Summary
This chapter concludes Part 1 of this book, which provided an introduction to Azure Synapse Data Explorer. By now, you should be able to describe Azure Synapse Data Explorer, navigate through the Azure portal to create an Azure Synapse workspace, find what you need in Azure Synapse Studio, create Data Explorer pools, load data, and even perform simple queries.
This chapter offered five blueprints that you can use today in your implementation of Azure Synapse Data Explorer. These examples were based on the author’s real-life experience and leverage formal solution architectures published by Microsoft in the Azure Architecture Center. They were adjusted to be built around Azure Synapse Data Explorer, with diminished dependency on external Azure services.
We started by breaking down the blueprint for a multi-purpose, end-to-end analytics environment. This is a generic blueprint that addresses most of the needs for analytical solutions that work with big data. Besides...