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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

Creating your own dashboard on Azure Synapse

Before we can start creating our Power BI reports, we need to create our datasets to visualize the data through Power BI reports. So, we will divide this section into two subsections. First, we will learn how to create a new Power BI dataset in Azure Synapse and then we will learn how to create a Power BI report.

Creating new Power BI datasets

We need to add a Power BI dataset from a data source and publish it to Power BI to build reports in Azure Synapse Studio. We can add the dataset directly to the Power BI service or we can add a dataset to the Power BI Desktop version and then publish it to the Power BI service.

The following section comprises the steps for adding data from a sample Excel file from a local machine as a new dataset to the Power BI service.

Adding a dataset to the Power BI service

In order to add a new dataset to the Power BI service, sign in to https://powerbi.com and click on your workspace:

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