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The Basics of KQL

I take a look at some basic KQL statements:

In order to query data, we need to use the Kusto Query Language, KQL. If you’re familiar with Splunk’s language, KQL is pretty similar. It’s just enough like SQL that it feels like you should understand it but not SQL-like enough that you’ll actually have an intuitive understanding of the language.

One quick note is that all KQL statements are case-sensitive. I personally consider this a mistake in a query language, but they didn’t ask me, I suppose. With that said, let’s get digging.

Seriously, case sensitivity in programming languages is an annoyance at best.