Summary

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Delta Lake is an increasingly used technology for large-scale data analytics where you need to combine the flexibility and scalability of a data lake with the transactional consistency and structure of a relational database.

In this module, you learned 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.

To learn more about using Delta Lake in Azure Synapse Analytics, see Linux Foundation Delta Lake overview in the Azure Synapse Analytics documentation.