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Data Modeling for Azure Data Services

By : Peter ter Braake
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Data Modeling for Azure Data Services

By: Peter ter Braake

Overview of this book

Data is at the heart of all applications and forms the foundation of modern data-driven businesses. With the multitude of data-related use cases and the availability of different data services, choosing the right service and implementing the right design becomes paramount to successful implementation. Data Modeling for Azure Data Services starts with an introduction to databases, entity analysis, and normalizing data. The book then shows you how to design a NoSQL database for optimal performance and scalability and covers how to provision and implement Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Synapse SQL Pool. As you progress through the chapters, you'll learn about data analytics, Azure Data Lake, and Azure SQL Data Warehouse and explore dimensional modeling, data vault modeling, along with designing and implementing a Data Lake using Azure Storage. You'll also learn how to implement ETL with Azure Data Factory. By the end of this book, you'll have a solid understanding of which Azure data services are the best fit for your model and how to implement the best design for your solution.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Section 1 – Operational/OLTP Databases
8
Section 2 – Analytics with a Data Lake and Data Warehouse
13
Section 3 – ETL with Azure Data Factory

Chapter 8: Provisioning and Implementing an Azure Synapse SQL Pool

Azure Synapse Analytics is an integrated environment used to create data analytics platforms at scale. The SQL pools of Synapse Analytics are an ideal platform to implement star schema analytical databases at scale.

In this chapter, you will learn about Synapse Analytics. You will implement a star schema database using Synapse SQL pools. The following topics will be explained:

  • Overview of Synapse Analytics
  • Provisioning a Synapse Analytics workspace
  • Creating a Synapse SQL pool
  • Implementing tables in Synapse SQL pools
  • Understanding workload management
  • Using PolyBase to load data
  • Connecting to and using a dedicated SQL pool