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Learn Azure Synapse Data Explorer

By : Pericles (Peri) Rocha
Book Image

Learn Azure Synapse Data Explorer

By: Pericles (Peri) Rocha

Overview of this book

Large volumes of data are generated daily from applications, websites, IoT devices, and other free-text, semi-structured data sources. Azure Synapse Data Explorer helps you collect, store, and analyze such data, and work with other analytical engines, such as Apache Spark, to develop advanced data science projects and maximize the value you extract from data. This book offers a comprehensive view of Azure Synapse Data Explorer, exploring not only the core scenarios of Data Explorer but also how it integrates within Azure Synapse. From data ingestion to data visualization and advanced analytics, you’ll learn to take an end-to-end approach to maximize the value of unstructured data and drive powerful insights using data science capabilities. With real-world usage scenarios, you’ll discover how to identify key projects where Azure Synapse Data Explorer can help you achieve your business goals. Throughout the chapters, you'll also find out how to manage big data as part of a software as a service (SaaS) platform, as well as tune, secure, and serve data to end users. By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered the big data life cycle and you'll be able to implement advanced analytical scenarios from raw telemetry and log data.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Part 1 Introduction to Azure Synapse Data Explorer
6
Part 2 Working with Data
12
Part 3 Managing Azure Synapse Data Explorer

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: “To create or alter a new workload group, use the .create-or-alter workload_group command.”

A block of code is set as follows:

.alter-merge workload_group ['Engineering Department WG'] ```
{
  "RequestQueuingPolicy": {
      "IsEnabled": true
  }
} ```

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

az synapse kusto pool create --name "droneanalyticsadx" --resource-group "rg-AzureSynapse" --sku name="Compute optimized" size="Small" --workspace-name "drone-analytics"

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in bold. Here is an example: “To enable it, you must select the Enable option next to Double encryption using a customer-managed key, in the Security tab of the Create Synapse workspace wizard.”

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