Technical requirements
In case you haven’t yet, make sure you download this book’s material from the GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learn-Azure-Synapse-Data-Explorer. You can download the full repository by selecting Code, and then Download ZIP, or by cloning the repository by using your git client of choice. This chapter uses a version of the fleet data
table, but we will create it and ingest some data for this chapter, so don’t worry about creating it at this time.
In this chapter, we will go back to data ingestion for a quick example of how we can tag extents at the time of data ingestion. Later, we will use this data to move extents around and perform a data purge operation. This ingestion uses the simplified drone telemetry dataset, which needs to be copied to a container on your ADLS Gen2 storage account before we can use it. If you don’t have this file on your storage account yet, make sure you follow the steps provided...