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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 12: Securing Data on Azure Synapse

Data is the new gold, so you have got to protect your wealth. Azure Synapse Analytics provides a relational database service for the cloud. Azure provides multiple security measures to access any data in Azure Synapse Analytics. However, it is important for the user to be aware of all these security measures and how to use them appropriately. In this chapter, we are going to learn about the different layers of security options provided by Azure Synapse Analytics. We will learn how to secure the network to protect our data, and the access management section will outline SQL authorization and Active Directory integration. We are also going to learn about some of the advanced features provided by Azure, including threat protection and information protection.

The following diagram represents the different layers of security surrounding customer data:

Figure 12.1 – Different layers of enterprise-grade security in Synapse

Figure 12.1 – Different layers of enterprise-grade security...