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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)

Enabling Azure Synapse Link and connecting Azure Cosmos DB to Azure Synapse

In this recipe, we will learn how to enable Synapse Link and connect Azure Cosmos DB to Azure Synapse. For large-scale analytics that provide high-scale performance without impacting on operational load, we recommend enabling Synapse Link. This helps to achieve HTAP capability for the Cosmos DB container.

Getting ready

Create a resource group called SynapseRG in the Azure portal.

How to do it…

We need to enable the features of Azure Synapse Link in the Azure Cosmos DB account and a linked service is required to connect to the Azure Cosmos DB database. Let's explore step by step how to enable Synapse Link in the Cosmos DB account by adding linked servers in Synapse Studio:

  1. Go to the previously created Azure Cosmos DB account from the Setting up Azure Cosmos DB analytical store recipe and select the Features settings. Select Azure Synapse Link.

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