How should you complete the query?

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You are building an Azure Stream Analytics job to identify how much time a user spends interacting with a feature on a webpage.

The job receives events based on user actions on the webpage. Each row of data represents an event. Each event has a type of either ‘start’ or ‘end’.

You need to calculate the duration between start and end events.

How should you complete the query? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area. NOTE: Each correct selection is worth one point.

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Answer:

Explanation:

Box 1: DATEDIFF

DATEDIFF function returns the count (as a signed integer value) of the specified datepart boundaries crossed between the specified startdate and enddate. Syntax: DATEDIFF ( datepart , startdate, enddate )

Box 2: LAST

The LAST function can be used to retrieve the last event within a specific condition. In this example, the condition is an event of type Start, partitioning the search by PARTITION BY user and feature. This way, every user and feature is treated independently when searching for the Start event. LIMIT DURATION limits the search back in time to 1 hour between the End and Start events.

Example:

SELECT

[user],

feature,

DATEDIFF(

second,

LAST(Time) OVER (PARTITION BY [user], feature LIMIT DURATION(hour,

1) WHEN Event = ‘start’), Time) as duration

FROM input TIMESTAMP BY Time

WHERE

Event = ‘end’

Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/stream-analytics/stream-analytics-stream-analytics-query-patterns