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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

Summary

So far, we have learned how to create linked services, datasets, pipelines, and triggers. We learned how can we use multiple activities together in a pipeline. We got a fair understanding of variables and parameters in Synapse pipelines. Synapse has provided the option to use sample pipelines, but it's important to learn how to use these sample pipelines—therefore in this chapter, we also covered how we can start using these.

Synapse supports various data stores and various ways to transform your data, but we could only cover a couple of transformations in this chapter. However, now that you are comfortable with Synapse pipelines, it will be easy for you to add any activity to the pipeline as per your business requirements. You can go to http://bit.ly/transform-data-on-synapse if you want to learn more about any specific activity.

We will talk about a couple of other activities throughout the book that will give you more clarity on Synapse pipelines.

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