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Azure Synapse Analytics Cookbook

By : Gaurav Agarwal, Meenakshi Muralidharan
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Azure Synapse Analytics Cookbook

By: Gaurav Agarwal, Meenakshi Muralidharan

Overview of this book

As data warehouse management becomes increasingly integral to successful organizations, choosing and running the right solution is more important than ever. Microsoft Azure Synapse is an enterprise-grade, cloud-based data warehousing platform, and this book holds the key to using Synapse to its full potential. If you want the skills and confidence to create a robust enterprise analytical platform, this cookbook is a great place to start. You'll learn and execute enterprise-level deployments on medium-to-large data platforms. Using the step-by-step recipes and accompanying theory covered in this book, you'll understand how to integrate various services with Synapse to make it a robust solution for all your data needs. Whether you're new to Azure Synapse or just getting started, you'll find the instructions you need to solve any problem you may face, including using Azure services for data visualization as well as for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions. By the end of this Azure book, you'll have the skills you need to implement an enterprise-grade analytical platform, enabling your organization to explore and manage heterogeneous data workloads and employ various data integration services to solve real-time industry problems.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Setting up Azure Cosmos DB analytical store

In this recipe, we will learn how to set up Azure Cosmos DB analytical store, which helps us to run near real-time analytical queries with operation data. CosmosDB is used as storage for real-time data and data that's near real-time, such as from IoT sensory devices.

Getting ready

Before we begin the recipe, create the resource group SynapseRG in the Azure portal.

How to do it…

We will create an Azure Cosmos DB account and learn how to set up the container in it. Let's get started:

  1. Log in to Azure portal: https://portal.azure.com/#home.
  2. Search for cosmos by using the top search bar on the Microsoft Azure page and navigate to Azure Cosmos DB.

Figure 4.3 – Search for Azure Cosmos DB

  1. Click on Azure Cosmos DB.

Figure 4.4 – Create an Azure Cosmos DB account

  1. Select Core (SQL) by clicking Create.

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