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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)

Evaluating a data source to be migrated

In this recipe, we will learn how to work with Azure Synapse Pathway and get started with using it for data source migration.

Getting ready

Before we begin, you'll need to do the following preparation:

  1. Extract .SQL files from your legacy data warehouse and download them to your system's folder. If you are in experimentation mode to learn how Azure Synapse Pathway works, you can download Microsoft SQL Server's sample data warehouse from the following link and keep the .SQL DDL/DML files ready in your system folder: https://github.com/microsoft/sql-server-samples/tree/master/samples/databases/contoso-data-warehouse.
  2. Copy the contents of load-contoso-data-warehouse-to-sql-data-warehouse.sql into a notepad and save it as contoso.sql in your system folder.

Let's now start to use the Azure Synapse Pathway tool.

How to do it…

Let's open the Azure Synapse Pathway tool and keep the .SQL files...