matt How1 
(1)
Alton, UK
 

The focus of this chapter is to break open the mysteries of each SQL storage engine and understand why a particular flavor of Azure SQL technology suits one scenario over another. We will analyze the underlying architecture of each service so that development choices can be well informed and well reasoned. Once we understand how each implementation of the SQL engine in Azure processes and stores data, we can look at the direction Microsoft is taking that technology and forecast whether the same choice would be made in the future. The knowledge gained in this chapter should provide you with the capability to ...

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