Data Lake Storage Gen 2 is the best storage solution for big data analytics in Azure. With its Hadoop compatible access, it is a perfect fit for existing platforms like Databricks, Cloudera, Hortonworks, Hadoop, HDInsight and many more.
With the above settings, you only have a regular Storage Account. In order to get an ADLS out of this, you need to go to the advanced settings and enable hierarchical namespace.
Everything that you get in the end is pretty much the same that you get for a regular Blob Storage.
The only difference lays in the containers. You now have access management (read, write, execute) for each file :
You can add a user to a group :
You can also do the same at the container level :
You can also create folders :
Power BI can connect to ADLS in two ways.
- Get Data / Azure / Azure Datalake Storage Gen 2
You need the full url address for Azure Datalake Storage Gen 2. You will find it in the Endpoint section :
- Get Data / Azure / Azure Blob Storage
Just provide the name of the storage account. You can grab the key in the Access Keys section.
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