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Azure Data Explorer using Kusto Query Language
The Kusto Query Language Basics [GCast 119] tutorial introduces the fundamentals of KQL within Azure Data Explorer, covering data manipulation, filtering, sorting, and aggregation. The video demonstrates essential commands like take, where, project, and summarize, along with the explain keyword for translating SQL to KQL. Click on the link below for a quick introduction. Kusto Query Language Basics [GCast 119] - YouTube

David Giard
Jun 101 min read


Data Warehouse vs. Data Lakehouse
The video explores the fundamental differences between Lakehouses and Data Warehouses, highlighting how Lakehouses merge elements of data lakes and warehouses to support both structured and unstructured data, enabling diverse processing workloads such as batch processing, streaming, and machine learning. Utilizing cloud storage for scalability and flexibility, Lakehouses provide a unified platform for various data types. In contrast, Data Warehouses are specifically designed

David Giard
Jun 101 min read


Best Practices for Building a Reliable Lakehouse
This is a practical playbook for building a production-grade data lakehouse. It walks through foundational principles — naming conventions, least-privilege access, automated CI/CD testing — before diving into medallion architecture. Furthermore, metadata-driven design patterns show how configuration tables and dynamic notebook orchestration eliminates hard-coded pipelines.

Bill Donofrio
May 301 min read
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