From the course: Microsoft Azure Data Engineer Associate (DP-203) Cert Prep by Microsoft Press

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Configure the batch size

Configure the batch size

- [Narrator] Now from out of left field, the Exam DP-203 goes into Azure Batch. And that's actually exciting because I want you to be aware of as many of these Azure services as possible not only to help you pass your Exam DP-203 but also to make you the most proficient you can be in the real world as possible. Azure Batch is, I like to define it as a specially configured virtual machine skillset that you use to simplify large scale parallel and high performance computing batch jobs. Think of, in my industry, as a technical trainer, I may have a whole bunch of video clips that I've produced and I now need to batch them out to different resolutions and streaming optimizations and so forth. That's just an example from my particular industry. I'm sure you can think of other repetitive jobs that you would want to put on a schedule, specifically in a batch processing way, not even necessarily with ETL and ELT, just any kind of scot…

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