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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 13: Managing and Monitoring Synapse Workloads

Microsoft Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) enables users to manage their resources on the cloud efficiently and with minimal effort. Azure Synapse Analytics provides you with a centralized experience to manage and monitor all the resources and workloads in your Synapse workspace.

In this chapter, we are going to learn how to manage pools, connections, pipelines, security, and source control, all in a single unified space – Synapse Studio. We will also learn how we can monitor different activities happening across the Synapse workspace.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter in order to understand how we can manage and monitor Synapse workloads:

  • Managing Synapse resources
  • Monitoring Synapse workloads
  • Managing maintenance schedules
  • Creating alerts for Azure Synapse Analytics