Category: ACL and POSIX Security Model

Azure SQL Database– Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification

This product is on the other side of the cloud service spectrum when compared to SQL Server on Azure VMs. An Azure SQL Database (SQL DB) is a relational DBaaS that offers not only the outsourcing of network and hardware infrastructure, but also operating system and DBMS responsibilities. All you need to worry about is…

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Reporting and Monitoring – Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification

Since Azure AD is the place where most of your authentication and authorization activities will happen, it is very important to have some tools to make sure all is working. If you see in the audit logs that many of your employees are failing to be authenticated because of IP location, you might want to…

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Blob Storage – Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification

If you need to store files such as JSON, XML, DOCX, MP3, PDF, or any other kind of file, then use Blob Storage. Blob Storage implements a flat namespace for organizing data, in contrast to the hierarchical namespace organization that comes with ADLS Gen2. Although you can create folders and place files within them when…

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Azure Storage – Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification

Azure Storage is a suite of modern storage solutions, all of which are massively scalable, secure, reliant, and accessible. When you need one of the offered Azure Storage services, you create what is called an Azure Storage Account. The storage account is where you can choose certain attributes that apply to all the services within…

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Azure Event Hubs – Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification

Azure Event Hubs is an endpoint for ingesting data at high‐scale frequencies. There are numerous ways to move data into a datastore, such as by creating a connection to a database via code running on a website or within a client application. The problem with that approach is that databases typically have a limit on…

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Azure Stream Analytics – Gaining the Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification

Azure Stream Analytics can be used to analyze data flowing in from an IoT device or from any other numerous kinds of message producers. Event Hubs and IoT Hubs are what you use to ingest those messages at scale. Those messages are placed into a queue and then processed by a consumer that has subscribed…

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