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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

Creating linked services

Linked services define the connection information needed for a Synapse pipeline to connect to an external data source. These linked services are not specific to any pipeline, but you can use the same linked service for multiple pipelines at the same time if they share the same data source.

In this example, we are going to create a linked service for Azure SQL Database (which is our data source), with Synapse as our target.

Before we proceed with the steps to create the linked service for the source and target, make sure you have met all the technical requirements outlined at the start of this chapter. Then, proceed as follows:

  1. Launch Synapse Studio by clicking on the Synapse Studio link on the Synapse workspace.
  2. Click on Linked services under the Manage tab, and click on + New to create a new linked service, as illustrated in the following screenshot:
    Figure 4.8 – Creating linked services in Azure Synapse

    Figure 4.8 – Creating linked services in Azure Synapse

  3. Select Azure Data Lake Storage...