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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

Provisioning a Synapse Analytics workspace

Let's get straight to the point:

  1. Open a browser and go to the Azure portal.
  2. Open the portal menu if necessary and click on Create a resource.
  3. Select the textbox that currently reads Search the Marketplace and type Synapse Analytics, and then hit Enter.
  4. Click, in the list of tiles that fill the screen, on the tile that reads Azure Synapse Analytics.
  5. Click, on the page that opens, on the Create button.

    After clicking Create, you should see the page shown in Figure 8.4. Your screen might look different because Microsoft changes the layout of the Azure portal regularly. However, most options should be available:

    Figure 8.4 – Creating a Synapse workspace

    If you want to create a new Synapse workspace, there are a couple of settings you need to provide. You should recognize the subscription and resource group settings from when you provisioned a SQL database and when you provisioned Cosmos DB.

  6. Select your subscription...