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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 5: Using Synapse Link with Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Synapse Link is a new feature added to create a link between Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Synapse. It enables you to run near real-time analytics on data residing in the analytical store of your Cosmos DB account. The analytical store and transactional store are kept in sync in a Cosmos DB account. The transactional store in Cosmos DB is optimized for transactional reads and writes whereas the analytical store is optimized for analytical queries. Synapse Link creates an integration between Cosmos DB and Synapse Analytics. In this chapter, we are going to learn how to enable an analytical store in Cosmos DB and how we can query data directly from this analytical store with Azure Synapse Spark.

We are going to cover the following topics in this chapter, which will help you learn about the concept of Synapse Link and how it can fulfill your business needs:

  • Enabling the analytical store in Cosmos DB
  • Data storage
  • Querying...