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Limitless Analytics with Azure Synapse

By : Prashant Kumar Mishra
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Limitless Analytics with Azure Synapse

By: Prashant Kumar Mishra

Overview of this book

Azure Synapse Analytics, which Microsoft describes as the next evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse, is a limitless analytics service that brings enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics together. With this book, you'll learn how to discover insights from your data effectively using this platform. The book starts with an overview of Azure Synapse Analytics, its architecture, and how it can be used to improve business intelligence and machine learning capabilities. Next, you'll go on to choose and set up the correct environment for your business problem. You'll also learn a variety of ways to ingest data from various sources and orchestrate the data using transformation techniques offered by Azure Synapse. Later, you'll explore how to handle both relational and non-relational data using the SQL language. As you progress, you'll perform real-time streaming and execute data analysis operations on your data using various languages, before going on to apply ML techniques to derive accurate and granular insights from data. Finally, you'll discover how to protect sensitive data in real time by using security and privacy features. By the end of this Azure book, you'll be able to build end-to-end analytics solutions while focusing on data prep, data management, data warehousing, and AI tasks.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Basics and Key Concepts
4
Section 2: Data Ingestion and Orchestration
8
Section 3: Azure Synapse for Data Scientists and Business Analysts
14
Section 4: Best Practices

Chapter 7: Working with R, Python, Scala, .NET, and Spark SQL in Azure Synapse

Azure Synapse gives you the freedom to query data on your terms, by using either serverless on-demand or provisioned resources—at scale. You can query data directly in the Synapse notebook using PySpark, Spark (Scala), Spark SQL, or .NET for Apache Spark (C#).

Azure Synapse Studio notebooks support four languages. You can set the primary language in a notebook, as seen in the following screenshot; however, you can use multiple languages in the same notebook by using the correct language magic command at the beginning of a cell:

Figure 7.1 – A screenshot of a Synapse notebook highlighting various supported languages

Figure 7.1 – A screenshot of a Synapse notebook highlighting various supported languages

In this chapter, we are going to pick a couple of examples from the sample gallery provided within the Synapse workspace, to understand how to use different languages in a Synapse notebook. This chapter outlines the use of sample data and scripts...