Exam DP-300 Topic 1 Question 285 Discussion

Actual exam question for Microsoft's DP-300 exam
Question #: 285
Topic #: 1
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You are building a database in an Azure Synapse Analytics serverless SQL pool.
You have data stored in Parquet files in an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 container.
Records are structured as shown in the following sample.

The records contain two applicants at most.
You need to build a table that includes only the address fields.
How should you complete the Transact-SQL statement? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.
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Explanation:
Box 1: CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE
An external table points to data located in Hadoop, Azure Storage blob, or Azure Data Lake Storage. External tables are used to read data from files or write data to files in Azure Storage. With Synapse SQL, you can use external tables to read external data using dedicated SQL pool or serverless SQL pool.
Syntax:
CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE { database_name.schema_name.table_name | schema_name.table_name | table_name } ( <column_definition> [ ,...n ] ) WITH ( LOCATION = 'folder_or_filepath', DATA_SOURCE = external_data_source_name, FILE_FORMAT = external_file_format_name Box 2. OPENROWSET When using serverless SQL pool, CETAS is used to create an external table and export query results to Azure Storage Blob or Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
Example:
AS
SELECT decennialTime, stateName, SUM(population) AS population
FROM
OPENROWSET(BULK 'https://azureopendatastorage.blob.core.windows.net/censusdatacontainer/release/ us_population_county/year=*/*.parquet', FORMAT='PARQUET') AS [r] GROUP BY decennialTime, stateName GO Reference:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql/develop-tables-external-tables

by Michell at May 06, 2025, 07:46 PM

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