1. Azure Data Explorer Mike Diehl Bringing Visibility to the Data Lake
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4. Also, it can query files in a data lake.
Azure Data Explorer
“…is a fast, fully managed data analytics service for real-time analysis on large volumes of data streaming from applications, websites, IoT devices, and more.“ --
Also, it can query files in a data lake.

6. Files of Unknown Business Value

7. Data Lakes in Azure Storage
Azure Storage Account
Container
Blob, table, queue
Blobs
Binary content
Name (includes folder)

8. Provisioning Azure Data Explorer
Create cluster
Name, region
Compute size ($)
No charge if paused

9. Provisioning Azure Data Explorer
Create database

10. Learn to query for free!

11. Defining external tables
.create external table TestTable ( TimeStamp:datetime, Name:string, Metric:int, Source:string ) kind=blob dataformat=csv ( with includeHeaders="all", fileExtension="csv"

12. Helpful documentation
External table commands
Connection strings for storage accounts
Tricky to get this right
If your account isn’t ADLSgen2, the above is wrong 

13. Kusto Tutorial

14. Demo

15. Evaluations