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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

Connecting to a Power BI workspace

Azure Synapse gives you the flexibility to connect to your Power BI workspace, which means you need to have your own Power BI workspace, or you must access the Power BI workspace to utilize this feature. Once you are connected to the Power BI workspace, you can view and modify your reports directly from the Synapse workspace. In this section, we are going to learn about working with Power BI reports within Synapse Studio.

We will perform the following steps to connect our Synapse workspace to the Power BI workspace:

  1. Go to your Synapse workspace and click on the Open Synapse Studio link, as highlighted in the following screenshot:
    Figure 8.1 – A screenshot of the Azure Synapse workspace highlighting the link to Open Synapse Studio

    Figure 8.1 – A screenshot of the Azure Synapse workspace highlighting the link to Open Synapse Studio

  2. In Synapse Studio, click on the Visualize tab on the Home page, as shown in Figure 8.2, or go to the Manage tab in Synapse Studio and then go to the Linked Services section to add a new linked service...