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Create Windowed Aggregates in Azure Stream Analytics

Imagine you work at your local arcade hall: a cool environment with lots of vintage games and excited customers. Besides operating the machines and talking to customers, you are also the designated IT person. In that capacity, your boss has tasked you with writing a Stream Analytics query that calculates the hourly high scores for all games. After calculating them, you should write them to the company's Azure storage account. Once you have completed this task, you will then have to calculate the scores not once per hour, but every five minutes over the last hour.

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Level
Intermediate
Last updated
Sep 23, 2025
Duration
1h 30m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Create a Stream Analytics Job with an Input, Output, and Query

    You can download the load-generating script from the lab's GitHub repo.

  2. Challenge

    Start the Load Generator (Game Simulator) and Observe the Results
  3. Challenge

    Update the Query to Use a Different Windowing Function
  4. Challenge

    Observe the Impact of Changing the Window Type
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