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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 pipelines using samples

Synapse has provided various sample pipelines that can help you in building your production-ready pipeline in just a few steps.

We will go through the following steps to create pipelines using samples provided by Synapse:

  1. Go to the Integrate tab on the Synapse Studio screen.
  2. Go to the sample center by clicking on Browse samples, as highlighted in the following screenshot:
    Figure 4.31 – A screenshot of the Browse samples link under the Integrate tab in Synapse Studio

    Figure 4.31 – A screenshot of the Browse samples link under the Integrate tab in Synapse Studio

  3. You can see sample datasets, notebooks, and SQL scripts in the sample center. Let's try to use one of the sample notebooks. Go to the Notebooks section, select Getting Started with Delta Lake, and click on Continue. The following screenshot provides an overview of the sample center:

    Figure 4.32 – A screenshot of the sample center in Synapse Studio

    Figure 4.32 – A screenshot of the sample center in Synapse Studio

  4. On the next screen, you can see a preview of the notebook that you selected. Click on Next after going...