Azure Data Lake Analytics - Accessing External Data Sources with USQL

This video discusses the way of accessing external data sources such as Azure SQL Database with USQL as external data sets. It explains why we need it, what objects should be created for accessing external sources and how external data can be accessed in USQL codes.

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Introduction to Azure Data Lake Analytics - and basics of U-SQL

I made another video on Azure Data Lake, specifically on Azure Data Lake Analytics. This is a 40-minutes video and it discusses following items along with demonstrations;

• What is Azure Data Lake Analytics
• Data Lake Architecture and how it works
• Comparison between Azure Data Lake Analytics, HDInsight and Hadoop for processing Big Data.
• What is U-SQL and basics of it.
• Demo on How to create an Azure Data Lake Analytics account
• Demo on How to execute a simple U-SQL using Azure Portal
• Demo on How to extract multiple files, transform using C# methods and referenced assembly, making multiple results with bit complex transformations using Visual Studio.

Here is the video.