You've got a bunch of CSV files and you've heard of Parquet. How do you convert them for Azure Synapse Analytics? Patrick shows you how using pySpark.
Converting CSV files to Parquet format using pySpark in Azure Synapse Analytics is a great way to improve the performance of your data pipeline and reduce storage costs. Parquet is a column-oriented data storage format that is optimized for analytics. It is more efficient than CSV in terms of storage and processing time.
The process of converting CSV to Parquet using pySpark in Azure Synapse Analytics involves the following steps:
By leveraging the power of Azure Synapse Analytics and pySpark, you can easily convert your CSV files to Parquet format, improving the performance of your data pipeline and reducing storage costs.
pyspark DataFrame
[https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/python/reference/pyspark.sql/dataframe.html]
pyspark.sql.DataFrameReader.load
pyspark.sql.DataFrameWriter
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In this article, we load a CSV file from an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account to an Azure Synapse Analytics data warehouse by using PolyBase.
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