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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)

Configuring Azure Synapse Pathway

Azure Synapse Pathway is a code translation tool that helps with the migration of legacy on-premises data warehouses to Synapse. It helps with automating the code translation of on-premises data warehouses to Azure Synapse and aids quicker migration. Azure Synapse Pathway understands the data migration challenges between Synapse and on-premises data warehouses and assists in the translation of data definition language (DDL) and data manipulation language (DML) into T-SQL. It supports the code translation of databases, tables, schemas, and views.

Azure Synapse Pathway is a free tool that is used for automated data warehouse migration. Azure Synapse Pathway supports the automatic translation of schemas, tables, views, and functions from Amazon RedShift, Google BigQuery, IBM Netezza, SQL Server, Snowflake, and Teradata Data warehouses into T-SQL-compliant SQL code to Azure Synapse.

It is a proven tool for significantly reducing migration costs by...