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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

Managing maintenance schedules

As soon as the SQL pool deployment is completed, SQL pools have an 8-hour primary and 8-hour secondary maintenance window applied by default. During this maintenance window, all the patch updates will happen internally, and you may not be able to access your resources for the time being. You will be notified when the maintenance job is complete so that you can resume your work after that. Thus, you need to make sure that the maintenance schedule is out of your regular business hours. In order to change the maintenance schedules, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to your Synapse workspace in the Azure portal.
  2. Click on SQL pool and select your SQL pool.
  3. Select the Maintenance schedule link on the Overview blade to open the page for maintenance schedule settings.
  4. Select Primary maintenance window and Secondary maintenance window settings as per your business requirements and then click on Save to save your changes.

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