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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 9: Perform Real-Time Analytics on Streaming Data

Azure Synapse has various built-in features that allow us to perform end-to-end analysis on our data. One of the best features is the integration of Azure Synapse with Azure Cosmos DB via Azure Synapse Link. It removes the pain of bringing data from transactional data stores to analytical data stores using an ETL tool. You can read more about this in Chapter 5, Using Synapse Link with Azure Cosmos DB. In this chapter, we are going to use this feature to learn how to perform real-time analytics on streaming data in Azure Synapse. We are also going to learn how to use Azure Stream Analytics jobs to copy streaming data from Event Hubs to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. There is also a brief section in this chapter on Azure Databricks. We will create a simple C# application to generate streaming data that will be ingested in a Cosmos DB transactional store, and finally, we will access this data in Synapse through the analytical store...