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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 4: Using Synapse Pipelines to Orchestrate Your Data

Bringing data to Synapse is definitely a first big step, but it's not the final destination. You still need to cross many hurdles on the way before you start adding any flavor to your data. A Synapse pipeline comprises datasets and activities, but the main advantage is that you can reuse the same dataset with various pipelines. Synapse supports various data stores and provides feasibility to transform your data without writing any code. In this chapter, We will learn how to create Azure Synapse pipelines to orchestrate your data.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Introducing Synapse pipelines
  • Creating linked services
  • Defining source and target datasets
  • Using various activities in Synapse pipelines
  • Scheduling Synapse pipelines
  • Creating pipelines using samples