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Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification Guide

By : Newton Alex
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Azure Data Engineer Associate Certification Guide

By: Newton Alex

Overview of this book

Azure is one of the leading cloud providers in the world, providing numerous services for data hosting and data processing. Most of the companies today are either cloud-native or are migrating to the cloud much faster than ever. This has led to an explosion of data engineering jobs, with aspiring and experienced data engineers trying to outshine each other. Gaining the DP-203: Azure Data Engineer Associate certification is a sure-fire way of showing future employers that you have what it takes to become an Azure Data Engineer. This book will help you prepare for the DP-203 examination in a structured way, covering all the topics specified in the syllabus with detailed explanations and exam tips. The book starts by covering the fundamentals of Azure, and then takes the example of a hypothetical company and walks you through the various stages of building data engineering solutions. Throughout the chapters, you'll learn about the various Azure components involved in building the data systems and will explore them using a wide range of real-world use cases. Finally, you’ll work on sample questions and answers to familiarize yourself with the pattern of the exam. By the end of this Azure book, you'll have gained the confidence you need to pass the DP-203 exam with ease and land your dream job in data engineering.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Part 1: Azure Basics
3
Part 2: Data Storage
10
Part 3: Design and Develop Data Processing (25-30%)
15
Part 4: Design and Implement Data Security (10-15%)
17
Part 5: Monitor and Optimize Data Storage and Data Processing (10-15%)
20
Part 6: Practice Exercises

Upserting data

Upserting refers to the INSERT or UPDATE activity in a database or any analytical data store that supports it. We have already seen UPSERT as part of the batch activity, in the Upserting data section of Chapter 9, Designing and Developing a Batch Processing Solution. ASA supports UPSERT with CosmosDB. CosmosDB is a fully managed, globally distributed No-SQL database. We will learn more about CosmosDB in Chapter 14, Optimizing and Troubleshooting Data Storage and Data Processing, in the Implementing HTAP using Synapse Link and CosmosDB section.

ASA has two different behaviors based on the compatibility level that is set. ASA supports three different compatibility levels. You can think of compatibility levels as API versions. As and when ASA evolved, the compatibility levels increased. 1.0 was the first compatibility version, and 1.2 is the latest compatibility version. The main change in version 1.2 is the support for the AMQP messaging protocol.

You can set the...