Programmer productivity

One of the key features of Azure Stream Analytics is developer productivity, and it is driven a lot by the query language that is based on SQL constructs. It provides a wide array of functions for analytics on streaming data, all the way from simple data manipulation functions, data and time functions, temporal functions, mathematical, string, scaling, and much more. It provides two features natively out of the box. Let's review the features in detail in the next section:

• Declarative SQL constructs
• Built-in temporal semantics