MEAPSA

Use Delta Lake in Azure Synapse Analytics

Delta Lake is an open source relational storage area for Spark that you can use to implement a data lakehouse architecture in Azure Synapse Analytics.

Data Engineer

Synapse Analytics

Module Objectives

In this module, you'll learn how to:

Describe core features and capabilities of Delta Lake.
Create and use Delta Lake tables in a Synapse Analytics Spark pool.
Create Spark catalog tables for Delta Lake data.
Use Delta Lake tables for streaming data.
Query Delta Lake tables from a Synapse Analytics SQL pool.

Units

Introduction min
Understand Delta Lake min
Create Delta Lake tables min
Create catalog tables min
Use Delta Lake with streaming data min
Use Delta Lake in a SQL pool min
Exercise - Use Delta Lake in Azure Synapse Analytics min
Knowledge check min
Summary min

Prerequisites

To get the best from this module, you will need existing knowledge of working with Spark pools in Azure Synapse Analytics. Consider completing the Analyze data with Apache Spark in Azure Synapse Analytics module first.