(Cross Post) Processing IIS ETW events using Azure Stream Analytics
Are you looking for an easy way to process Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) logs? Well, I just came across this excellent blog post by Tomas Restrepo. Here Thomas talks about how easily you can collect...
View ArticleNew Language Features: LAST function, new Array and Record functions
We are pleased to share several updates to the Azure Stream Analytics query language included in today’s Azure update. LAST functionWe have added the new analytics function LAST, which enables you to...
View ArticleQuery Pattern of the Week: Find the duration of a condition
To increase familiarity with the Stream Analytics Query Language, we are kicking off a blog series that will feature a new query pattern every week from Common Stream Analytics Query Patterns. In...
View ArticleWorking with complex data types in Azure Stream Analytics
Azure Stream Analytics supports processing events in a variety of data formats (CSV, JSON, Avro).JSON and Avro can contain complex types such as nested objects (records) or arrays. Many Stream...
View ArticleQuery Pattern of the Week: Specify logic for different cases
Last week we kicked off a new blog series to highlight a query pattern with a real world example every week. This week we examine how to use CASE statements to specify conditional logic. For more...
View Article(Cross Post) Refreshing reference data with Azure Data Factory for Azure...
Since we introduced the refresh capability of our Reference Data, we had been seeing a lot of asks on how the reference data could be created on a particular schedule. Some customers have used SSIS on...
View ArticleNew: Support for Power BI Groups and Documentation Updates
As the fall begins to kick into high gear, we are excited to have another great new feature to share with you today: Support for pushing output from your Stream Analytics job to Power BI Groups,...
View ArticleAzure Stream Analytics @ The First Ever Cortana Analytics Workshop!
The Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) team was proud to be a part of the first ever Cortana Analytics Workshop that was held September 10-11, 2015. The 2-day event was sold out, we had around 700 attendees,...
View ArticleQuery Pattern of the Week: Send data to multiple outputs
Have you checked out our team’s collection of Common Stream Analytics Query Patterns? This location acts as a repository for query patterns commonly used by our customers. One pattern that frequently...
View ArticleStream Analytics updates for the Azure IoT Suite
Today Microsoft announced the availability of the Azure IoT Suite, a collection of preconfigured solutions that enable you to easily develop, deploy, and scale your Internet of Things solutions.Stream...
View ArticleQuery Pattern of the Week: Use expressions inside a TIMESTAMP BY clause
Azure Stream Analytics allows expressing complex event processing rules using a simple SQL-like query language. Given the temporal nature of Stream Analytics queries, it is important to specify a...
View Article(Cross Post) Azure Stream Analytics and DocumentDB for your IoT application
Support for output to Azure DocumentDB from Stream Analytics jobs has been highly requested by customers and was the top-voted idea on the Azure Feedback Forum. Stream Analytics and DocumentDB are...
View ArticleSending and consuming events in Avro format
Azure Stream Analytics currently supports three formats for input event serialization: Avro, CSV and JSON. This blog post will demonstrate how to send events to an input source in the Avro format, to...
View ArticleVMob's cool retail sales boosting IoT solution
We are very excited to share an interesting solution built by one of our customers VMob . New Zealand-based VMob is harnessing IoT to help McDonald’s transform its customer engagement in the...
View ArticleHow do I transform incoming events using Stream Analytics?
Question: The data that arrives from the devices will have the format Time, Id, P1, P2, P3. Can this be transformed using SA to the other/vertical format and stored to SQL? This interesting question...
View ArticleTumbling, Sliding and Hopping Windows with Azure Streaming
I found these series of posts by @DesertIsleSQL very well written describing Tumbling, Sliding and Hopping Window functions in Azure Streaming queries.Incorporating Azure Streaming Analytics with Azure...
View ArticleStream Analytics query to check when no data has arrived from a given device...
Paolo Salvatori describes well here how you might write a stream analytics query to check when no data has arrived from a given device in a configurable time window. To solve this problem, the idea is...
View ArticleQuerying JSON array with Azure Stream Analytics
Kent Weare has written a nice post on querying Json array with Azure Stream Analytics. He is getting device reads off of an Azure Event Hub. These reads are being aggregated on the publisher side and...
View ArticleHello "Toll" - Toll Booth tutorial to ramp you up on Azure Stream Analytics
A tolling station is a common phenomenon – we encounter them in many expressways, bridges, and tunnels across the world. Each toll station has multiple toll booths, which may be manual – meaning that...
View ArticleNotify users of data received from sensors or other systems
How many times have you gone to a vending machine, just to find that the one snack bar you wanted out of the 50,000 things in the machine has run out? If you are really hungry you could kick the...
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