To add an input, click on the Inputs blade. It will display an empty screen, where you have two possibilities:
- + Add stream input: Here you can add a link to services that enable you to ingest a stream. Currently available Azure components are Azure Event Hub, Azure IoT Hub, and Azure Blob Storage. The inputs can live (or not) in the same subscription, and such a connection supports compression (so you can pass a compressed stream using, for example, GZip or deflate).
- + Add reference input: Instead of ingesting data from a real-time stream, you can also use Azure Blob Storage and add a reference to it, so you can ingest so-called reference data. In that scenario, Azure Stream Analytics will load the whole data into memory, ...
