Explanation
Graphical user interface, text, application Description automatically generated

Step 1: Assign a managed identity to Server1
You will need an existing Managed Instance as a prerequisite.
Step 2: Create an Azure key vault and grant the managed identity permissions to the vault Create Resource and setup Azure Key Vault.
Step 3: Add key1 to the Azure key vault
The recommended way is to import an existing key from a .pfx file or get an existing key from the vault.
Alternatively, generate a new key directly in Azure Key Vault.
Step 4: Configure key1 as the TDE protector for Server1
Provide TDE Protector key
Step 5: Enable TDE on Pool1
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/managed-instance/scripts/transparent-data-encryption-byok-pow

Explanation
Customer Scenario:
SQL Server 2016 or SQL DW connected to Azure blob storage. The CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE DDL points to a directory (and not a specific file) and the directory contains files with different schemas.
SSMS Error:
Select query on the external table gives the following error:
Msg 7320, Level 16, State 110, Line 14
Cannot execute the query "Remote Query" against OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI11" for linked server "(null)".
Query aborted-- the maximum reject threshold (0 rows) was reached while reading from an external source: 1 rows rejected out of total 1 rows processed.
Possible Reason:
The reason this error happens is because each file has different schema. The PolyBase external table DDL when pointed to a directory recursively reads all the files in that directory. When a column or data type mismatch happens, this error could be seen in SSMS.
Possible Solution:
If the data for each table consists of one file, then use the filename in the LOCATION section prepended by the directory of the external files. If there are multiple files per table, put each set of files into different directories in Azure Blob Storage and then you can point LOCATION to the directory instead of a particular file. The latter suggestion is the best practices recommended by SQLCAT even if you have one file per table.

Explanation
Instead use a tumbling window. Tumbling windows are a series of fixed-sized, non-overlapping and contiguous time intervals.
Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream-analytics-query/tumbling-window-azure-stream-analytics
Topic 1, Litware, inc.
Case study
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Overview
Litware, Inc. owns and operates 300 convenience stores across the US. The company sells a variety of packaged foods and drinks, as well as a variety of prepared foods, such as sandwiches and pizzas.
Litware has a loyalty club whereby members can get daily discounts on specific items by providing their membership number at checkout.
Litware employs business analysts who prefer to analyze data by using Microsoft Power BI, and data scientists who prefer analyzing data in Azure Databricks notebooks.
Requirements
Business Goals
Litware wants to create a new analytics environment in Azure to meet the following requirements:
* See inventory levels across the stores. Data must be updated as close to real time as possible.
* Execute ad hoc analytical queries on historical data to identify whether the loyalty club discounts increase sales of the discounted products.
* Every four hours, notify store employees about how many prepared food items to produce based on historical demand from the sales data.
Technical Requirements
Litware identifies the following technical requirements:
* Minimize the number of different Azure services needed to achieve the business goals.
* Use platform as a service (PaaS) offerings whenever possible and avoid having to provision virtual machines that must be managed by Litware.
* Ensure that the analytical data store is accessible only to the company's on-premises network and Azure services.
* Use Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication whenever possible.
* Use the principle of least privilege when designing security.
* Stage Inventory data in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 before loading the data into the analytical data store. Litware wants to remove transient data from Data Lake Storage once the data is no longer in use.
Files that have a modified date that is older than 14 days must be removed.
* Limit the business analysts' access to customer contact information, such as phone numbers, because this type of data is not analytically relevant.
* Ensure that you can quickly restore a copy of the analytical data store within one hour in the event of corruption or accidental deletion.
Planned Environment
Litware plans to implement the following environment:
* The application development team will create an Azure event hub to receive real-time sales data, including store number, date, time, product ID, customer loyalty number, price, and discount amount, from the point of sale (POS) system and output the data to data storage in Azure.
* Customer data, including name, contact information, and loyalty number, comes from Salesforce, a SaaS application, and can be imported into Azure once every eight hours. Row modified dates are not trusted in the source table.
* Product data, including product ID, name, and category, comes from Salesforce and can be imported into Azure once every eight hours. Row modified dates are not trusted in the source table.
* Daily inventory data comes from a Microsoft SQL server located on a private network.
* Litware currently has 5 TB of historical sales data and 100 GB of customer data. The company expects approximately 100 GB of new data per month for the next year.
* Litware will build a custom application named FoodPrep to provide store employees with the calculation results of how many prepared food items to produce every four hours.
* Litware does not plan to implement Azure ExpressRoute or a VPN between the on-premises network and Azure.

Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/data-flow-conditional-split