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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

Scheduling Synapse pipelines

Azure Synapse pipelines allow you to run your pipeline just once or trigger it manually whenever you need to run it. However, Synapse pipelines enable you to schedule the pipelines to run at regular intervals as well.

With Synapse pipelines, it's just a matter of a few clicks to schedule your pipeline. The following instructions will help you in scheduling your pipeline:

  1. Go to the Triggers page under the Monitor tab in Synapse Studio and click on + New at the top of the screen, as illustrated in the following screenshot:
    Figure 4.27 – A screenshot of the Triggers page in Synapse Studio

    Figure 4.27 – A screenshot of the Triggers page in Synapse Studio

  2. Provide a name and description for your trigger. It's better to keep your pipeline's line appended to the trigger's name so that in the case of any failure it will be easy to identify the corresponding pipeline. The fields are shown in the following screenshot:
    Figure 4.28 – Creating a trigger for the Pipeline_Gen2_Synapse pipeline

    Figure 4.28 – Creating a trigger for the Pipeline_Gen2_Synapse pipeline...