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Azure Data Engineering Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Nagaraj Venkatesan, Ahmad Osama
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Azure Data Engineering Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Nagaraj Venkatesan, Ahmad Osama

Overview of this book

The famous quote 'Data is the new oil' seems more true every day as the key to most organizations' long-term success lies in extracting insights from raw data. One of the major challenges organizations face in leveraging value out of data is building performant data engineering pipelines for data visualization, ingestion, storage, and processing. This second edition of the immensely successful book by Ahmad Osama brings to you several recent enhancements in Azure data engineering and shares approximately 80 useful recipes covering common scenarios in building data engineering pipelines in Microsoft Azure. You’ll explore recipes from Azure Synapse Analytics workspaces Gen 2 and get to grips with Synapse Spark pools, SQL Serverless pools, Synapse integration pipelines, and Synapse data flows. You’ll also understand Synapse SQL Pool optimization techniques in this second edition. Besides Synapse enhancements, you’ll discover helpful tips on managing Azure SQL Database and learn about security, high availability, and performance monitoring. Finally, the book takes you through overall data engineering pipeline management, focusing on monitoring using Log Analytics and tracking data lineage using Azure Purview. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build superior data engineering pipelines along with having an invaluable go-to guide.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Configuring auditing for Azure SQL Database

SQL Auditing is a process in which key activities or changes in the database are recorded not only for monitoring but also for compliance to global security standards. In the following recipe, we will configure an audit for Azure SQL Database to record the database activities, store the details in Azure Log Analytics, and verify the recorded data.

Getting ready

Create an Azure SQL database and a Log Analytics workspace, as mentioned in the Monitoring an Azure SQL database using the Azure portal recipe of this chapter.

How to do it…

  1. In the Azure portal, navigate to All resources | azadesqlserver | adeawlt. Find Auditing:

Figure 6.46 – Azure SQL Database Auditing

  1. Turn on Azure SQL Auditing. Enable Log Analytics. Pick the packtadesqllgw Log Analytics workspace, which was created in the Monitoring an Azure SQL Database using the Azure portal recipe of this chapter. Hit the Save...