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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)

Chapter 9: MPP Platform Migration to Synapse

In this chapter, we will learn how to get started with the process of migrating a legacy data warehouse to a Synapse SQL pool using Azure Synapse Pathway. Customers are adopting modernized cloud data warehouses to leverage the advantages in terms of costs, agility, and managed services that are associated with the cloud. Migration to the cloud involves many challenges and requires careful assessment planning prior to migration. To guide us through this overwhelming migration process, it is essential to learn the following recipes for efficient migration:

  • Understanding data migration challenges
  • Configuring Azure Synapse Pathway
  • Evaluating a data source to be migrated
  • Generating a data migration assessment
  • Supported data sources for migration