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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

Enabling the analytical store in Cosmos DB

You can enable Synapse Link on Cosmos DB directly from the Azure portal:

  1. Log in to the Azure portal at https://porta.azure.com.
  2. Go to your Cosmos DB account and click on Data Explorer.
  3. Click on the Enable link while creating a new container:
    Figure 5.1 – Enabling Azure Synapse Link on a Cosmos DB account

    Figure 5.1 – Enabling Azure Synapse Link on a Cosmos DB account

  4. You can click on the Features tab to verify whether Azure Synapse Link is enabled or not. You have the option to enable it from there as well if it is not enabled yet:
    Figure 5.2 – Verifying the status of Azure Synapse Link under the Features tab of a Cosmos DB account

    Figure 5.2 – Verifying the status of Azure Synapse Link under the Features tab of a Cosmos DB account

    Important note

    The analytical store can only be enabled for new containers.

  5. After you enable the analytical store, it creates a container with the Analytical Storage Time to Live property associated with the container. The default value is -1, which means infinite retention, however, we can change this value to any number of days and as many...