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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)

Enumerating resources within Synapse Studio

In this recipe, you will learn how to integrate Azure Purview with an Azure Synapse workspace for data discovery and exploration. You will understand how you can browse the Azure Purview data catalog within Azure Synapse Studio. You will also learn how data lineage is tracked and understand the detailed coverage at different levels of data preparation, such as data transformation, data extraction, and data loading from source to destination.

The integration between Azure Synapse and Azure Purview will give you a seamless experience for data governance and data exploration.

Getting ready

Before we begin, ensure you have met the following prerequisites:

  • You have dedicated SQL pool available in the Synapse workspace.
  • You have the right permission to link an Azure Purview account to the Synapse workspace.

How to do it…

Let's go back to the same Synapse workspace as we will be working on Synapse Studio...